![]() ![]() My hot chocolate arrived and was perfect in its simplicity. This hot chocolate is too good for takeaway cups. New Yorkers don’t seem to value sitting down and taking time to enjoying something slowly. New York City and in particular the bankers on Wall Street are much too busy to sit or completely unaware of how lucky they are to have this store on their door step. In Paris I suspect I would have to fight for a seat in this café, but here I was, the only one. Today they were offering the Caracas, so I put my order in and relaxed into my seat. The menu is dominated by chocolate including two hot chocolates. A handsome man wearing a black suit greeted me and escorted me to the back of the shop where a small café has been set up with room for perhaps 10. Not surprisingly, there was a buzz of fast walking suits whizzing past the front door of La Maison du Chocolat when I arrived at 10am sharp as they opened their doors. Wall Street is a 1.1km stretch which is home to the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, two of the two largest stock exchanges in the world. Today he has several stores around the world, including one in New York City right in the middle of Wall Street. He learnt his art in Bayonne and in Switzerland before moving to Paris to open his first boutique in an old wine cellar which provided the idea conditions for preserving chocolates. ![]() It was founded in 1977 by Robert Linxe who was born in the French Basque region. ![]()
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