Barcelona
June 18 – 19, 2007
Barcelona
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There’s a lot of chocolate here, partly because the 18th century port welcomed ships containing chocolate cargo. It therefore had and still does, chocolate factories and chocolate stores. Some of the chocolate factories do not have their own stores, such as Blanxart.
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Again, there are many opportunities for hot chocolate with churros or just churros alone.
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Or, chocolate milk
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with a yummy chocolate shop, featuring chocolate from all over Europe,
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and selling rich, hot chocolate made with Valhrona chocolate, without rice flour thickening. |
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The city also features Petrixol street with a reputation for several chocolate shops for drinking and several candy establishments, full of local folks.
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The Dulcinea café owner proudly identified himself in these photos for us. The café offers three hot chocolate options, plus the cold chocolate milk—a regular thick, hot chocolate, a French hot chocolate which is less thick and the Swiss, a Spanish hot chocolate with whipped cream. Here you can order the hot chocolate with lady fingers, melindros.
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Nearby—the Bobo Bar, written up in The New York Times, with trendy food, drinks and a next door sweets/chocolate store.
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Caelum, also in the old quarter, with ancient baths (Roman? some say Jewish mikvaot? who knows?) in the basement, serving treats from local monasteries and convents, titled in the menu, Monastic Sweet Temptations, listed by convent or monastery name, including some with chocolate. |
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