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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in The Infatuation and Seattle Magazine. Updated September 2026.
Ghost Note Coffee · Capitol Hill
A Capitol Hill coffee bar built around cocktail shakers as part of its coffee-making toolkit, where the inventive drinks include a malted mocha paired with drinking chocolate and orange rind and an espresso float mixing a creamy iced latte with local root beer. The room itself is compact. Order the malted mocha with the drinking chocolate pairing.
Fran's Chocolates - Downtown
Fran's Chocolates serves its drinking chocolate in a white ceramic bowl, an indulgent presentation built around the 65 percent Venezuelan dark hot chocolate on the menu. Fran's has kept hot chocolate as a standing category on its own current menu, alongside the salted caramels the shop is best known for nationally. The chain now runs four Seattle-area shops, from Georgetown to Bellevue. Order the Venezuelan dark version at the downtown shop.