Coco Chocolate launched their new venture at 71 Broughton Street on 16 July.
The great, the good and the greedy gathered to meet staff and try some of the firm's top-quality, organic, fairly traded, Kosher, AMBAO-certified, 100% cocoa butter chocolate products.
Scrumdiddlyumptious was the general verdict, though few could pronounce it with mouths full and brains addled on time-bottled cocktails and champagne.
Before the room began to swim, this correspondent observed a bewildering variety of mouthwatering and unlikely ingredients, including: caramel sea salt and peanut, jasmine, lavender, black pepper, cardamom, chilli, geranium, Earl Grey Tea, tobacco, and green pepper. It sounds like a psychedelic trip for the tastebuds, but everything sampled on the night was fantastic.
Coco Chocolate employ 3 chocolatiers in Roslin, where the batches are made, and are building on the success of an earlier branch which continues in Bruntsfield. On the night, few left in any doubt that their new shop on Broughton Street will fit right in. AM
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