I spent all afternoon searching for the Frommer's-recommended Death By Chocolate. I went to Broad Street. I went to West Pender Street. Finally, I called another location to hear the sad news: "All of our downtown locations have closed." (From now on, I will not blindly trust those Google search results!)
So, I made my way over to Denman Street, where True Confections resides. This dessert cafe serves cakes so large that I'm actually frightened by them. They had a guava cheesecake, but I really longed for an all-chocolate environment. I walked a bit further south until I found exactly what I was looking for: Koko Chocolate Creations, which opened up just two weeks ago.
I breathed in the heady chocolate aroma, retrieved a pen and set about scribbling some notes. Unfortunately, this aroused the suspicions of the owners, who asked to see my press credentials. As I am just a humble blogger, and am on vacation, I did not have any business cards on me. But I still managed to get some good chocolate-sampling in and had a lovely time, and I am now going to impart the following information to you in case you are in downtown Vancouver and miss Death By Chocolate.
If you're just craving a bit of chocolate, go for the "Chocolate By The Shot": a couple sips worth of delicious dark, white or hot chocolate (all chocolate is of Belgian origin). Also to drink are more styles of hot chocolate than I can remember... Turkish with cardamom, Canadian with maple syrup, whipped cream and pecans, and Mexican with nutmeg and chili. Oh, and Scandinavian with caramel toffee... and that's just to drink! To eat, there are chocolate pizzas, fondue, explosive molten chocolate cake, smores, mudslides, cookies, chocolate peanut butter mousse... and then there are boxed chocolates in exotic flavors like coconut curry and peach ginger. Enjoy!
Koko Chocolate Creations: 1118 Denman Street, Vancouver, (604) 669-1887.
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