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Nashville's hot chocolate, from Bang Candy Company's marshmallow-topped cup in Marathon Village to Crema's Askinosie chocolate sauce downtown, sourced from Nashville Scene and Nashville Lifestyles.
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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Nashville Scene, Nashville Lifestyles, and The Infatuation. Updated September 2026.
Crema Coffee Roasters · Downtown
Nashville Scene singles out this downtown roaster's hot chocolate as frill-free and perfectly creamy, made with Askinosie Chocolate sauce rather than syrup, tangy and rich enough to taste faintly malty, with no whipped cream, marshmallows or shavings to hide behind. The Infatuation separately calls Crema a Nashville coffee institution whose drip coffee is the smoothest on its list, an independent nod to the shop generally. Order the hot chocolate on its own rather than dressed up, which is how the write-up says it's meant to be had.
Barista Parlor - East Nashville
Nashville Lifestyles names this East Nashville roaster for mixing different varieties of Olive & Sinclair chocolate, the local bean-to-bar maker, into its hot chocolate to strike the right level of sweet and heat. Nashville Scene separately covers the chain's hot chocolate program as one of the city's more elaborate, built around single-origin chocolate rather than a syrup base. Order the hot chocolate for the Olive & Sinclair chocolate rather than one of the coffee drinks the shop is better known for.