Le Bar À Cacao

Top choice in Liège


Elegantly contemporary with tones of black and muted gold, this superb find serves excellent coffee (from €2.50) with which you get two exquisite Benoit Nihant mini-pralines as accompaniment. Indeed the chocolates come with any drink, including cacao-pulp juice, cocoa mohito or one of a supremely rich range of choco-chaudes (hot chocolate; from €5.50).

If you don't want to be completely chocked-out by the hot chocolate, request that they put the cocoa-Chantilly on the side, even though it rather spoils the presentation of what is a veritable work of choco-art.


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