Kakawa Chocolate House

The Santa Fe New Mexican's Winterlife guide gives the distinction of best and most unique hot chocolate in town to this shop, which reproduces historically accurate chocolate elixirs made with herbs, spices and essential oils. The paper describes owner Tony Bennett recreating recipes that run from sweet to spicy to medicinal, from Marie Antoinette's orange flower chocolate to a sweet American elixir flavored with cane sugar and Mexican vanilla. Order the sweet American elixir, then pick up cacao nibs on the way out, the pairing the guide itself suggests.

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