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Gastronomalies: RIM Café's Parmesan Hot Chocolate
A weird but kind of wonderful marriage of chocolate and cheese.
Gastronomalies: RIM Café’s Parmesan Hot Chocolate
We’re going to posit that – as a human with taste buds - you enjoy cheese. And we’re guessing that - every so often - you indulge in a bar of chocolate.
Which means that we’re obligated to tell you when cheese meets chocolate. Back in 2009, an encounter happened when self-proclaimed “curd nerd” Jamie Forrest introduced the pair on Valentine’s Day. Four years later, cheese and chocolate cross paths again, this time in the Parmesan Hot Chocolate, confectionery guru Don René Kobeitri’s latest spectacle.
Kobeitri mans the counter at his own zany, Godfather-inspired love den, RIM Café (1172 South 9th Street). Nestled in the heart of the Italian Market, this place has everything: nooks for cuddling, faux fires for toasting your frostbitten fingers, and a motorcycle, well, just because.
When the French guy tells you he will “make it happen” – and he will tell you so repeatedly and emphatically – he means that he will make you a hot chocolate unlike any you’ve encountered before. Picture a pillow of whipped cream, smothered in a stream of liquid lava, finished with flakes shaved from three (or more) kinds of homemade chocolate.
The beverages come in a variety of pricey-but-worth-it flavors. To top it off, your host will give you samples of what he’s got brewing. We hit the jackpot and got to taste a spicy caramel and an espresso molasses.
As for the Parmesan incarnation of hot cocoa, all we can say is that it’s more good than weird. And by good we mean decadence like this probably isn’t legal.
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