

The dining room, replete with red tufted banquette seating, crystal chandeliers and antique brass accents, will seat 160 guests, with some additional seating in the outdoor dining area.

Where else can you have a King Kong Sundae that includes 24 scoops of ice-cream and also a smoking candy goblet cocktail?” “We are thrilled that they are opening at Mall of America as their first Minnesota location. “Going to Sugar Factory is not just eating a meal but instead a confectionary experience with your family and friends,” said VP of Leasing Carrie Charleston. Completing the confectionary shop, the café will offer coffees, hot chocolate, frozen hot chocolate, homemade specialty rainbow doughnuts and pastries, in addition to homemade gelato and ice cream. Here are five examples of just how far Sugar Factory is taking its commitment to over-the-top dessert indulgence.Sugar Factory’s Mall of America retail confectionary will feature the signature floor-to-ceiling candy wall with more than 500 types of sweet treats, including a selection of novelty and bulk candy like the brand’s world-famous Couture Pops. We have salad, salmon, vegan options, so it’s definitely a very inclusive menu … and then we take it too far.” “Sugar Factory is for the indulgence,” she said. How does Scott respond when people question how a menu like this fits in with modern-day health hype?

(That would be the strawberry milkshake that’s garnished with a mini bacon cheeseburger, Chavarria’s favorite item on the menu.) But who’s going to put a cheeseburger on top of a milkshake?”

“It’s definitely something that you want to eat and nothing you’ve eaten before,” she said. The food she gets to make at Sugar Factory, she says, is more fun. We’re bringing something different, something a little sweet, something over-the-top, something for the whole family.”Īssistant corporate pastry chef Adriana Chavarria worked in fine dining before joining the company a year ago. “For Wisconsin and Minnesota, you have pretty much everything. “The wow factor is what we strive for,” said Connie Scott, general manager of the MOA location. There is a constant line of customers waiting to get in. The restaurant on the third floor of the mall is dripping with crystal chandeliers, mirrors, roses, neon lights spelling out “Beautiful,” and a row of televisions that light up a neighboring candy store with flickering images of various Kardashian-Jenners posing behind (but not eating) an ice cream sundae the size of an infant. Watch past videos of a nearly 2-foot-long quesadilla and a deep-fried burger at /outtacontrol.
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Welcome to a Sugar Factory edition of Outta Control, the Star Tribune’s series featuring over-the-top foods in the Twin Cities. When the only fresh thing in sight is a banana that has been covered in sugar and brûléed with a blowtorch, when a chef asks someone for cherries to top a sundae and is handed two pieces of gummy fruit, when a burger served between two doughnuts comes with a grilled cheese where the lettuce should go, you might as well leave all your resolutions behind at Lululemon. And there’s no better home for its supersized sweets than our supersized mall. The national chain - which originated in Las Vegas and became a celebrity magnet by asking stars to collaborate on designer lollipop sticks - has arrived at the Mall of America. In this age of health and wellness, of vegan butchers and thigh-hugging athleisure, where does a place like Sugar Factory belong?
