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Saturday, October 19

Dessert oasis: second sweet spot for Rundle St after East End exodus

South Australian franchise St Louis House of Fine Ice Cream and Dessert will replace the shuttered Max Brenner store on Rundle Street – the second dessert café to open in the East End since an exodus of chocolate shops from the precinct last year.

Rundle St San Churro re-opens, betting on “light at the end of the tunnel”

Rundle Street dessert café San Churro has re-opened, eschewing the exodus of chocolate shops from the East End in 2018 – but its new owners say a 20-storey apartment tower, to be constructed next-door in the New Year, poses an existential threat.

A for lease sign has been erected above Steven ter Horst Chocolatier. Photo: Steph Richards / InDaily

Choxit: the East End's last chocolate shop set to close

Steven ter Horst, the last remaining chocolatier on Rundle Street, will follow Cocolat, Max Brenner and San Churro out the East End’s proverbial door, InDaily can reveal.

New Rundle St casualty as San Churro closes

Rundle Street dessert café San Churro has gone out of business, becoming the third chocolatier to vacate the East End street this year.

Max Brenner's Adelaide chocolate bar closes

The Max Brenner chocolate bar on Rundle Street will close for good at 5pm today following a national store-by-store review by the Australian business’s recently appointed voluntary administrators.

Chocolate chain Max Brenner Australia collapses

The Australian arm of international chocolate chain Max Brenner, which opened an Adelaide store in Rundle Street just under two years ago, has gone into voluntary administration.

Sugar Man Patisserie’s chocolate renaissance

After a brief hiatus, Adelaide baker Alex Crawford (AKA Sugar Man) has moved on from macarons and turned his inventive approach to flavour towards a line of chocolate blocks.

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Choxit: the East End's last chocolate shop set to close

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