The weekend before Christmas we went on a hot chocolate crawl. We were in SoHo and only hit up 4 places throughout our day of window shopping. We contemplated going to more, City Bakery (a favorite) and/or Jacque Torres (another, more local, favorite), but really, four (!!!) hot chocolates in one day was plenty. We were in a cocoa comma.
Also, We passed a Grom as well and turned that down since we had recently been there (and had taken half home, and sipped it for days...it really is a melted bar of chocolate! Yummm!)
Hmmm...City Bakery...I think I know what we are doing today!
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| Balthazar Better than Starbucks but not as good as the stuff we make at home. |
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| Vosges Different flavor than I've had before. It was good |
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| Mariebelle Mairebelle was our first experience with gourmet hot chocolate when we moved to the city. We have had it several times and, unfortunately, it's not consistent. Sometimes it is out of this world and I get a bit of a buzz from it (I'm serious). But other times it's too thin and lacking in richness. |
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| Van Leeuwen We happened to pass the truck and noticed they had hot chocolate (I love their ice cream). It was, surprisingly, very different. It was very sweet and must have had amaretto syrup in it. It had an undertone of a yummy waffle cone. (Is that amaretto?) Good, but different. |
And, I realized, as I wrote this, we have drunk a lot of hot chocolate in this city during our several years here. I'll have to post more of our hot chocolate adventures.
I really want to try the hot chocolate from La Maison du Chocolate. Their truffles are heavenly!
