Italian hot chocolate in Miami

Thick enough to stand a spoon in. Yes, even in Miami.

Where to get Italian hot chocolate in Miami

At Pistacchio Pane e Caffè, 188 NE 23rd Street in Edgewater. Our Italian hot chocolate is thick and dark, closer to a warm chocolate cream than to the cocoa you know: you start it with a spoon.

Price: $4.50
Where: 188 NE 23rd St, Edgewater
Order: Uber Eats, DoorDash

How to have it

Italian cioccolata calda is a drink you eat first.

FirstThe spoon
Start with the spoon while it is at its thickest, almost a pudding on top.
ThenDip something
A Cornetto al Pistacchio or a Biscotto Amarena e Cioccolato: both were made for it.
LastDrink the rest
As it cools a little it loosens, and the end of the cup is drunk like any hot chocolate.

Italian or American?

Two drinks that share a name. Roughly:

How thick

Italiancoats a spoon

Americanpours like milk

How big a cup

Italiansmall

Americana mug

Thickness is the whole difference: Italian hot chocolate is cooked until it holds a spoon.

In Miami, really?

In Italy this is a winter drink. In Miami, it turns out a thick chocolate in a small cup makes as much sense after an air-conditioned afternoon as it does in January in Turin. Order it at the bar with something to dip, and take a table.