Cuckoo for Cocoa Bar
I ventured out into Brooklyn last weekend, a rare event since, as an Astorian, it’s quite a trek on the subway. We went to a place in Park Slope called the Cocoa Bar. The bar serves a wide selection of chocolates, coffees, and wine. They even included “Ice Wine” on the menu, which is utterly delicious. I hadn’t even seen ice wine anywhere since sampling it at a wine tasting in Germany. One taste. And I have longed for it since. Happily, the two (rather expensive) glasses of it were just as wonderful as I remembered.
Unfortunately, I could not taste the many chocolates they served since they “may contain traces of nuts”. So nut allergy-sufferers like myself beware. But I looked at them. Longingly. The white chocolate genache. The chocolate mousse cake. The dark chocolate truffles! I almost decided to tempt death and sample one, but my friends persuaded me that my life was not worth a taste of chocolate. Though with really good chocolate, I’m not too sure…
The Cocoa Bar has a decent deal of one glass of wine with two chocolate bonbons for $11. Not bad. The entrance area is a bit too bright and day-ish, but there’s a cosy room in the back and a lovely courtyard area. The bar was started by some young folk, so it’s worth the slight priciness to help those small business owners out. All in all, worth the journey into Brooklyn. Especially since a friend drove us home.
September 26th, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Hm, that sounds like something that should start in San Francisco too… I know more than a few chocoholics who’d go nuts over this.