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Melting chocolatey deliciousness
Adored by everyone from the Aztecs onwards, chocolate is history's all-time number one guilty pleasure and entirely deserves a week dedicated to it. Been there thinks choc rocks as much as the next person, so send us your tastiest tips. From old-fashioned chocolatiers to cafes serving perfect mugs of frothy hot chocolate and even museums of chocolatey celebration... we're already licking our lips.
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    Posted by menguc 18 February 2006

    A chocolatiere. They have been making the best profiterole to my knowledge since 1923. The owner claims that he took the original recipe from either Paris or Vienna, and modified it. For anyone who cares for chocolate, it is a real treat.

    Enter Istiklal Caddesi, aka Beyoglu, from Taksim. It will be on your right, after the French Consulate and some stores. It is a hole in the wall but any local will be happy to point it

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