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If you've got an adventurous palette, this place offers exquisite chocolates and fine ice creams with plenty of exotica on the side. Sure, you can get pure chocolate -- and it's heavenly -- but you might be tempted by bacon and caramel ice cream or black mushroom truffles. The coffee is brilliant, too.
Xococava, located down an unassuming pedestrian mall near Yonge and St. Clair, is not your typical fancypants chocolate shop. This is punk rock mad science chocolate. I'd been excited to check it out ever since I heard rumours that they have been making a chorizo sausage chocolate truffle. Meat desserts have been a bizarre trend in cuisine lately, but even then it takes a certain kind of insane... more
Best: house-made truffle assortments like Spanish chorizo, black olive or Seville orange; savouries like black... more
This place is closing May 17, 2013. Cava, the owner's restaurant next door, will still be fully operational thankfully.
I decided to try one of their cupcakes of the month, it was a lemon poppy seed with lemon cream cheese frosting. It was very tasty and i would definitely recommend them. They had lots of chocolate choices and i did see the churros which to me seem so small and quite expensive.
I tried their hot chocolate and churros after hearing good reviews. And I was not disappointed.
The hot chocolate was perfectly thick, not too thick, not too liquidy. It was also not very sweet, just the way I like it. The churros were amazing, fresh and soft.
They also serve great ice creams and have a huge chocolate collection. The...
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