Aroma's Java Cafe

CityBeat calls this Bridgetown cafe the only place in Cincinnati with an entire menu devoted to hot chocolate, a claim the West Side shop backs with its own powder blend of powdered sugar, cocoa powder and white sugar rather than a bottled syrup. Extras run to peanut butter, peppermint, marshmallow and strawberry syrup, turning the base into what the write-up calls dessert in a cup, a step up from what it calls the plebeian Ghirardelli-serving competition. Order the hot chocolate with peppermint or peanut butter mixed in, since the custom powder built for extras is the whole reason for the stop.

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