My Chocolate Journal - Blog

I just returned from New York City this week after a week long trip for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (in which my lovely wife Stephanie marched for the Second Time Arounders Marching Band). While there, we visited two of Jacques Torres' locations: his new location on Amsterdam and Chocolate Haven.

The new location, just west of Central Park and just off Broadway is a small boutique shop with all the JS stock you would expect including his awesome bon bons (I bought a 25 piece box, yum!), toffee mac nuts, corn flakes & Cheerios, and his hot chocolate mix. There is also a small hot drink bar serving up coffee and chocolate drinks.

Later in the week we visited Jacques Torres Chocolate Haven in SoHo and we sitting around enjoying yet another classic hot chocolate drink. We were not expecting to see Jacques at the shop considering it was only an hour till closing time, but all of a sudden he popped out of the back to talk to one of his employees.

Yea! He is here!

I purchased a copy of his new A Year In Chocolate books and asked if he could come out and sign it for me. Jacques came out a few minutes later and actually remembered Stephanie and I from our week long visit with him on an Alaska cruise he did through Holland America Line in 2006! We talked for a few minutes and he signed my book!

Thanks Jacques and heres to your continued chocolatey success!

By the way, the book is great and includes some great new recipes, including his out of this would chocolate chip cookies. I highly recommend you pick on up, you can get it on Amazon.com.