Samuel C.
Yelp
It has been a perfect day.
I have had chocolate.
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Juliette and Chocolat is a hot chocolate restaurant.
Yes, they have sandwiches and salads for you to have a meal first.
Yes, they have other desserts.
But at the end of the day, it is the hot chocolate.
You can get classical cocoa in milk, with various kinds of chocolate,
(Bittersweet, Milk, White)
and various toppings .
(Marshmallows, Caramel, Nutella)
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You can also go for the very pure, very classic, very unadulterated chocolate experience.
Pure chocolate melted down with only enough water to make it sippable.
Served in a snifter so all that chocolate flavor stays in the glass.
This is an intense communion with chocolate.
This is you talking one on one with your chocolate god.
This is you and chocolate taking your relationship to the next level.
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It comes in three flavors based on the chocolate used.
65% Cacao Madagascar.
65% Cacao Peru.
80% Cacao Uganda.
I went for the 80% Cacao Uganda.
It was 4:30 in the afternoon when I finished the Cacao Uganda.
There was no point in doing any more traipsing around Montreal.
Our day was complete. Our day was full.
The sun had set in our hearts and everything was the way things needed to be.
My wife had the 65% Cacao Peru. That was more like a candy bar than the 80% Uganda.
It was also wonderful.
Her sun set in a different place in the west than mine did but it was a lovely delightful place too.
Technically they offer a sampler of three different chocolates served on a wooden tray in three different snifters.
It would be a night of love with first Taylor Swift, then Scarlett Johansson, then Jessica Biel.
You could do that - but each successive experience would undercut what went before.
Take just one snifter and be happy.
Save the other treats for another time.
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And yes they have regular hot cocoa and milkshakes and lots of other stuff.
The world is full of wonderful things.
But sometimes just one wonderful thing is all you need to find contentment.