Hot chocolate, some of it spiked
7 places · best Nov–Feb
Cold hands around a hot mug. Castle’s is made with Abuelita, the Mexican chocolate a lot of us grew up on, and Heatwave and Curious Toast top theirs with marshmallows they make themselves. The last two are cocktails.
Castle Coffee
The Chocolatito is a cortado sweetened with Abuelita chocolate and dusted with cinnamon and clove: the hot chocolate you grew up on, with espresso in it.
Heatwave Coffee
On the winter menu, every hot chocolate and mocha gets a house-made marshmallow, toasted until the top turns golden and crunchy.
Curious Toast
Hot chocolate with a homemade marshmallow melting on top. Add cherry, or a shot of espresso.
Trifecta Coffee
They temper their own chocolate here, by hand. The winter menu has a peppermint hot chocolate, next to a biscochito latte.
Blackbird Coffeehouse
The Blackbird is espresso, dark chocolate and New Mexico red chile, a little heat under the sweet. Skipping coffee? Get the Blackbird hot chocolate, on a fountain patio tucked inside Old Town’s Patio Market.
Daydream Rum Bar
The Mocha Champurrado is drinking chocolate layered with liquor and served hot, in a rum bar hidden up the stairs inside Little Bear Coffee.
Winter menu.
The Copper Lounge
The Verte Chaud is green Chartreuse stirred into spiced cocoa, herbal and warm, under amber light.
Winter cocktail menu.