Xocolatl Room
Those who can never get enough chocolate will heart the imminent transformation of Dallas Chocolates, the Uptown chocolatier founded by Zel Nealy. She’s expanding from choc-making to a choc-themed café called the Xocolatl Room, where everything on the menu will have a touch of chocolate: choc drinks, choc desserts, but also choc-laced items for breakfast and lunch. (It’ll stay open at night, but just drinks & desserts.) Xocolatl will have a soft opening on Aug 1, followed by, what, a hard opening? in September.
2817 Howell st. 214-559-7277
posted by TG @ 10:23 AM
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60 Comments:
glad you're back, twisted. it will be good to have something to read besides WRAMBLING MAN's puny attempts at being poetic.
Chocolate's special
I would eat it every meal
But then I'd grow fat
Xocolatl Room seems to be on cusp of a trend, if you are to believe this week's Time magazine's story on chocolate bar/lounges. Mars Inc., the candy maker, has opened three Ethel's Chocolate Lounges in Chicago and plans three more by end of summer. Glad to see Dallas is getting its version. Nobody knows the truffles we've seen.
isn't it so awesome when ron weighs in with the big picture?
why it seems like only yesterday i was having a hot chocolate in Paris, at one of their many choc cafes. Cafe Lenotre, i believe it was.
(actually it was like 4 years ago and i've been waiting ever since for the opportunity to type that paragraph above.)
all la-dee-da pretensions aside, after writing today's blog item, i HAD to make hot chocolate so now i'm nice and hot and wired.
Faites-vous ne l'aime pas juste quand TG commencent à va tout français sur nous ? J'aime cela. Plus ! Plus ! Plus !
That reminds me, I have some hot chocolate here somewhere among the vodka and gin. Good call, TG.
And speaking of hot chocolate and other SB type beverages, what's the most overused flavor? I'd have to say Cinnamon. It's everywhere. I'll take Vanilla or Hazelnut over Cinnamon, though I do like a little more interesting flavors like Pumpkin, Clove or Lavender.
Chocolate and orange! The best pairing since Adam met Eve.
you eagle-eyed proofreaders probably don't mind the name, but it's going to give the rest of us a devil of a time. and how do you pronounce it? zoc-o-lat-el?
captain: pardon me if i'm being too personal, but you don't look all that skinny now. and look at what your diet has done to your face?
chocolate and red wine
We had mango chocolate something at Fuse the other day. It would have been better with a different mango, say an Alphonso rather than the (probably) Mexican (or possibly) Venezulean Mango they used.
I've had chocolate and chili before and yeah the red wine thing is kinda old too. I'm waiting for something really neat like chocolate covered celery!
Yum!
wow! isn't dean the expert on mangoes! i prefer fresh apricots myself. (i love dried ones, too.)
chocolate for breakfast. yum!
it doesn't do much for my budweiser
MMMMMM!
mongrel dog drinks his beer (used) out of the toilet bowl
Chocolate and beer do compliment (if your'e drinking good beer).
hm, twisted, weren't you the one bitching about the commentary taking a low-minded dive? and look where you've taken it: right down the goddamned toilet
dean, don't you think choc-coffee is the most common pairing? at least as far as drinks go. but nothing will ever, ever beat choc + malt. that's one flavor combo you simply CANNOT overdo. or at the very least, it's one flavor combo i can never stop talking about
would that choc+malt be at starbucks? you are so brazen in your constant propagandizing for that cloying chain.
of course, the pretensious wrambling man only drinks GOOD beer.
why, anonymous, i had COMPLETELY forgotten that starbucks had a chocolate-malt option! how kind of you to remind me!
ok yes, that's the drink i wuz thinking about. but Sonic also has choc-malt and so does ... yes ... that other center of culinary excellence, JACK IN THE BOX! what a happy day it is when i can mention both sbux and JITB in a single comment. anonymous, you've done this blog a tremendous service. (am i the only one who hears celebratory bells ringing?)
i do believe "capt." has a new nickname.
tg: anonymous was me. i must have just pushed a wrong key but i stand behind all my comments about you+starbucks.
NO RESPECTABLE DOG WOULD HAVE A NAME THAT BEGINS WITH C-A-T.
WHATTA HOMO.
well ms.ery, you will go down in NYCE history as the person who prompted what i hope will be the first of many comments from me that incorporate both a mention of sbux and JITB! (see! there's the second one! keep those straight lines coming!)
horrors, ms. pristine palate, aka tereese! don't they serve chocolate+malt at cici's pizza?
mongrel dawg: i guess you should call be a lez since i am female, but fyi catahoula's are not cat dogs, they are leopard dogs, and i could tear your face off with one swipe of my paw.
STARBUCKS, STARBUCKS, STARBUCKS, STARBUCKS. JACK IN THE BOX, JACK IN THE BOX, JACK IN THE BOX, JACK IN THE BOX, JACK IN THE BOX...are you happy noW tereeese?
i think ron is pretentious. if you agree with me, JUMP
"i do believe "capt." has a new nickname."
wrambling man, hmmmmmm, I'll take it.
And life's too short to drink bad beer.
dean wouldn't be the guy i'd take to meet my folks either.
And tg, again we part company. Malt is not a good thing (imhhho). White "chocolate" is also not a good thing. I want to try this drinking chocolate I keep hearing about. Maybe when Mel Gibson's new Mayan movie comes out, it will become "the thing".
LEOPARD DOG... HAHA YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE. BUT I DO: PUSSY! PUSSY! PUSSY!
I've been called worse. And you're losing altitude.
captain: your wramblings are the product of a wruined mind
yeah, i lost altitude -- and got away with the money
hey, mongrel cur: go lap up the toilet bowl; twisted link neglected to flush it.
tg: your's and my good friend jane sumner just told me that she visited your site sometimes. does she use jane or has she done any postings that you know of? anyway, one visit by jane is more valuable than a dozen starbucks.
mr. link: your current attitude makes me rather glad i didn't take that oak cliff apartment.
i love wasabi peas. wouldn't they be interesting with a chocolate coating?
oops, i almost missed it. SONIC, SONIC, SONIC. are you happy yet tg?
tg used to be a bona fide foodie. but since she fell in with plano guy, apparently, she can't say enuff about fast food. it's the serious diner's loss.
PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY!
carrion eater and toilet bowl drinker: your muzzle looks white. is that from feat?
sorry, twisted, mr. trump asked me to mind his apartments. he is looking for a better class of tenants, which you probably wouldn't get on the wrong side of the trinity.
HEEEEEEER, KITTY KITTY KITTY!
what is the highest number of comments that have ever been posted on your blog?
the captain's wramblings come from a wruined mind.
skews my dust
twisted dawg: i love it when you talk dirty
so far, no one has told me how to pronouce xocolatl. doesn't anyone know?????
chocolate-covered pounces are yummy and my friend 86 likes chocolate-coated pig's ears,
where is wrambling man when the conversation is getting sorta slow? we need him to beat upon on.
i'd like to beat up on that twisted dawg and his skewed master
TG: Yes, chocolate and coffee is probably done the most, though I'd say orange isn't far behind. I'm not a fan of chocolate and coffe. Maybe if Cici's did a coffee chocolate pizza . . ..
DM: What's up with that? I mean, I'd bring them a good mango. What? No good?
86: I love wasabi peas, OBar has the best, but then those large, sphere-like crunchy wasabi things at Dragonfly are awesome too (whatever they are).
oh dean, if you like wasabi peas go to a japanese market, where they are cheaper and more authentic. the best one i know is edo something, at the corner of valley view and josey lane in farmers branch. (edo or whatever was once the capital of japan, tho i may be missing something this late in the night) anyway, weekends they have sushi-ready fish.
WHO IS DM AND WHY IS DEAN TRYING TO FINAGLE HIS WAY OUT OF WHATEVER CORNER HE'S BOXED IN?
Well I've never bought those peas before. No, I tell a lie, I got some from Teaism in DC, right before I (almost) bought a ham from Virginia, but I digress. I'll get some from the Japanese store.
DM = Daisey Mae, who had this to say:
daisey mae said...
dean wouldn't be the guy i'd take to meet my folks either.
July 28, 2005 3:33 PM
i'm confused. noone is answering any questions. nitey nite.
red ennk said...
you eagle-eyed proofreaders probably don't mind the name, but it's going to give the rest of us a devil of a time. and how do you pronounce it? zoc-o-lat-el?
Red:
Xocolatl is the original Aztec word for chocolate. The Spanish interpreted the word as "choe-coe-LAH-tay." So, while Aztec is not my first, second, third or fourth language, I would venture a guess that it should be pronounced, "Choe-coe-LAH-t'l."
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