Six Spots to Get Your Hot Chocolate Fix
Best places to enjoy a rich and comforting winter favorite
Photo by Paris Creperie
Six Spots to Get Your Hot Chocolate Fix
Best places to enjoy a rich and comforting winter favorite
Despite your New Year’s resolutions to eat and drink healthier after a goodie-filled holiday season, Bostonians may need an excuse to enjoy a steaming cup of hot chocolate to brave their frigid temperatures.
First considered a food of the gods by the Maya in 900 AD, cocoa was originally made with chili peppers and water. Today you can indulge in the classic beverage in a variety of flavors—including spicy, fruity, and dairy-free—to keep warm and lift the winter blues.
Whether you prefer your hot chocolate with whipped cream or marshmallows, you can warm up at these shops and cafés not far from campus.
1. Beacon Hill Chocolates
91 Charles St., Boston
Beacon Hill’s luxurious Hot Cocoa Truffle combines creamy marshmallow flavor and a smooth milk chocolate ganache for a perfect cold weather treat. If you want a more sophisticated option, the Puffin Hot Cocoa Truffle features a Latin American chocolate blend and homemade marshmallow fluff to shelter you from the cold Boston wind.
2. L. A. Burdick
220 Clarendon St., Boston
South American and Caribbean cocoa beans are used to make dark, milk, and white hot chocolate with L. A. Burdick’s famously thick consistency. This is like drinking melted chocolate—in other words, pure heaven.
3. Caffe Vittoria
290-296 Hanover St., North End, Boston
Ideally situated right next to Mike’s Pastry, this cash-only family café offers a classic Italian-style cup of hot chocolate topped with whipped cream. Because the drink is deliciously sweet, each sip is as rich as the last.
4. Flour Bakery + Cafe
Various locations; check here
You may find the vanilla aroma of the Fiery Hot Chocolate misleading—the special addition of cayenne pepper packs a kick. For those who prefer their beverage without the kick, Flour also offers traditional dark hot chocolate steamed with milk or a plant-based alternative made with a vegan dark chocolate ganache.
5. The Paris Creperie
278 Harvard St., Brookline
Nutella lovers should check out the signature Nutella Chocolate Drinks (a steamed nutella and milk blend), available in mint or raspberry and as hot chocolate or a latte. If you’d like to cool down, opt for a frozen hot chocolate, made with frozen yogurt instead. And for the winter season, the Hot Cookie Butter White Chocolate with an in-house cookie butter syrup is ideal.
6. Café Bonjour
55 Temple Place, Downtown Boston
On the lookout for an early morning bite? This French all-day breakfast café serves plant-based and gluten-free sandwiches, crepes, and hot cocoa. The signature hot chocolate, topped with the adorable whipped cream designs, has no added sugars—perfect for even the chocolate-lover purist.
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