WOW!! I am so in LOVE with this place! Cacao is the ultimate chocolate shop that serves the best "Drinking Chocolate" ever!!
What is drinking chocolate you say?
" Hot chocolate is (once again, technically speaking) what many call "drinking chocolate" or "sipping chocolate" - it's made from chopped bits of chocolate or small chocolate pellets that are melted (slowly and painstakingly) and then blended with milk, cream and/or or water. True hot chocolate tends to be much denser and richer than its powdery relative." Hot Cocoa vs. Drinking Chocolate
Your typical hot cocoa is made with powder.
They have 3 flavors of drinking chocolate available at $2 a shot, $4 a standard or a flight of 3 for $6:
- Rivoli dark drinking chocolate - 72% Arriba dark chocolate blended with milk and cream (slightly bitter)
- cinnamon infused drinking chocolate - 38% Venezuelan milk chocolate and 65% Venezuelan dark chocolates infused with organic cinnamon blended with milk and cream
- special spicy dark drinking chocolate - 72% Arriba dark chocolate infused with cayenne pepper, smoked paprika, and ginger, blended with milk, cream, and coconut milk
2 flavors of hot chocolate (a drinking chocolate base with cocoa and a little sugar, then frothed with the espresso steamer)- everyday hot chocolate - 65% Venezuelan dark chocolate blended with milk
- dark hot chocolate - 72% Arriba dark chocolate blended with milk
And a whole bunch of local and small production chocolate from all over the world
So if you love chocolate, which why else would you be reading this, and you are in the Portland, Oregon area
I suggest you start with a flight of all 3 drinking chocolates and while waiting browse the store for a little something special to take home for later. My favorite looking treats are the tins of chocolate sardines (have not tried them yet) and the gold flaked Ganesha Elephant God
from Alma. And I've hear if you are really nice they will let you sample anything they have in the back.
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