Fairtrade Kontor - Jena

Small cafe with good assortment of chocolate and coffee as well as home-made cakes

The hot chocolate: This is also a cafe selling Zotter's chocolate. Even though it's DIY hot chocolate they bring you the tools to produce a homogenous hot chocolate. Also on sale is non-Zotter stuff, which is not so rich in taste, but sweetened with honey

The price: 3,90 Euro for Zotter, 2,80 Euro for the other hot chocolate

The cafe: Rather tiny place in the old town of Jena


The location: Google Maps

Zotter Schoko-Laden-Theater - Essen

Well, this is not a cafe at all. It's chocolate shop, which offers hot chocolate to go.

The hot chocolate: Zotter hot chocolate is on sale. You have the choice between some ten different varieties. The prepare the chocolate with hot milk in a special shaker. Unlike Cafehaus in Herne the result is homogenous and has the good Zotter taste.

The price: 2,80 Euro. That's a lot for hot chocolate to go.

The cafe: A shop in a large shopping mall.


The location: Google Maps

Beckers Kaffeekontor & Espressobar - Bochum

The hot chocolate: Actually they offer two kinds of hot chocolate: The Italian Chocciolato and a classic hot chocolate. I chose the Italian version. It's thick, creamy, tasty. Everything is well done, the taste could be even better, but so far this is the best hot chocolate in Bochum.

The price: 2,80 Euro.

The cafe: Small cafe at a busy corner in Bochum. Rather modern furniture. Friendly staff and also very good food.

The location: Google Maps

Cafehaus - Herne

Today I visited Cafehaus in Herne after a day on the christmas market. Herne is not so well known for its numerous good cafes. Cafehaus is surely one of the better ones.

The hot chocolate: Cafehaus is another cafe selling large brand hot chocolate. They are going for the Zotter chocolate bars. Zotter is producing really decent chocolate, but as with all chocolate in bar form, is hard to produce a homogenous chocolate. Cafehaus sells the hot chocolate as DIY set with steamed hot milk in a glass with cream on top and the wrapped Zotter bar. The milk itself tasted a bit dull (too much steam, too little milk?) and the bar did not dissolve. I must say, that if you are going for Zotter, you should visit the Schokoladentheater at Limbecker Platz in Essen. They are doing it right.... (I should write a review as soon as I get there again)

The price: 3,30 Euro. Considering the quality and the retail price of Zotter bars that's not really reasonable.

The cafe: The cafe is rather modern with one large room and black furniture. It offers not only coffee, but also dinner. Rather nice place, but it's not the cosy kind of cafe.

The location: Google Maps

Cafe Nikolausruhe - Würzburg

While talking about Eraclea, there is a place in Würzburg offering their chocolate, too.

The hot chocolate: One gets a medium sized cup of chocolate, topped with cream. Although the consistency is very soft, the taste is still very intense. So it seems they only mess up the part, where the chocolate is reduced.

The price: Very reasonable 2-3 Euro.

The cafe: Unimposing from the outside, you'll soon find yourself in a real coffee house atmosphere. A large variety of home made cakes are offered.

The location: Google Maps

Unknown Name - Ljubljana

In the first contribution to this blog I would like to review a chocolate that I could enjoy only once. Since this is six years ago, I can only hope that this cafe still exists. Any comment on the fate of that place is very much appreciated.

The hot chocolate: An extremely well prepaired Eraclea chocolate is offered. It is very rich and thick, so you might want to spoon it. A varity of flavours as well as Fondues and combinations with ice cream are available.

The price: I honestly can't remember, but I spent all the rest of my Tolar in there.

The cafe: It's a nice, little pavement cafe.

The location: Openstreetmap

La Chocolaterie - Leipzig

The hot chocolate: You will be served a very small cup (less than 100ml) of hot chocolate. It seems not that much, but it comes down to pure chocolate. Now milk, foam or anything else. The chocolate is a little bit on the sweet side. After all it's a pity that the chocolate is finished too fast

The price: 3,20€

The cafe: The cafe is located a bit away from the city center in an old building. Basically it is only on small room with one large and a few small tables..

The location: Google Maps