CQ Stop #9: Max Brenner

Max Brenner
Price: $4.95
Texture: 3.88 out of 5
Chocolate Quality: 3.69 out of 5
Cookie Composition: 3.44 out of 5
Overall Rating: 3.46 out of 5
11th Best Cookie

Assorted Comments: "Too thick and meaty. I would like my brisket and chicken separate from my dessert. I did like the shaved chocolate appetizers" -Naomi Huth "Thick cookie but not too dense -- lots of smaller chocolate chips scattered throughout; somewhat wet, + walnuts" -Emily Young "HUMONGOUS" -Ryan Seit "Soft / gooey, slight crisp; only chocolate aftertaste, not salty (nut was nice touch, after all -- pine?)" -Lien Tran

Serious Eats #9: Max Brenner, 841 Broadway
Okay, we don't love Max Brenner's always-mobbed chocolate palace on Union Square. But, as Ed wrote, "This is one solid chocolate chip cookie." Though far too large to scarf in good conscience, it had basically everything we looked for in a cookie. "Crisp exterior, moist center, perfect balance." "Hint of spice, but not overpowering." "Enough salt! Thank goodness!" But just like Petrossian, while some loved the "cookie stuff action," others found it too overloaded.