Atlanta, GAHot Chocolate

Rich hot sipping chocolate topped with fluffy marshmallows comes from this bean-to-bar micro chocolate factory inside Krog Street Market, which also makes single-origin dark chocolate bars from carefully sourced cacao and bars like Kissed Mermaids with Costa Rican cacao, coconut milk and vanilla bean-infused sea salt. Order the hot sipping chocolate.

A Colony Square restaurant with a full list of hot chocolates: Cookies and Cream blends milk and white chocolates under whipped cream and crumbled Oreos, the Consulate is a hot salted milk chocolate with whipped cream and chocolate shavings, and the Peanut Butter Cup pairs milk chocolate sweetened with cream with a peanut butter whipped cream and chunks of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Order the Peanut Butter Cup and take a seat by the fireplace.

A European-style coffeehouse and a standing date-night stop for desserts with coffee, wine or a nightcap, where the hot chocolate is practically a dessert itself. The menu carries five versions, from the traditional cup of steamed milk, cream and rich Dutch chocolate topped with shaved chocolate to a semi-sweet Mexican hot chocolate. Order the traditional hot chocolate with something from the dessert case.

Hot chocolate topped with halal marshmallows and whipped cream at a family-run Pakistani bakery and cafe in Norcross, where the owners do the cooking and the greeting and the menu runs to Karachi-style chaat, masala fries, chicken rolls and desserts like shahi tukray. Order the hot chocolate after a plate of chaat.