When the days get darker and winter chills set in there's nothing quite like cozying up with a good cup of hot chocolate. Paris is home to many a famous chocolatier, and consequently some of the world's most delicious cocoa. Master chocolatiers have developed something of a cult following for their hot chocolate drinks with some expert tasters claiming it's the best they've ever had. With desriptors of this chocolatey ambrosia of being rich, smooth, chocolatey, decadently thick and bittersweet, it's nothing short of the stuff dreams are made of!

Imagine a cup of luxurious molten hot chocolate before you, profoundly rich and velvety and with a perfectly-tempered balance of bitterness and sweetness. This stuff is a serious undertaking.

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