It’s officially the holiday season in New York City! As the year winds down and the city gets lit with holiday lights, you may find yourself feeling joyous. With the semester coming to an end, students often feel overwhelmed with finals and forget to enjoy the holiday season in one of the most festive cities in the world! One way to boost your morale and get in the holiday spirit is by grabbing a warm cup of hot chocolate. While the coffee shops and bakeries in the city are endless, and you may not know where to start, The Pace Press has the perfect guide for you to check out the best places to get hot chocolate.
Amorino (Greenwich Village, Manhattan)
Amorino is a popular café and gelato spot with multiple locations throughout Manhattan. Though their gelato is their specialty, they also have a thick hot chocolate in the Italian tradition that tastes like warm chocolate pudding. You can have it like an affogato, with the gelato flavor of your choice, plain or with whipped cream. Store locations include Greenwich Village, Upper West Side and Midtown Manhattan.
The Chocolate Room (Cobble Hill, Brooklyn)
The Chocolate Room is a Brooklyn dessert shop serving wine, beer and coffee with a menu focused mostly on chocolate. Every dessert they serve is created in-house, from scratch, with premium ingredients like Valrhona chocolate. They have four distinct flavors, each created with a special combination of sugar, cocoa powder and chopped chocolate. The flavors offered include classic hot chocolate, dark hot chocolate, spiced dark hot chocolate, white hot chocolate and Café Torino- hot chocolate with a shot of espresso in it. For further information on these blends’ ingredients, along with the pricing, visit their virtual menu.
MarieBelle (SoHo, Manhattan)
Founded in 2001, this prestigious store is nestled in the heart of SoHo, serving as a haven for all those who adore the exquisite delicacies that have come to define the MarieBelle brand. They offer a range of hot chocolate flavors with notable ones including milk chocolate, white chocolate with Tahitian vanilla, spiced hot chocolate and hazelnut. The store also offers whipped cream with the drink for an additional charge. For those who are in a hurry, or prefer to drink their hot chocolate at home, they also sell their hot chocolate blends in the store. This is the perfect place to visit while holiday shopping in SoHo!
Sugar Hill Creamery (Central Harlem, Manhattan)
Although their ice cream is their specialty, Sugar Hill Creamery also makes delicious hot chocolate throughout the holidays! Made with milk, cream, 64% dark chocolate from Guayaquil, vanilla ice cream and torched homemade marshmallow fluff. They have several locations throughout Harlem along with a location in Brooklyn at the Time Out Market. With their rich hot chocolate and wide variety of ice creams and treats, this is a great place to satisfy your sweet tooth.
Brooklyn Farmacy and Soda Fountain (Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn)
A few varieties of hot and frozen cocoa are available at this quaint vintage soda fountain and ice cream shop. While they offer the classic flavors, other notable specialty flavors include smores, milk and cookies, salty caramel and more. You can top these rich and flavorful drinks with whipped cream or a toasted marshmallow which is gelatin free! To view their hot and frozen chocolate options, along with their costs, browse their website. Brooklyn Farmacy and Soda Fountain is a unique store with a rich history, dating back a century, and is worth visiting to broaden your palate!
