Vosges Marzipan Bar, Green Tea Bar, and Hot Chocolate

I stopped by the Vosges shop in Soho recently, and they are really just a solid company.

So the matcha green tea bar with spirulina was not the biggest hit.  I mean, it was ok.  But Roh-Kaolade did it better.  Still, it was interesting.

The marzipan bar was really excellent.  The marzipan was fresher and gooey-er than the Rittersport version.  The only downside was that it had a stronger taste, so that -- despite have a higher chocolate-to-marzipan quantity ratio than the Rittersport -- it did not have a substantially higher chocolate-to-marzipan taste ratio.

It should also be noted that Vosges makes excellent hot chocolate.  It is not thick like City Bakery's.  It is for drinking.  It is a drink.  That is ok.  It is delicious.  It tastes like chocolate.

Bottom Line: Vosges is great, because they do simple things really well but also have really wacky ideas that are usually worth a try.

Roh-Kaolade 60% with Spurulina

So I am mostly vegan now, which makes people do strange things.  My aunt wanted to buy me a bar of chocolate.  So instead of buying me a bar of chocolate, which is already vegan, she bought me this:

"Raw" chocolate with spirulina.  Now, if you are like me, this sounds like a terrible and unnecessary idea.  But sometimes bad ideas have happy endings.  This was actually really delicious?  It did not taste like spirulina -- it just made the chocolate taste nice and earthy, which I always like.

Bottom Line: When your teachers told you to make mistakes, I think this is what they were talking about.