Sarah K.
Yelp
If you are into hot chocolate, or really any kind of chocolate, this is a must stop in Walpole. The storefront is adorable and fancy, luxury store meets small town New England charm. I was worried we were underdressed in hoodies and jeans, but after watching others come and go I realized a lot of the clientele are tourists in casual dress. Walking in, there is a large glass case filled with baked treats and past the case, the drink menu is above the counter. About half of the drink menu are various kinds of hot chocolate. They have descriptions with tasting notes for each chocolate to help you decide if you'd like to try one of their specialty single source chocolates, which is what I recommend. They also had several teas and espresso drinks. Seating indoors and out.
We decided on a selection of treats: the raspberry tart, Linzer torte, Harvard Square, and chocolate raspberry cake. I think the raspberry tart may have been a special item because I didn't see it on their regular menu. It was my favorite. Buttery crust and so many raspberries, tart and not too sweet. The Harvard Square was also fantastic - it's this dense, fudgy chocolate cake with walnuts and chocolate ganache. The quality of the chocolate was top notch. I loved that while it was rich, again, it was not super sweet. The chocolate raspberry cake was more of the same, moist, rich, lots of chocolate flavor and not cloying. I think a lot of these desserts are geared more towards adults because nothing we tried was overly sweet, which I really appreciated. We did not sample any of their actual chocolates, but hope to next time. Apparently they are known for the chocolate mice, which were pretty adorable.
For drinks, I got a caramel latte (made with homemade caramel!) and my fiancé got the single source Grenada dark hot chocolate. The tasting notes for his chocolate were banana, coffee, and nutmeg, and it delivered on all 3 and they came together in the strangest and most wonderful way. This is no Swiss Miss. This hot chocolate is not sweet. But man was it gooooood. I think it might be the best hot chocolate either of us ever had. My caramel latte was great, but it didn't compare to this hot chocolate. I would love to come back and get a few different ones so we could compare the difference in flavors each unique chocolate provides.
One downside: this place is expensive. Maybe a little too expensive. It is a treat. I couldn't buy a $7.75 hot chocolate regularly. But if you know going in that this is a place where you are going to be treating yourself, it's totally worth the hit to your wallet. 10/10 would chocolate again (next time I won't eat everything so fast I forget to take pictures)