Unbrave Eats: Hot Chocolate at the City Bakery
Sure, it meant paying crazy money to stay at a hotel in Manhattan.
But, hey, you only live once, right?
At least I really hope you only live once. Because, seriously, you guys, after this lifetime, I won’t be able to afford reincarnation.
When I woke up my last morning in North Carolina with a scratchy throat, it started to seem like kind of a bad idea.Two long distance bus rides later, I arrived in New York City at midnight with a full-blown sniffly, sneezy, phlegm-filled head cold.
And the idea of running around New York City for a day when I could be at home napping and staring at a Toddlers and Tiaras marathon started to feel like the worst idea I’d ever had.
And I’ve had some pretty bad ideas, guys. Remember? Like this one. And that one. And, oh yes, how can I forget this one? So it’s not like it didn’t have some competition.
But I was ready to fight fire with fire.
Or, as the case may be, to fight phlegm with Vitamin C.
My first stop in New York was the pharmacy where I stocked up on everything with a picture of an orange on the label.
Make me better, fake orange stuff!
And by “serious medical action” I mean “hot chocolate.”
What did you think I meant?
Ooo, with a chocolate room! I want a chocolate room!
The City Bakery is apparently the place to go for hot chocolate in the city. Or at least that’s what the Google told me.
The café was big and airy and bustley and packed full of New York City people doing their New York City things. Like the couple who was sitting next to me, who spent thirty minutes saying the F-word and eating croissants. This is what New Yorkers do, you guys. They talk like sailors and eat flaky pastries. I should probably move there.
At the counter, all the baristas wore scrub hats like you see the doctors on medical dramas wear. And while they couldn’t legally administer drugs, they could administer chocolate, so they were practically medical professionals.
Get your drugs… err, chocolate, right here.
The hot chocolate was rich and thick. And the homemade marshmallow served with it was so dense and huge that I needed a spoon to cut it in half before I could shovel it into my face.
Besides, aren’t you supposed to feed a cold and starve the flu?
Or is it starve a cold and feed the flu?
Heck, I wasn’t even sure if I had a cold or the flu or some other phlegm-manufacturing virus.
So I decided to just feed it.
Whatever it was.
Because starving seems like the worst medical advice ever.
Especially when there are flaky pastries to be had.
It’s cold and flu season, people, how do you like your chocolate? (Yes, these two things are TOTALLY related.)
You had me at Hot Chocolate. You so had me.
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Haha not sure I would go for a dairy product while trying to combat phlegm, but chocolate is always a good spirit-lifter, so you gotta pick your battles, I suppose
I’m a fan of super rich hot chocolate, the ones you almost have to scoop with a spoon. yum!
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Ooo, this would have been your stuff then. Super thick. It was like tomato soup… but without the tomatoes… or the soup.
YAY! Luckily I’m in NYC right now. I’m going to have to stop by!
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Do it!
Awww I literally ate there almost every day for 4 years when I was in Grad School. My school was right across the street!!!
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OMIGOD. I could never study across from that place. I’d never get any studying done. Only eating!
Jealous. Green with envy. This is exactly my cup of tea…err…I mean my cup of chocolate. Thanks for helping me decide what I’m having for breakfast tomorrow. Homemade hot chocolate and a hot chocolate muffin! Yes, just perfect.
Hot chocolate muffin? That exists? I NEED IT.
Add a shot of Bailey’s to that hot chocolate – that’s my kind of medicine!
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Mmm… sounds delicious. I’ve also discovered something called Rumchata (like Bailey’s but cinnamony flavored) that goes GREAT with hot chocolate.
Hot chocolate is a much better idea than my idea of hot whiskeys in Dublin a few weeks ago. Seriously, they only made me drunk, and probably more sick – which wasn’t pretty sight, but at least for a while I thought I was better!
Maybe add hot chocolate to the whiskey?
I’m totally adding this to my, “places to gorge myself silly whilst in America” list. I need some more stuff for the North. The South currently has everything north of Virginia beaten by a mile.
Bring on the hot chocolate and gargantuan marshmallow.
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And pretzel croissants! So sad I didn’t know about them before I went there.
I had hot dark chocolate with Irish whisky this week, was heavenly!
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That sounds delicious. And like the perfect cure for EVERYTHING.
I think this warrants your investigation:
http://www.wendywrites.com/2013/01/whoopie-pie-giveaway/#.UP8bN2eWaSo
After all, free pie.
Yes, yes, it does.
Hot chocolate whether sick or well HAS to happen. ALWAYS. Totally going there now.
Put it on my list of NYC things to do.
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