Christopher Elbow Chocolates

Christopher Elbow works from a Crossroads shop on McGee Street, and The Pitch ranked its hot chocolate first in the city in 2009, describing a cup nearly thick enough to hold a spoon upright and rich enough to split with someone. The paper's 2014 tour singled out the ginger drinking chocolate, whose tang cuts a sweet chocolate and caramel base, and the house marshmallows, denser and sweeter than the store bought kind. KCUR's Charles Ferruzza lists cocoa noir, peppermint, Venezuelan spice and mocha. Order the ginger, with the marshmallows.

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