[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] Today marks the seventh day of City Bakery's 19th Annual Hot Chocolate Festival and we're celebrating with a hot cup of Earl Grey Hot Chocolate. It's significantly thinner in consistency when compared with the classic...
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The
Hot Chocolate ($4) at
Peels has a pudding-like consistency, almost rich enough to rival
City Bakery.
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[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] La Maison du Chocolat offers two types of hot chocolate. The first is made with milk chocolate, sweet and vanilla-kissed, but it is the latter, the Caracas, which best highlights their chocolate in liquid form....
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[Photo: Kathy Chan] Coffee is the draw at the first New York location of Blue Bottle Coffee in Williamsburg, but don't forget—there's Hot Chocolate ($3.50). With milk steamed to order, it's made with the same precision as any of...
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[Photo: Kathy Chan] The Hot Chocolate found at Tarallucci e Vino ($4) is the kind you can drink everyday. Neither too thin nor too thick, it comes completely unsweetened. No cream, no marshmallows. There is sugar, if you prefer,...
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Cold enough for you? Stop by City Bakery all this month for the Hot Chocolate Festival, with a different flavor each day. This week: Lemon Hot Chocolate today, Monday; Chili Pepper Tuesday; Chinese Cinnamon Wednesday; Espresso Thursday; Ginger Friday. Drink...
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[Photo: Kathy Chan] Though there's much joy to be found in extra-thick hot chocolates (City Bakery and Shake Shack, to name just two), the sort of hot chocolates I return to time after time are the ones of thinner...
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All the polls! Cold, rainy, windy, sleety, miserable—it's hot chocolate season in the city. And we're lucky to live in a place with dozens of throat-coating options. From the thick, festival-worthy hot chocolate with homemade marshmallows at City Bakery to...
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[Photo: Kathy Chan] It's not snowing yet, but already I'm all excited for winter-y desserts: warm fruit cobblers, mulled cider, and of course, endless mugs of hot chocolate. And to accompany those mugs of hot chocolate? Marshmallows, of course....
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[Photo: Kathy Chan] I had a meeting scheduled at Macaron Cafe the other afternoon. After a breakfast and lunch consisting of too many sugary desserts, the thought of macarons had me queasy. But I discovered in Macaron Cafe's Chocolate...
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