An outrageous assault on the senses, featuring the most decadently divine, delectable desserts, dunked and dripping with delicious chocolate, served in sumptuous surroundings – a bohemian bordello of bizarre and baroque beauty.”

This is what you can expect if you venture into Bar du Chocolat and Choccywoccy Boudoir, the all new chocolate experience dreamed up by the Choccywoccydoodah team.

Expanding on the already successful chocolaterie and cake shop in Duke Street, Bar du Chocolat and Choccywoccy Boudoir are two different concepts under one roof.

Bar du Chocolat serves up real hot chocolate (melted chocolate sold by weight, stirred into steamed milk), huge slabs of cake – from chocolate and coffee to flapjacks and rose-flavoured Victoria sponge – dipping chocolate pots, milkshakes, coffees and sundaes.

Meanwhile Choccywoccy Boudoir is perhaps the ultimate in chocolate decadence: Hire the room and eat as much chocolate as your heart desires and your stomach can take.

Never ones to do things by halves, Choccywoccydoodah cater not only for chocoholics but for chocolate gourmands and connoisseurs as well.

At Bar du Chocolat, you can choose whether you want a straightforward Belgian-blend hot chocolate which is “amazing, lovely and perfectly adequate,” according to co-owner Christine Taylor.

If you are looking for a seriously good chocolate hit, however, you might prefer a pure-blend hot chocolate made with a specific superior cocoa bean of your choice. Bar du Chocolat is completely different to the visually stimulating, beautifully decorative shop on Duke Street.

It is painted black and white with a single, white, curvy counter running all the way around the room meant to resemble spilt milk.

“Bar du Chocolate is all about what you put in your mouth, and I don’t want anything to detract from that experience,”says Christine.

“It is very extravagant – it costs £3.75 for a mug of hot chocolate so it is quite an expensive thing – but it is so worth it, and I think once you have tried it, you are not going to stop thinking about it until you do it again.”

While Bar du Chocolat is an exercise in aesthetic restraint, Choccywoccy Boudoir is much more like the Choccywoccydoodah we all know and love – only more so.

Adjacent to the Bar but visible only through a doorway, the Boudoir can only be described as a chocolate den of iniquity, offering parties of two or more an extraordinarily luxurious chocolate experience.

The cosy room is full of paintings, intricate chocolate designs and sculptures and contains one large table and ten chairs – the setting for a once in a lifetime event.

“We want this to be the very best thing we do,” says Christine. “It’s all very sensual. You book the table – it is the same price whether it is just two of you or ten of you – and you will be presented with as much chocolate of all our varieties as you want.”

There is also the option to hire the room for an educational chocolate tasting if sheer indulgence is not your thing, but once you are a buff one thing is for certain: You will soon be back at Bar du Chocolat for the cream of the chocolate crop.

Review by Xenia Gregoriadis

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