Luxury Chocolate

As I've mentioned in quite a few posts, one of my favorite things about living in NYC is all the random food-related events. Marina recently alerted me about a very expensive cholatier, La Maison du Chocolat, holding a free 20th anniversary tasting event. Clearly, not being one to pass up chocolate, and free at that, we went last night to check it out. You can find out a little bit about the event here. We headed up to the Madison Avenue location around 8pm. We waited on line (hehehe, New Yorkers say on line instead of in line, drives me nuts) for only about 45 minutes, and were treated to the most decadent cups of hot chocolate and macarons while we waited. Once we made it inside, it was basically walking from counter to counter, getting piece after piece of chocolate and pastry goodness. I estimate we probably got around $45 worth of la Maison's actual priced merchandise. They were putting out their REGULAR chocolate offerings for the event too; not frumpy low-quality "just because this event is free" things. We tried macaron after macaron, pistachio ice cream, chocolate tarts, raspberry chocolate torte cake, caramel eclairs, chocolate and vanilla sponge cakes, chocolate mousse, and the specialty of the evening, the starlette. I still don't know what exactly it was, but it basically consisted of bite-size heaven. Some sort of shortbread ginger type crust, layered with passion fruit encased chocolate, and set with another piece of molded & printed dark chocolate.

The evening's starlette

After we were stuffed full of richness and chocolate, we were ushered out the door to classes of cool water, and a very fancy coffee truck for those who were interested. Marina and I opted instead to head downtown for Thai food, but eating our dessert first was half the fun. Thanks for a wonderful evening of delicious treats La Maison!