Luxury British chocolatier and cocoa grower, Hotel Chocolat, is to open its first Scottish store in Frederick Street, Edinburgh.
Date:
Fri, 02 Dec 2011
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Hotel Chocolat
Alongside Hotel Chocolat’s stunning range of chocolate, this new store is the first to incorporate a groundbreaking new café concept, the Coffee Vs Cocoa Bar, which is "set to revolutionise café culture".
It features a range of delicious and exclusive new drinks made possible by cocoa-roasting techniques newly developed by Hotel Chocolat.
Customers choose from a traditional coffee menu and decide whether they would like their espresso, latte or cappuccino prepared with freshly roasted coffee or cocoa beans.
The key difference between these new cocoa drinks and the heavier, hot chocolate-style drinks is stark, as Angus Thirlwell, Hotel Chocolat CEO, explains: "By using our new roasting techniques, we have succeeded in capturing the amazingly fresh and invigorating flavours of the whole cocoa bean, which puts it firmly on a par with coffee.
"What’s more, cocoa is high in anti-oxidants, caffeine and trace minerals and, unless otherwise stated, all the cocoa is from our own Rabot Estate plantation in Saint Lucia."
This latest store further broadens the company’s boutique store collection, which now boasts locations across the UK and the Channel Islands, as well as in New York and Boston, USA.
The open day of celebrations takes place on 15th December with chilled prosecco and chocolate tasting for customers all day, as well as the chance to meet Hotel Chocolat’s head chocolatier, Olivier Nicod and co-founder, Angus Thirlwell.
Hotel Chocolat was founded in 2004 with a mission "to make chocolate exciting again". Authenticity, originality and ethics are central to the brand and this, combined with its knowledge and experience as a cocoa grower on its Saint Lucian plantation, The Rabot Estate, puts it firmly in a class of its own.
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