Jacques Torres

Went to Brooklyn for the weekend and 2 chocolaterias!
Apparently Jacques aka Mr. Chocolate has a chocolate factory on Water St! Par a self declared chocolate addict friend of Mainefish's reccommended it to us. This morning we had Pain au Chocolat. It was good but not better then any other high quality chocolate croissant. The hot cocoa was great. It was thick on top, I kept waiting to finish the this top layer and it lasted all the way to the botton; the whole thing was that thick. It wasn't one of those dark, gooey tazas de chocolate, like the chanticos Starbucks has. It was creamy and we got the spicy variety. There were little solid things you could chew on in the cocoa. I asked the cashier and she said it was pieces of the chocolate mix. I think she was wrong, because if it were chocolate it would have melted. I think it was nibs or the spices. I pulled one out and it was a light brown/orangish color. Anyway, good. As were the prices- we bought a box of 12 of the bon-bons. The ones we ate tonight were chocolate mint tea, fresh lemon, Alize passion, and a mystery one. I think the Alize passion fruit one was my favorite. We've got PB&J, earl grey, dirty martini (with the olive flavor), port, and sereval others to get into!

To get the chocolate home, someone's car doesn't have air conditioning, it was 90 today and a 6 hour drive- we stopped at Shop Rite bought a styrofoam cooler and a bag of ice. We set the chocolates on that and they mostly held up all the way back home. We ate the ice along the way to keep coooool.