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EdwarT Chocolatier
Summary
- Coffee tones, cherries, earthy
- Artisanal chocolate from the streets of Paris
- Cost: N/A (book a trip to Paris)
Review
The bar is thick, and you don’t realize it until you feel the weight of a chunk melting in your mouth. It starts off with warm coffee tones but cherry flavors quickly develop that are sour at the tongue tip. It tastes tropical.
Like the beans were picked after a tropical storm rained through Vietnam. (I know — a bit much maybe. But the best tastings let the imagination wander.)
It begins smooth but as the chocolate melts, you begin to feel nuggets of small chocolate pieces, as the melt occurs in patches throughout the large chunk.
The Story of this Bar
This bar was a gift from my manager. We were in Paris for a work meeting. He knew I was a fan of chocolate and picked this up for me when he was exploring the Le Marais neighborhood.
Three of us (my manager, my tech lead manager, and I) were waiting for our coffee at La Caféothèque de Paris when he presented me with this thoughtful gift. As we waited, we did a quick tasting of the bar. It was fun to sit around the eclectic coffee shop, taste the bar, enjoy some coffee, and chat about random topics all the way from politics to photography.
H, N, and me have worked together for over a year and a half, and I would typify us as all as workaholics in some sense or another. It was nice to have down time where we sat together, enjoyed each others’ company, and talked non-work stuff. It was nice…since usually we’re always talking about work, haha.
The memory of this bar is not so much the bar itself (though quite delicious), but the memory of good company and good conversation!