Real Hot Chocolate

Mariebelle
484 Broome St, Between Wooster Stand West Broadway



     I see "hot chocolate" on menu at cafe when the winter comes. I often order hotchocolate, but I've never been satisfied with cafe's hot chocolate. When they say hot chocolate they actually mean "hot cocoa." They mix cocoa powder with milk, so it tastes like cocoa I make at home. My definition of hot chocolate is that "hot chocolate has to have taste of exactly chocolate." Therefore, I didn't like to order hot chocolate and to be disappointed with its taste.
     However, when I came to New York, I found real "hot chocolate" at Mariebelle. There are many types of hot chocolate there, such as Aztec, Spicy and White chocolate. I was surprised that their hot chocolate had rich and thick taste. It tasted just like drinking chocolate.
     You can choose hot water or milk to mix with chocolate. I like to mix with hot water so that I can enjoy the taste of chocolate. You can also buy hot chocolate powder at their shops and on their website. I have a can of chocolate powder and sometimes make hot chocolate. However, I prefer to enjoy the atmosphere of their cacao bar.

     After I met Mariebelle's chocolate, I visited other cacao bar, such as L.A. Burdick and Max Brenner, and tasted their hot chocolate. I like Mariebelle the most but other cacao bars also have real "hot chocolate." So, I decided that I would have hot chocolate only in cacao bar. Milk should not be added. It is the best way for me to enjoy hot chocolate.

     The weather gets colder recently. However, I'm glad that I can enjoy hot chocolate.

Artopolis Espresso

I happened to find this café when I went to the city. It’s on Amsterdam Ave. and close to Columbia University. It looked very pretty from outside of café. It was almost closing time when I got in the café, but there were many customers in there. There were many cakes and tarts in the show window.

I found this chocolate cake in the show window. It looks like a balloonfish. I think it’s difficult to eat but this is so cute! Other cakes also all looked delicious.

I ordered another chocolate cake.

This cake was awesome!! It’s the best chocolate cake I ever had in the city. You can enjoy not only its visual design but also its taste. Coffee came with a piece of cookie. I like that service too.

It’s been a while since I went there but I can’t forget about the tastes of the chocolate cake. I want to go there again.

Artopolis Espresso

10901 Amsterdam Ave. New York, NY 10025

Check out their website, and you’ll see more pictures of cakes and other desserts.

Curry Chocolate

L'atelier Du Chocolat
59W 22nd Street, New York, NY

This store has curry flavor (the lower right in the picture above). You probably can’t imagine how it tastes like.

I like curry but I didn’t think curry and chocolate are good combination.

However, it didn’t taste like spicy curry. It tastes of chocolate basically. I tried other flavors such as pistachio, sea salt, and coffee flavor, but I like curry chocolate best.

When I went to L’atelier du Chocolat, the shop staff was a Korean woman. I talked to her and then found out she used to live in Osaka, my hometown, for 4 years. It was funny that she speaks Japanese with the Osaka accent.

This store has many interesting flavors besides curry chocolate, like wasabi, ginger, and saffron. I wonder how wasabi chocolate tastes like.

L.A. Burdick

L.A. Burdick @ 5 East 20th street, NYC

I had chocolate cake named "L.A.Burdick" because it's the same as the name of the cafe.

The cake is relatively small

But it’s delicious.

The middle of layers is like Mille-feuille.

They sell chocolate bars and you can take out them too.

I found Halloween chocolates on L.A. Burdick website.

They look so cute

I want to try them before Halloween!

Taste of Autumn

The autumn has come.

Then, you should go to Delightfully Delicious at Madison Square Park Market.



Delightfully Delicious @ Madison Square Market

5^th Ave. b/w 23^rd and 24^th St.

From September 25^th to October 23^rd 



I happened to find this shop when I was walking down the street.

It was a tiny shop but had many kinds of sweets such as chocolate brownies, hot chocolate, and apple tarts.

I bought an Autumn Mousse which the lady at the shop recommended.

It was the double layerd mousse with pumpkin and chocolate.

I don’t like pumpkin so I was dubious about its taste.

But at the moment I tasted Autumn Mousse, I admitted I was wrong.

It tastes of chocolate at first, but then you realize the taste of pumpkin.

It’s not too sweet and the texture is smooth.

I love it!

Unfortunately, the mousse crumbled too much to take a picture because I kept it till I went back home.

I should have had it soon after I had bought it…

Taste was still good though the shape was pretty bad.

Delightfully Delicious at Madison Sq Park will be closed on October 23^rd.

So, hurry up and try the taste of autumn!

This shop is originally located on 200 Central Park South according to its website, but I’m not sure if they have same menu as shop at Madison Sq does.

Kee's Chocolate

I love chocolate.

I eat chocolate everyday
and I like to find new chocolate shops, chocolate flavors.
I look for new chocolate shops everytime I go to the City.

Kee's Chocolate is one of my favorite chocolate shops.

there are many mysterious flavors in Kee's
green tea,sesami,and chili sesami.
especially, I like their Sesami chocolate!

today, I tasted Chili Sasami too.
It's also good but spicier than I thought.
It might be too spicy if you don't like spicy.

I saw the guy at the shop.
He told me he liked Kee's chocolate and
was going to buy 100 pieces!

I was lucky to get chocolates before he came.

He probably bought almost all chocolate they had.