Well Fed On the Town

It’s a lounge. It’s main dish is chocolate. Oh, yes. The new French Broad Chocolate Lounge features chocolates handcrafted in Asheville, and including organic, free trade and local ingredients. It’s a self-described “sacred space for chocofiles.”

There are some pretty amazing temptations here, and it truly is a lounge (and not a glorified chocolate shop with a couple bistro tables). You can order “liquid truffle hot sipping chocolates,” local beers, small production wines, locally-made ice cream, and the lounge features wi-fi.

The chocolates themselves are the real stars. The chocolate flavors and varieties include:

• Café Au Lait
• Cayenne
• Double Mint
• Fresh Raspberry
• Hazelnut
• Kentucky Bourbon, which includes 100% pure Knob Creek bourbon
• Lavender Honey
• Maple
• Masala Chai
• Mimosa
• Mole Negro
• White Jasmine

This also adds to the very fun chocolate scene in Asheville, which already features chocolates you can watch being crafted at either Chocolate Fetish or the new Kilwin’s.