Los Angeles is rarely frigid, but when days are short and the occasional chill hits, a steaming hot chocolate mug sure is soothing. You just need to know where to look. Be ready with my favorite Los Angeles hot chocolate, listed alphabetically.
UPDATES SINCE MARCH 8, 2013
Additions: Cafe Santo, Chocolate Dispensary, ChocoVivo, Gusto Bread, Mignon Chocolate, Milla Chocolates
Subtractions: ChocolateBox Cafe (CLOSED), Coffee + Milk (CLOSED), Jin Patisserie (CLOSED), Taza (CLOSED)
Cacao Mexicatessen Hot Cacao – Eagle Rock ↓
Café Santo Chocolate Nuez – Montebello ↓
Chocolate Dispensary French Drinking Chocolate – Echo Park ↓
ChocoVivo Hot Chocolate – Culver City ↓
Churros Calientes Chocolate Caliente – West LA ↓
Cognoscenti Coffee Hot Chocolate – Culver City, Downtown + Fashion District ↓
Demitasse Hot Drinking Chocolate – Santa Monica ↓
Guelaguetza Oaxacan Hot Chocolate – Koreatown ↓
Gusto Bread Xocolatl – Long Beach ↓
Intelligentsia Hot Chocolate – Hollywood, Pasadena, Silver Lake + Venice ↓
Mignon Chocolate Hot Chocolate – Glendale + Pasadena ↓
Milla Chocolates – Culver City ↓
Blog Comments
LA CANVAS :: THE SCOOP: GREEDY FOR CHOCOLATE
July 9, 2013 at 4:27 PM
[…] Creek Rd, Malibu, (310) 456-7977, chocolateboxcafe.com Photo credits: Let Them Eat Cake, HuffPo, FoodGPS, Grub […]
tazacoffeehouse
March 8, 2013 at 5:20 PM
We’re super excited to be with such great company! Thanks FoodGPS!!
Btw, we use Straus Barista milk for all our cocoa’s too.
thx
Joshua Lurie
March 8, 2013 at 5:32 PM
tazacoffeehouse, your place on this list was well deserved. That’s cool to know that you use Straus. See you soon.
Andrew P
March 8, 2013 at 4:06 PM
Awesome list! We desperate need this for LA’s northerly cousin, San Francisco, where it IS cold enough to consider this as an option every day.
Joshua Lurie
March 8, 2013 at 4:48 PM
Andrew, glad you like the hot chocolate round-up. Thanks. If you were going to create a version for San Francisco, which spots would you include?
Josh
March 8, 2013 at 2:18 PM
Tiago coffee bar makes a delicious burnt caramel ganache hot chocolate in Hollywood. Thanks for the list.
Joshua Lurie
March 8, 2013 at 2:38 PM
Josh, thanks for the suggestion. You’re actually the second person today to mention Tiago’s hot chocolate. Burnt caramel ganache sounds awesome.
DK
March 8, 2013 at 12:02 PM
Lady chocolatt on wilshire and bundy makes amazing creamy thick hot chocolate that will make you blissfully high with chocolate rush to the head
Joshua Lurie
March 8, 2013 at 12:53 PM
DK, thanks for the tip. Funny, when I was doing my hot chocolate research, I was writing across the street at Literati Cafe and wondered about Lady Chocolatt, but they were already closed for the night.