The Butterwood Bake Consortium

NEXTpittsburgh describes the hot chocolate at this Lawrenceville bakeshop as a hands-on experience, arriving as a mug of melted semisweet chocolate alongside a carafe of steamed milk so a customer builds the richness themselves, finished with the shop's own whipped cream. Pittsburgh Magazine covers the same bakeshop's Austrian-inspired room and its daily-changing dessert case. Order the hot chocolate and pour the milk in slowly, the build the guide describes as the point of the six-dollar-twenty-five-cent cup.

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