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Cocoa Bar

228 Seventh Ave., Brooklyn, NY, 11215
nr. 4th St.
718-499-4080

6.7 "Recommended"
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66% Would you go back?
0% Would you take a date?
0% Would you take kids?
0% Would you go on business?
0% Would you go on a special occasion?
Food: 7.0
Service: 5.5
Décor: 8.0
Value: 4.5
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jenniehiggins from 10001 | Posted on 5/15/09

Overall Rating: 7 (Recommended)
Would you go back? Yes
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Would you take kids? (NA)
Would you go on business? (NA)
Would you go on a special occasion? (NA)
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CHOCOLATE BAR WEST VILLAGE Alison Nelson reopened her West Village location just steps away from her pioneering original Chocolate Bar: 19 Eighth Avenue between 12th Street & Jane, NYC (West Village) www.chocolatebarnyc.com/ info@chocolatebarnyc.com

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3 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

nothing to go out of your way for

ooskral from 11215 | Posted on 4/22/07

Overall Rating: 5 (Mixed Reviews)
Would you go back? No
Would you take a date? No
Would you take kids? No
Would you go on business? No
Would you go on a special occasion? No
Food: 5
Service: 6
Décor: 6
Value: 3

I went on Valentine's Day and ordered hot cocoa and a slice of decadent-looking chocolate raspberry cake. The hot cocoa was not rich--your basic milky sweet stuff--and the cake was a little dry, and a little too reminiscent of grocery-aisle snack cakes. If you like your chocolate intense (and hot cocoa that goes down like straight-up molten chocolate), try the Chocolate Room on 5th Ave.

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139 out of 321 people found this review helpful.

Heaven in a dark wood box

hautepanda from 11215 | Posted on 3/12/07

Overall Rating: 8 (Recommended)
Would you go back? Yes
Would you take a date? No
Would you take kids? No
Would you go on business? No
Would you go on a special occasion? No
Food: 9
Service: 5
Décor: 10
Value: 6

It's kind of what Starbucks is trying to be and failing: a beautiful, soothing, pristine temple to the gods of rich chocolatey goodness where you can sit for hours and never tire of the surroundings. Service ranges from the attentive to the completely inattentive to the hysterically funny (I swear I saw a server attempting to make my peppermint hot cocoa by what appeared to be painstakingly melting Andes bars, one by one, in a jet of boiling water) but if you have the patience to get in there and just sip at your cup of chocolate-flavored tea or whatever, I promise your blood pressure will drop 10 points. So, so much better than its rival the Chocolate Bar on 5th Ave --- unless you are on a date or bringing friends and it's more important that the service and logistics flow smoothly than that the food be really good.

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154 out of 371 people found this review helpful.

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