Best Hot Chocolate In Dublin?

Mr. Fancypants

So, where do you think makes the best hot chocolate in Dublin? My 2 favorites at the moment are Butlers Chocolate Cafe (Hot Chocolate with Caramel Syrup MMmmmmmm) even though i dont think their chocolates are the best, and Australian Ice Cream place as they make lovely hot chocolate out of their belgian chocolate ice cream. Ohhhh, i want one now!

WizZard

Butlers is gorgeous!!! Where is this Australian place you mention. I need to try it!!

salubrious

best hot chocolate comes from heavenly in temple bar square

Blisterman

How do you make hot chocoalte out of ice cream?

Mr. Fancypants

Australian is on the corner of Liffey St right by the Luas tracks. Has some fantastic ice cream too. I recommend the passionfruit sorbet!

Lorcan26

not sure about dublin but my aunt got some fairtrade hot chocolate once, and its the nicest ive ever had.

herobear

dont know about the nicest, but the cheapest is in cafe moccha on south william street, 1.80 euro last time i was there, very nice too

Alanna

Question, there is a type of Italian hot chocolate that is really thick(thickened with potato starch), actually I think that you get it in Spain too served with churros (fab sugary donuts), it's devine! It is avaiable in some places in London and Carluccios cafes actually sell the powder, but is it available anywhere in Ireland?

rob1891

Alanna wrote:

Question, there is a type of Italian hot chocolate that is really thick(thickened with potato starch), actually I think that you get it in Spain too served with churros (fab sugary donuts), it's devine! It is avaiable in some places in London and Carluccios cafes actually sell the powder, but is it available anywhere in Ireland?

There is this type of chocolate in the Wedel shop in Warsaw! Also in a really nice ice cream parlour near an underground station I can't remember. MMMMmmmm. It has about a million calories and comes in an expresso cup (right?).

Anyway, you can make it yourself with melted butter (probably unsalted) and cocoa powder, I don't know the measurments, probably sugar too ... I will contact a friend who made it for me once. If it's not the same as your italian chocolate ... well, who cares, it's lovely anyway!

Crash

re: the italian hot chocolate, theres a place in temple bar called "Joy of coffee" which does something that sounds quite similar, very very thick hot chocolates, one of them is a torincino hot chocolate, theres something about almonds, honey and chocolate all at once that is just teh win

Shrimp

Butlers Irish Chocolate Café <<< :D:D:D

snappieT

Absolutely definately Café Aroma in the GPO Arcade off Henry Street

Zaph

La Corte in the IFSC and the Epicurean Mall in Abbey Street might do the Italian hot chocolate. As well as being sandwich bars/coffee shops, they have a reasonable range of Italian foodstuffs. Their hot chocolate is pretty good too, but the best has to be Butlers.

CuLT

What a surprisingly useful thread 0_o .

Too bad I'm limited to DCU's Nescafé machines...

Milkman Dan

best hot chocolate, by a very long way, butlers chocolate cafe. mmmmnnn hmmmnnn.....

:rolleyes:

yum.

also, coffee society on liffey street. yumzers.

Blisterman

Costa in london do great hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows. Big ones, which is a nice change.

Chick

the chocolate bar in roches stores, henry st... they actually have chocolate SOUP....sooooo good!

rob1891

rob1891 wrote:

Anyway, you can make it yourself with melted butter (probably unsalted) and cocoa powder, I don't know the measurments, probably sugar too ... I will contact a friend who made it for me once. If it's not the same as your italian chocolate ... well, who cares, it's lovely anyway!

If your interested, 50% butter, 50% sugar, cocoa powder to taste (start off with 1 tablespoon per 50g of butter say). Don't let the butter boil, heat gently and slowly, mix in the sugar & cocoa. Use small amounts so you don't waste too much (or drink too much). It's really just a chocolate syrup for, say, icecream, but you know the best thing to do with syrup is to ditch the icecream and gorge on it alone

goin'_to_the_PS

gingerbread man in crk

Mutz

Mmm - would never have thought to go for hot chocolate in dublin. Seems my horizons are broadening!

Good thread!

APM

anyone think cafe sol do a nice hot choc?

David19

Mutz wrote:

Mmm - would never have thought to go for hot chocolate in dublin. Seems my horizons are broadening!

Good thread!

I was thinking the exact same thing! I must sample some next time I'm in the city centre.

trotter_inc

I was in the Butlers Chocolate café in the shopping centre of Dublin airport - got some hot chocolate there that was gorgeous, you get some free chocolate with it too

memphis

What are the Options packets like? I see em advertised on TV alot lately!

trotter_inc

memphis wrote:

What are the Options packets like? I see em advertised on TV alot lately!

I like the mint one - not too keen on the rest - much prefer the Cadbury's hot chocolate.

*Angel*

Try Gloria Jeans 'tis yummy

trotter_inc

*Angel* wrote:

Try Gloria Jeans 'tis yummy

Where / what's that?

*Angel*

Clarendon Street, at front of Powerscourt centre

eclectichoney

APM wrote:

anyone think cafe sol do a nice hot choc?

have to say i cafe sol but never had the hot choccie, id be interested to know if it was good.

b3t4

Butlers by far have the best hot chocolate. I will even localise it to the little butlers take out place at the end of Grafton Street near Stephens Green. One hot chocolate, a good book and sit down in the Green, hmm.

Gloria Jeans would have to be second.

A.

Capt'n Midnight

Bewleys <sob>

tSubh Dearg

I think the best hot chocolate award has to be shared between Butlers, Gloria Jeans and Australian. Each has a different taste and texture but each is good in it's own way. I just Love that Australian's is made of ice cream, Butler's has that slightly tarter taste and Gloria Jean's is just so creamy. the major plus ppoints for Butler's though is that they'll put whipped cream on the top (so sinful) and they give a free chocolate with it.

mmmmmm....think i need hot chocolate now!

mobile04

my bird makes great hot choc. with the cadburys tin and mixes it with a coffee she gets in some shop to give it a little kick very nice .
all invited..lol. its a hint of ciniman coffee

Deadwing

tSubh Dearg wrote:

I think the best hot chocolate award has to be shared between Butlers, Gloria Jeans and Australian. Each has a different taste and texture but each is good in it's own way. I just Love that Australian's is made of ice cream, Butler's has that slightly tarter taste and Gloria Jean's is just so creamy. the major plus ppoints for Butler's though is that they'll put whipped cream on the top (so sinful) and they give a free chocolate with it.

mmmmmm....think i need hot chocolate now!

Gloria jeans!!!

trotter_inc

b3t4 wrote:

Butlers by far have the best hot chocolate. I will even localise it to the little butlers take out place at the end of Grafton Street near Stephens Green. One hot chocolate, a good book and sit down in the Green, hmm.

Gloria Jeans would have to be second.

A.

I didnt realise there was one on grafton street - it was my first time in the one in the airport - was so nice!

trotter_inc

mobile04 wrote:

my bird makes great hot choc. with the cadburys tin and mixes it with a coffee she gets in some shop to give it a little kick very nice .

This is probably more like mocha then is it?

Gossip_girl

For me it's gotta be beetween Butler's and the Australian place. The free chocolates really push it over the edge so Butler's if I had to pick. In the summer Marks and Spencer do really good iced hot chocolates. It's bassicly a hot chocolate gone cold with chocolate chips, flakes, syrup and loads of whipped cream. Totally sinful but yummy none the less. Tried the options things and they're okay. The best is defenitley the mint or orange one imo.

trotter_inc

Gossip_girl wrote:

The free chocolates really push it over the edge so Butler's if I had to pick.

Their chocolates are gorgeous!! Parents got about 4 boxes of them as presents over xmas - didnt last too long - God they're good!!

ronano

So a while ago i was reading this thread and it's stuck in my head but i could only remember butlers hot choc so there i am with a friend on abbey st. and the onlyt place i can recall a butlers is up beside trinity. We go all the way for the hot choc and are walking past henry st. AND THERE IT IS! so out of some thinly veiled fu(pfffft) i went in and bought another one(that really got them!!) needless to say i was stuffed for the day. Lovely Hot chocolate but at the same time i expected better and when they're backs are turned i always put my hand in the jar for one more chocolate.

I've made a list of places to try so yes HOT CHOCS AT THE WEEKEND

ok sorry

mobile04 wrote:

my bird makes great hot choc. with the cadburys tin and mixes it with a coffee she gets in some shop to give it a little kick very nice .
all invited..lol. its a hint of ciniman coffee

She is a keeper

luckat

If you want to make really good hot chocolate, get a bar of Bourneville - the big bar, not the little one - and break it up into warm milk, then bring it to hot, but not boiling, stirring all the time. Pour and drink. Mmm. If you want a sharp bite on it, whizz it up a bit, and sprinkle some cocoa powder (not chocolate powder, but the straight cocoa) over the top.

deedee lepoopoo

The Best place in Dublin for Hot Chocolate is The Winding Stair on the quays beside hapenny bridge. Flake, cream the whole she-bang.

To make yer own hot chocolate I'd advise using cocoa as it is the real mccoy and mix in bournville & hot milk. yum yum.

squaredog

APM wrote:

anyone think cafe sol do a nice hot choc?

Definitely, I love their hot chocolate, the milk stays lovely and frothy in it.

idontknowmyname

Butlers hot choc without a doubt, real choc shavings and go with the added cream option, expensive though at €2.60

rob1891

had the hot chocolate at the Ranelagh farmers' market, got to say it was pretty good only on Sundays though.

Yoda

Make it at home. A heaping spoonful of Cadbury's powder (not the drinking chocolate). Pour on half a cup of boiling water, stir. Heat half a cup of milk, optionally with a dash of cream, in the microwave. Pour that on. Add sugar to taste. Add a dash of cayenne pepper. Heaven.

legofsalmon

Heavenly in TempleBar square is currently my fav... marshmellows and cream.... but I only ever get marshmellows cause then I eat them individually with those stirrer things while it cools cause I don't like my tongue burnt

Also someone mentioned it about the fairtrade hot chocolate....... and it really is the nicest hot chocolate mix EVER....... I cannot stress the sheer gorgeousness of it.... I have no idea where we got it, just that it was there one day and it was the best EVER!!!.......

I'll have to try butlers sometime now thanks peoples

Mysteryfish

The Hot chocolate in Avoca in town is Delicious, and so is the one in a place called Queen Of Tarts, also in town.

The best homemade hot chocolate is definetely the Fairtrade chocolate, in a league of its own! I advise you to add a bit of Horlicks malt to your hot chocolate and it will make you go right to sleep.

I don't think anyone can really say where the best hot chocolate in Dublin is because everyone likes different tastes of hot chocolate. So someone might think cinnamon hot chocolate is the best, but i don't like cinnamon so i don't. Get my point? And it's also really up to the time of day, the weather on the day, your mood, and the day of the week.

ronano

Ok so where do i get this fairtrade hot choc then?

Mysteryfish

Anywhere really. In Superquinn or Oxfam shops. Anywhere they sell fairtrade things.

ronano

Mysteryfish wrote:

Anywhere really. In Superquinn or Oxfam shops. Anywhere they sell fairtrade things.

thank you

Mysteryfish

You're welcome. Anything to help feed peoples chocolate addictions.