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I don't have hot chocolate very often, but I've got opinions of local sources anyway. Top of the line: Barnes and Noble, at least a few years ago. They and Borders both had *two* hot chocolates in their cafes: one was "hot chocolate", and the other was branded. I think B&N had Joseph Schmidt and Borders had Godiva but I don't recall exactly... anyway, that's the sort of brand we're talking about. Of the four possibilities I only had the brand at B&N but it was extremely good. Rich and smooth, like liquid chocolate.
These days Seattle's Best Coffee seems to run the Borders cafe, and they only offer Cocoa Trio. It doesn't match my memory of Joseph Schmidt, but it was good. I had that Thursday. Yesterday I had Soma's hot chocolate, and, well, I didn't bother having even half of it before fleeing the crowd of guys talking about IP addresses. It was more like chocolatey water, though I don't want to say it was really watery. Didn't have powder floating around either... but still, it felt like I was seeing the difference between a syrup drink and a powder drink. Or maybe just in quality.
I've had hot chocolate at the Runcible Spoon though not too recently. At a guess. it's a bit better than Soma's, but not in the bookstore class.
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akashiver said she prefers the new Tex-Mex place, Qdoba, to Chipotle due to a higher meat/bean ratio. I haven't had Qdoba's burritos but I've sampled three of their tacos and they are fairly good. Nothing like my family's (nothing is) but the meat is, well, meaty and juicy, at least the chicken and steak ones are. Not sure about the ground sirloin. OTOH, their guacamole falls into what I call the Bland Green Paste category. They do put stuff in -- I like onion and tomatoes in, not just avocado puree -- but it still felt lacking. And not much guac for a huge pile of tortilla chips (many undercooked, though I guess that just means soft rather than dangerous), for $2.70.
Hmm. I guess technically I could review Chili's, since I ate there last night. I don't normally think of Big Box restaurants as worthy of my attention. I just had their skillet queso appetizer with chips, supposedly cheese and beef. The color looked like bean paste, though there were meat chunks in it; anyway, pretty unexciting. I ate most of it with salsa mixed in.
Time to update my restaurants list. Sans Chili's.
I don't have hot chocolate very often, but I've got opinions of local sources anyway. Top of the line: Barnes and Noble, at least a few years ago. They and Borders both had *two* hot chocolates in their cafes: one was "hot chocolate", and the other was branded. I think B&N had Joseph Schmidt and Borders had Godiva but I don't recall exactly... anyway, that's the sort of brand we're talking about. Of the four possibilities I only had the brand at B&N but it was extremely good. Rich and smooth, like liquid chocolate.
These days Seattle's Best Coffee seems to run the Borders cafe, and they only offer Cocoa Trio. It doesn't match my memory of Joseph Schmidt, but it was good. I had that Thursday. Yesterday I had Soma's hot chocolate, and, well, I didn't bother having even half of it before fleeing the crowd of guys talking about IP addresses. It was more like chocolatey water, though I don't want to say it was really watery. Didn't have powder floating around either... but still, it felt like I was seeing the difference between a syrup drink and a powder drink. Or maybe just in quality.
I've had hot chocolate at the Runcible Spoon though not too recently. At a guess. it's a bit better than Soma's, but not in the bookstore class.
On to real food.
akashiver said she prefers the new Tex-Mex place, Qdoba, to Chipotle due to a higher meat/bean ratio. I haven't had Qdoba's burritos but I've sampled three of their tacos and they are fairly good. Nothing like my family's (nothing is) but the meat is, well, meaty and juicy, at least the chicken and steak ones are. Not sure about the ground sirloin. OTOH, their guacamole falls into what I call the Bland Green Paste category. They do put stuff in -- I like onion and tomatoes in, not just avocado puree -- but it still felt lacking. And not much guac for a huge pile of tortilla chips (many undercooked, though I guess that just means soft rather than dangerous), for $2.70.Hmm. I guess technically I could review Chili's, since I ate there last night. I don't normally think of Big Box restaurants as worthy of my attention. I just had their skillet queso appetizer with chips, supposedly cheese and beef. The color looked like bean paste, though there were meat chunks in it; anyway, pretty unexciting. I ate most of it with salsa mixed in.
Time to update my restaurants list. Sans Chili's.