Chocolate Tasting

The other day we were invited by some of noa’s friends to join them for a chocolate tasting at chocolaterie nouvelle france. Its on Main st, and has been there for a few years now. Anyways, so we get there and its just the 4 of us in the tiny little cute store. how fun!

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so, first off, theres some very delicious whipped cream on the table.

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everyone except for me got a hot chocolate to start with. i got tea.
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the table was reserved for us. how nice
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so how this worked was we got 3 courses, and 2 choices each time. we ended up getting 2 and 2 of each course, so we could try anything.
in the first course, we got some chocolate with a marshmallow top,

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and this chocolate and banana thing under whipped cream
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and here we are and our fellow chocolate eating partners in crime displaying our wares

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Then we had some time to relax and drink tea, and that was followed by the second course, Mousses!
we had a 66 and an 72% mousse, i think.

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So good. these were by far my favourite!!

the last course, after more tea, was a brownie with ice cream 2 ways. one on a plate, and 1 in a bowl with a shot of coffee inside.
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Phew, so rich! overall it was a very pleasurable and relaxing experience, which i really enjoyed. chocolate is not my forte, but i did enjoy trying everything. i was bouncing with sugar afterwards though, and couldn’t think of chocolate for a few days afterwards. total overdose, but looking at those offerings, totally worth it.