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If Marie Antoinette were alive today, we’re pretty sure her motto would be, ’treat yourself’ and, in the midst of a long Calgary winter, we feel the the woman’s attitude is correct. Our hot chocolate is the embodiment of decadence – the flavours of white chocolate, house-made cherry compote, velvety mascarpone whipped cream, and graham cracker crumble will conjure the richness of your favourite cheesecake, allowing you to have your cake and drink it, too.

This hot chocolate is $7.50 and it is a sweet hot chocolate. This is a white chocolate made with cherry compote with a mascarpone whip and it has graham cracker crumb on top. It kind of tastes like a cheesecake, I wish it would have had a better cherry flavour. The location in Arts Commons had a great vibe and since it was lunch it was very busy there.

If you like sweet hot chocolates, then this is the hot chocolate for you. It was sweet but had some really good flavour.

When a delicious hot chocolate gets into a relationship with a dessert, you know you are in for a real treat. This smooth dark hot chocolate is created from cocoa beans located on the Sambirano River’s plains in Madagascar & gently mixed with Alberta organic milk. The final touches are the homemade raspberry whipped cream placed on top and a handmade marshmallow sphere with a surprise inside: it is filled with raspberry coulis! Bon appetite!

This hot chocolate is $9.00 and it was disappointing unfortunately.  It was a very chocolatee flavoured hot chocolate, with the whip on top raspberry flavoured. The marshmallow was filled with raspberry coulee which was more like raspberry jam. The hot chocolate itself was very thick, it was like drinking thick liquid chocolate, it was way too thick for us. The raspberry whip was tart, which is fine, but again too heavy for whip. The mix of the chocolate and whip was an odd flavour profile, we felt it didn’t blend for a pleasing flavour on the tongue.

We didn’t like this hot chocolate at all, it was way too thick to even enjoy.

Back by popular demand- our S’mores Hot Chocolate! We’ve refined our recipe to include velvety Valrhona dark chocolate with a graham cracker crumb rim and house made iceberg- we mean marshmallow! This campfire classic take on a hot chocolate will definitely leave you wanting s’more.

This hot chocolate is $7.00 and has one of the biggest marshmallows we have seen so far. This is a very pretty drink and it tasted really good, but we didn’t get the s’more flavour. The chocolate used is homemade by the Alforno bakers and a homemade marshmallow. It was very delicious.

Hot Chocolate Affogato & Cointreau. Orange you glad this isn’t some boring hot chocolate? Our velvety hot chocolate is infused with cointreau liqueur, poured over dark chocolate and vanilla bean soft serve and topped with homemade almond orange biscotti.

This hot chocolate is $11.00 and had one of the best biscotti I’ve had in a while. This is a very delicious cold hot chocolate, made with Alforno’s homemade soft serve ice cream. It has 1 oz of one of my favourite alcohols Cointreau. This hot chocolate is very delicious and even though it is cold, it is absolutely amazing.

We also tried their Cinnamon Bun ($5.00), Tiramisu Cup ($6.00), and a slice of Pistachio Plum Mousse Cake ($5.00). Everything was absolutely amazing, the flavours were delicious.

Heat up this February with our Cocoa Mexicano! Velvety Ghirardelli dark chocolate with homemade cinnamon syrup and just the right amount of spice with a sprinkle of chilli!

This hot chocolate was $5.00 and it has very interesting flavours. The baristas were very friendly and very polite.  This hot chocolate smells like chili. The hot chocolate was very hot temperature wise, and the spice also gave it some heat as well. The flavours were very intense  and once the chili melted into the hot chocolate, it tasted a little better.

It is sad to say that the flavours don’t blend as well as we thought they would. Unfortunately,

not my favourite. 

Our Real Chocolate x Milk features the 2018 International Chocolate Awards Canada and Americas regional gold medals winner, the 70% Tumaco Colombia dark chocolate, ethically sourced and locally hand crafted from bean to bar by Kin + Pod, completed with AB local, traceable, ethical and organic milk by Vital Green Farms, carefully steamed to create the desirable fluffy texture and integrate perfectly to make a rich, creamy and flavourful hot chocolate. Our goal is to let these top-notch ingredients speak for themselves.

This hot chocolate is $7.50 and has the most creamy chocolate flavour. It has so much chocolate it was delicious, it was so good, it was creamy. They use Kin & Pod chocolate which is delicious, mixing that with Vital Green Farms milk, brings the combination to a great end. It is very creamy, very chocolatey, and very goody.  This is a MuST HAVE!!

We are pleased to say that the owners, Kitty and Caleb, created this beverage.

Ever wonder what the epitome of happiness is? We’ve found the answer. The blend of chocolate, peanut butter and honey topped with (or without) whipped cream and mini Reese cup will touch the parts of your soul you didn’t know were there. The heavenly combination will transport you to paradise and complete euphoria.

This hot chocolate is $5.95 and this was absolutely delicious. When you are drinking this it tastes like you just ate a reese peanut butter cup. This hot chocolate is so good, as long as you like peanut butter.

The owner came up wit this hot chocolate and we found out that the beverage has been very popular with the visitors.

Cookie dough infused steamed chocolate milk, topped with chocolate whipped cream, house made chocolate drizzle, topped with mini chocolate chip cookie, and extra chips for good measure.

This hot chocolate is $5.85 and was absolutely amazing. This hot chocolate tastes just like a cookie, it was a hot chocolate infused with cookie dough syrup topped with whip and cookie crumples. The hot chocolate is sweet but very good.

This hot chocolate was created by one person at Sauce.

Creamy dark chocolate, rich butterscotch, steamed milk, topped with whipped cream, fleur de sel, butterscotch drizzle and caramel popcorn.

This hot chocolate is $5.00 and it was really good. We unfortunately had to wait a while for our drinks since they were behind on the orders. The whip cream was from a can, which was a disappointment, the popcorn kernel on the top was also a little soggy on one but the other one we ordered was fine.

Our signature chai tea is infused with creamy 1883 Chocolate Sauce, topped with whipped cream, a chai macaron, and a light dusting of powdered chai.

This hot chocolate is $6.00 and it was just ok, not personally one of our favourites. It was a very sweet hot chocolate. The hot chocolate infused tea was pre-mixed with the chocolate sauce, so it was not made for you from scratch when you order it. This hot chocolate tastes very watered down, but I believe that is because it is a tea infused hot chocolate. The chai macaron was a nice addition to the drink.

The front manager and owner came up with this beverage. With all the flavours that are available,  we thought it would have been a better hot chocolate.