1000 Tiny Birds: 2025 edition

Jacques Torres

New York, 2025-05-01

Finally! A hot chocolate! A sign on the counter warns me that, in order to fully activate the starch, the hot chocolate is very hot. They’re not wrong - I only attempt to tackle it a subway ride and a walk to the hotel later. It’s a very deep hot chocolate, more bitter than sweet, even with the whipped cream (scooped from a tub - a tub!), which honestly took me by surprise in a country where even the bread is full of sugar. It’s quite nice, but lacked the zing of a good, balanced hot chocolate.