Popcorn To Red Velvet: 5 Unique Hot Chocolates To Beat The Rainy Day Gloom!

With non-stop rains battering the city streets, we’re all feeling a little blue, but hot chocolate always comes to the rescue! Beat that rainy day gloom with a warm cuppa of hatke hot chocolate from these places which to us feels like a hug in a mug!

Popcorn Hot Chocolate at The Soundtrack Cafe

Yes, you read that right! If you’re a movie buff, we bet you go through tub after tub of crunchy popcorn while watching your favourite movies. But what if you got that punch of popcorn flavour in your hot chocolate? The Soundtrack Cafe in Pimple Nilakh creates a mean cuppa hot chocolate. Dark chocolate, cocoa powder, popcorn flavour syrup and of course heaps of popcorn; if that isn’t quirky hot chocolate at its best, we don’t know what is!
Where: Neco Sky Park Commercial, New DP Road, Vishal Nagar, Pimple Nilakh, Pimpri-Chinchwad
Price: Rs 200

Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate at Le Flamington

Hands down one of the best places to have hot chocolate in the city; Le Flamington serves you a variety of Single Origin drinking chocolates that are to die for! These range from a 35% milk and a 64% Manjari to a 100% dark varietal; there’s something here for every palate. And if you love your chocolate to be a little unique, then we recommend their Peanut Butter Drinking Chocolate which perfectly blends chocolate and peanut buttery goodness!
Where: Survey 206, Pune Nagar Road, Kalyani Nagar
Price: Rs 260

Red Velvet Hot Chocolate at Cafe Bistro

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Cream cheese, cocoa and a gorgeous red colour; if you love Red Velvet Cake, you’re gonna love this delicious hot chocolate at Cafe Bistro. Made with a rich combination of chocolate and cocoa powder, the drink has beetroot powder to add colour and of course a cream cheese frosting on top. The drink not only looks divine but is a blast of rich flavours!
Where: 14, Adarsh Nagar Road, Adinath Society, Parsanees Colony, Maharshi Nagar
Price: Rs 180

Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate at Midnight Kakery

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Theme cakes, macarons, desserts and savoury bakes; we love Midnight Kakery for all things baked but they’re not behind on their beverage game either. From Cinnamon, Peppermint and Hazelnut to Orange and Salted Caramel; they make an insane variety of flavours in hot chocolates and all of them are equally delicious. Our top picks here are their Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate which is the perfect mix of sweet and salty and their Death by Hot Chocolate which is an ultra-thick version of Hot chocolate!
Where: Shop 6, Sairang Commercial Complex, DP Road, Near Paranjape School, Kothrud
Price: Rs 230

White Hot Chocolate at ChurroMania

We love ChurroMania for their delicious variety of loaded Churros and beverages. But we recently came across a hatke version of hot chocolate here, that simply blew us away; their White Hot Chocolate. This cupful of joy is for true chocolate lovers! Made with nothing else but pure 100% melted white chocolate; the drink is rich, thick and smooth. There is no addition of extra sugar or any other sweetening agent; so that it is just the right amount of sweetness for you. While they also make Belgian Dark Chocolate and Nutella flavours in their hot chocolates; we recommend you try out their White hot chocolate at least once!
Where: Shop D 07, Plot B, Survey 62/12, Girme Heights, Wanawadi, Salunkhe Vihar Road
Price: Rs 16