Every time my Mom visits Paris she orders hot chocolate (chocolat chaud) in every cafe we go to, and loves that it is not overly-sweetened the way it is in the US. While it still can (and does) use some added sugar, the quality is pretty universally improved from the Nestle hot-cocoa-mix-grade stuff we get back home. Which is why I am a bit disappointed in myself as a daughter/tour guide at having only discovered the well-known Angelina cafe earlier this week, when I met up with another new mom who had her baby a few weeks before Oliver was born. Yes, Angelina's is a tourist spot - but it also has a very well-deserved reputation for serving excellent hot chocolate and equally-delicious pastries (most notably the Mont Blanc). The hot chocolate is served thick and warm in a small pitcher, to which you pour in your cup with your desired amount with fluffy whipped cream. I am not normally a dessert person, but this stuff is seriously good.
It reminded me of the hot chocolate they serve in Italy, which you literally eat with a spoon it is so thick, but it is apparently considered "African" hot chocolate as it is made from cocoa from Niger, Ghana and the Côte d'Ivoire. Angelina 226 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Open every day Nearest metro: Tuileries
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