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Ok,
Tell me where you have had the best hot chocolate.
Mine was in Paris, France. A place called Angelinas. Not sure about this spelling.
However, its liteally melted chocolate that you drink and it comes with thick whipped cream in a side bowl that you spoon in your mug.
SSOOOOO GOODDD!!!!

MarieBelle's Aztec Hot Chocolate/Jacque Torres' Wicked Hot Chocolate (they're basically the same.... ssshhhh don't tell). Rich melted chocolate with bits of chile and cinnamon. Daaaammmnnn.

Or the spicy hot cocoa at the Cocoa Bar. That has a touch of ginger in it.

Those are all in New York. This is why they sell those I <heart> New York tshirts. Because of the plentiful hot cocoa resources here.

The best hot chocolate I have ever had was at Pat's Steaks in Philadelphia. An odd place to get hot chocolate? Maybe, but it was great. It also helped that it was super cold outside.

I'm not much into hot drinks. I don't drink hot tea or coffee -ever. But, if I had to drink hot chocolate, it would be Nestles Quik in milk.

Ooooh, Jacques Torres! Death by chocolate at that place will send you straight to heaven. Good thing for non-New Yorkers that he sells his goodies online.

The tourist in me also has to nominate the frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity for honorable mention. Yummmmmmm...

Oh, and don't forget Payard Patisserie on Lexington. They have an amazing cup of cocoa plus it's also a little bistro where you can nibble between sips.

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Originally posted by braslvr:
But, if I had to drink hot chocolate, it would be Nestles Quik in milk.

Your post pains me braslvr.

La Paz, Bolivia. Don't know if was the best ever, but after being on the road for a while a little boiled milk with a chunk of chocolate thrown in, it sure was good.

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Originally posted by christina-in-brooklyn:

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Originally posted by braslvr:
But, if I had to drink hot chocolate, it would be Nestles Quik in milk.

Your post pains me braslvr.

I figured it would.

On top of Stowe Mountain after riding up a chairlift in -60 windchill.

...is when you add a shot of Baileys to it. Esp. the new mint-flavored Baileys. Yum.

ooo, Soma's in the distillery district of Toronto, so thick with a touch of hot chilli, makes my mouth water.

two places thus far:

here in BA, I am obsessed with submarinos, where they give you a glass of hot milk and a chocolate bar to drop in and mix it into the perfect combination. I want to bring the submarinos chocolate home with me.

the other is at the chocolate buffet at the metropole in Hanoi, Vietnam. They just melt it there for you in a copper pot and give you sweet cream to mix in....yummmy!

There's a coffee shop in Pisa, Italy on the main street to the Field of Miracles with tons of small patio tables in front of it, about half a mile from the Field of Miracles. Their hot chocolate is essentially the strongest richest chocolate you can imagine melted in a cup. So good. I can't remember the name of the place, but definitely veer from the touristy area and check this place out.

Oh dang, I can't remember the name of the place, but the best hot chocolate I had was in Florence, Italy. It was about $7USD for a cup.

http://www.rivoire.it/locale.asp
I believe this is the place

I went to both Rivoire and this place in Pisa, and the Pisa hot chocolate was way better and much less expensive. But Rivoire was pretty good too.

butlers hot chocolate in Ireland- yum!

handmade Irish chocolate- just the right amount of sweetness. The best thing in the winter!

Best ever was after a joyously sleepless night with my girlfriend in Xalapa, Mexico, at a little tienda near the government palace.

Best for me was in Panama, in the roadless land of the Naso. I had lunch with a Naso family that fermented, dried, and roasted their cacao seeds themselves, and then mixed them with sugar and boiling water. It tasted like they added cinnamon and chili, but they didn't; it was just the natural flavor of their organic cacao. Yummy.

Theres a little cafe on the southern most end of Hatteras Island out on the Outerbanks. On cold autumn days when its so foggy just being outside you get wet enough to think its raining, and dew beads up on everything... Walk out and watch the ferry disappear in the fog on the way out to Ocracoke island, across the inlet.

The waves are crashing a hundred yards away over the dunes, but sound a lot farther... the whole place is covered in dew. Walking the docks is serene, when the wind dies down the mist just hangs everywhere the water is gray and hasn't a ripple.

I'm not entirely sure if its the best hot chocolate, or just the best location!