Jacques Torres Chocolate

After Levain, it was hard for me to enjoy other cookies (like ever again)
But I had to try at least one of Jacques Torres’s special cookies. They were unique in that its not ur typical cookie with chocolate chip mounds but rather a flat cookie loaded with chocolate discs. The dark choco was rich and it makes my top 5!

I’ve been here multiple times and it’s one of my fav’s. The flavors are awesome. The only chocolates I can think of off the top of my head that are better are Kee’s.

In Chelsea Market, serves the best hot chocolate ever. Ricn thick and creamy. Absolutely delish!

Hit the road, jacques.
I stopped by here to try their frozen hot chocolate. I don’t quite understand the appeal. It tastes like homemade hot chocolate with chunks of ice. It’s ok BUT it’s not as bad as Serendipity’s so I guess that’s a plus?

Came to the Chelsea Market to shop and as I walked through I noticed there was a JTC and I’ve really been wanting a Wicked Hot Chocolate for a while so I stopped in and got a small one. The chocolate was very rich and somewhat thick which I loved but I was quite disappointed with the lack of heat that is supposed to come through with the ground ancho chili peppers and smoked, ground chipotle chili peppers. It was still very good and would go back

I tried the chocolate chip cookie and I actually thought it was quite delicious. The chocolate chunks weren’t too sweet and the cookie had a great flavor overall. Only downside was that the particular chocolate chip cookie I had was hard. I think if you’re main products are cookies and it’s been sitting out for awhile and has hardened, then you shouldn’t sell it to a customer.
I’ll definitely have to come back and give it another shot but hopefully next time, I get a fresh cookie. Oh, as for the hot cocoa, it’s decent here. I wasn’t really feeling the Wicked hot cocoa which has a mild kick to it because of the ancho and chipotle chili’s. Next time, I’ll stick to the traditional hot cocoa.

Based solely on the hot chocolate, which contained cinnamon, nutmeg and chipotle, delicious! Not sure what they charge because I only got a sample of it while on a chocolate tour, but they’re located in Chelsea Market so I’m sure it’s not cheap.
There really didn’t to be much room to sit down after you ordered from this place so be prepared to grab and go and get away from the madness inside the Market place.

Best chocolate chip cookie ever!

Had a sample of hot chocolate here yesterday as part of the chocolate tour I was on. When it heard it had spiciness in the mix, I was nervous about trying it since I don’t like spicy things & feared it would be too hot. Nonetheless, I tried it anyway.
It’s a good thing I did since the hot chocolate was definitely the best I’ve had (or at least in the top 5). It was thick and definitely chocolatey enough to satisfy chocolate cravings. I will most definitely return sometime considering this location is right in the Chelsea Market.

I bought a groupon for a chocolate tour. jacques Torres is the first stop since we started our tour in front of chelsea market.
We get to sample their famous hot chocolate. Contains NUTMET, CINNAMON, and CHIPOTLE. with dark chocolate. I dislike cinnamon and nutmeg… but with the chipotle. it gives the taste a little kick. tasted sweet but not too sweet… rich and thick. Mmmm…
and the chocolates are display neatly. it makes me feel hungry looking at the chocolates. I want them all. furthermore, our tour guide told us that the owner of Jacques Torres invented OREO COOKIES!!!
There are 20+ of us and the server was really nice to us. Brewing us the best hot chocolate. I am falling in love with this place with just drinking of a «shot» of the hot chocolate.
Now. this place makes me choose between getting hot chocolate her or a cup of cappuccino at Ninth Street Espresso… Hmmm…

The cold wicked hot chocolate was AMAZING! Spicy and chocolatey yet not too sweet — absolutely delish and refreshing!
I will definitely be back on a cold day to try the HOT wicked hot chocolate

Meh. I made this my destination for this weekend and really wanted to try this famed chocolate chip cookie. Yeah, it’s huge, but no, I don’t think it tastes any better than anything I’ve ever made. The texture was great and the chocolate was tasty too, but the actual cookie wasn’t as deeply flavored as I had hoped and there was absolutely no salt on it (for some reason, b/​c of the NYC article, I figured there would be salt on it).
I also ordered four chocolates. They are tiny and about $ 1.60 each, but that’s still pretty reasonable I think. I had the port wine, the chai tea, the earl gray, and the raspberry. The earl gray was very subtle, so I was a bit disappointed. Chai was much stronger and I enjoyed it. The port was also on the subtle side, but I don’t love wine so that was more suitable to my taste. You could, however, taste the port. The raspberry was probably my favorite.
While I think these chocolates lacked a bit in their intensity, the texture of the chocolates was sublime. You can tell they’re hand crafted — the shells are slightly uneven in thickness/​imperfect (the actual outside is beautiful, but you can see the differences in the shell once you bite in). The mouthfeel of each chocolate was delicious so you will not be disappointed in that department.

Just for the chocolate chip cookie.
Actually it’s not just a normal chocolate chip cookie. It’s a big chocolate chip cookie that’s layered with chocolate! Now… how the hell does that work? Well it looks like a normal chocolate chip cookie from its appearance, and doesn’t look like it is anything special except for its size. However, once you take a bite and took a look at the cookie, you actually see that within the cookie there are different layers of chocolate in the chocolate chip cookie. The layers aren’t the same size as the cookie itself but more like chocolate chips that’s smashed or melted into the dough at strategic points so that every bite you get their smooth and decadent chocolate!
You can get it warmed so that it becomes a gooey and soft chocolate chip cookie. Our friend actually recommended it the way it was so we just grabbed the cookie to go without warming it up. Even without having it warmed, it was still a somewhat soft center with a crispy edge. The chocolate layers are a bit tough since it is hardened but it does not take away any of the smoothness. Once I took that first bite though, I knew we should’ve warmed the cookie up: P
Yes we probably should’ve tried to the hot chocolate drinks too but we were already too stuffed from eating so it’ll have to be next time.
In fact, next time, I’ll make sure to get several of these cookies, warmed! They actually sell a pack of the cookies on their website for $ 18. If it wasn’t for the high cost of shipping, I’d be eating these chocolate chip cookies right now.

A chocolate lovers dream come true!
Everything in this place smells, looks, and tastes amazing. The employees here are friendly and have a great sense of humor.
The chocolates are not too sweet, smooth, and flavorful. You can definitely taste the quality ingredients used.
The cookies are delicious. Slightly crisp around the edges and chewy in the middle with loads of ooey gooey chocolate chunks. If you like peanut butter, definitely try the Peanut Butter cookie. Homemade peanut butter with dark and milk chocolate chunks. Yum!
I am definitely a fan.

I recognized Jacques Torres’ name from his many accolades as a champion pastry chef and master of chocolate. Truth be told, I am not a chocoholic, as I prefer savory to sweet, so when I saw the Wicked Hot Chocolate I knew I found the perfect compromise for me.
Wicked Hot Chocolate contains additional ingredients of allspice, cinnamon, ground, sweet ancho chili peppers, and smoked, ground chipotle chili peppers. This is a melted chocolate drink, so the texture is thick and velvety as it slides down your throat. The spices add subtle heat to the hot beverage, which serves to reduce some of the cloying sweetness you might find in a regular hot chocolate.
After drinking my Wicked Hot Chocolate, I went back and purchased a can of Wicked Hot Chocolate mix so I can try and make it at home for my friends.

I had the regular hot chocolate. It was not awesome.
The chocolate truffles didn’t look super appetizing so I didn’t get any.

Welp, I didn’t go to the main branch but i did manage to get to the Chelsea Market location.
Jacques Torres Chocolate, as most people already know is popular by their wicked hot chocolate and their cookies.
However I believed it was best to try their delicacies in their original chocolate form, to see whether or not the hot chocolate (or anything else) is worth the purchase in the first place.
These were the chocolates I tried:
Cappuccino
Caramel Nut Noir
European Peanut Butter
Wicked Fun
Let’s start with the Wicked Fun, the chilies, didn’t quite do it for me. Yes it has a bit of a spice, but to mix it with this type of chocolate left a bitter taste in my mouth. Cappuccino was bursting in flavor, the caramel came out immediately after breaking out of its chocolate shell.
My two favorites are a tie between European Peanut Butter and Caramel Nut Noir. Think of the Caramel version as a higher end Ferrero Rocher but further refined with a nice crunch and its shaped like a square. The European Peanut Butter, was the perfect combination of chocolate and peanut butter. If you had to shrink Reese’s, embed a couple of gastronomy techniques, then you would have this masterpiece as the outcome.
Give me two dozen of the Nut Noir and Peanut Butter respectively. While I become nuttier than the Nutty Professor.

The chocolate chip cookie is a thing of legend, memorialized in part by the New York Times in 2008. If you’re in New York and have a hunkering for a chocolate chip cookie, go directly to Chelsea Market and find satisfaction and more at Jacques Torres. This is an awe-​inspiring cookie, made with chocolate discs instead of chips, which melt just beautifully and cover an optimal amount of surface area. The chocolate is dark and luscious and there is plenty of it, layered generously even within a pretty flat cookie. The rest of the cookie is just as irresistible, thin but wide and utterly chewy with a great browned flavor. This might be the best chocolate chip cookie I’ve ever eaten. It is not to be missed.
As for the rest of this store, I can’t speak to much. The display is mesmerizing, and the place is cute and clean, with a few places to sit. We bought a rather expensive box of tantalizing chocolates to eat later, but before we could dig in, the executive decision was made that it would be donated as a gift to relatives, which we had otherwise neglected to buy. Tragic, but I am certain that I’ll have another chance to try the chocolates, if only incidental to a reunion with the cookie.

We didn’t get to swing by Jacques Torres’ shop when we were in Brooklyn so I seized the opportunity to pop in this location as we were cruising around Chelsea Market.
Definitely more like a «booth» than full fledged shop but it had most of the essentials. We needed to bring a few gifts back home to Cali so I grabbed a box of mixed chocolates and 2 of their specialty Valentine’s Gift bags. And of course, a cup of their Wicked Hot Chocolate. SUPER rich, SUPER thick, and SUPER chocolatey :) We never can finish even half a cup between the two of us but that never stops me from getting one.
Hey – JT, ever thought of offering the Wicked Hot Chocolate as a shot??? :)

Yay! Jacques Torres Chocolates are now in Chelsea market!
They don’t have the same selection as the UWS (Like banana hot chocolate) but they do have Mud Slide cookies and all of their chocolate selections.
My favorite item at any location are their big, thick and chunky chocolate chip cookies @ 2.50 per pop. I never met a chocolate chip cookie that I didn’t like but with all of the cookie selections at Chelsea Market, This is my favorite of all time: P