The Chocolate Lounge

A tiny treasure on the top floor of Harvey Nic’s. Love the conveyor belt style service. The staff are very pleasant and friendly. However, the place is quite small therefore the queue for a seat can be long. Once you’re seated the service is quick. Had Prosecco and the boozy fondue with Bailey’s. The chocolate was of good quality and the fruit was fresh and ripe. I would recommend this place for chocoholics. There’s so many indulgent choices on their menu. Can’t wait to return and try their ice cream!

It’s a special treat when I have one of my good friends visiting me… And we are friends for a reason, we like our wine and chocolate… Yes sir! So for a n afternoon treat, I took her here so we can continue catching up with the chat, laugh, and talk about more crazy stuff. Ha!
This place is a cute little dessert bar that has many different desserts on their menu. It’s not the greatest dessert place, but I like their gimmick and menu items. They sell many different kid friendly items like sundaes, brownies, cupcakes, milkshakes as well as for grown people like champaign, wine and treats with various types of alcohol. You can get sundaes with different liquor or milkshakes with a shot of alcohol of your desire.
My friend shared a boozy fondue… Basically the chocolate had Irish cream, perfect to dip marshmallows, strawberries, popcorn and brownies in. For drinks we stayed classy and got prosecco. This kept us with a good warm feeling and continues the merry atmosphere.
Since the place is small, the queue for a place to sit took awhile, but it was worth the wait. You can’t get reservations, so you’ll have to deal with waiting. The staff get real busy but they are responsive to their customers’ needs, so kudos to them.
The price is ok… Can get pricey. The fondue we ordered was £12.50 and the prosecco was £5.50. The Sundaes cost around £5.50-£7 and chocolate drinks with alcohol is about £10−12. So this place is really just got special times, unless you got £££ to drop.

A chocolate delight!
You sit on bar stools watching various confectionaries and bottles of bubbly winding their way round the counter in a Yo Sushi fashion. Thankfully there’s nothing fishy about the Chocolate Lounge… apart from the smoked salmon bagel with sparkly chilli jam… lush doesn’t even come close!
So the savouries are great… now for the main event! The chocolate is awesome! The fondue for one is a challenge — so much chocolate, so much to dunk… go for the mix of white and dark as it’s brilliant!
The sundaes are also to die for… a towering glass of magnificence… with a pot of melted chocolate to add to whatever creation you’ve plucked from the ridiculously tempting menu.
Go to the Chocolate Lounge with an empty stomach and leave a few pounds lighter, a few pound heavier and so much happier!

Oooh the Chocolate Lounge is just a chocoholics dream! Situated on the 4^th Floor in Harvey Nics, it’s quite small but well worth a visit.
There is a conveyor belt (like Yo Sushi!) but it’s mini bottles of bubbles and chocolate treats that circle past you :)
It’s not a cheap experience — ice cream sundaes are about £8 and the super delicious chocolate fondue is £10.95 (I recommend getting half white & half dark chocolate for dunking) but you could share this, depending on how much of a sharing mood you are in?!
The savoury food we had to start was very tasty too — the salmon bagel was delish and the smoked chicken salad was huge.

Let this be a cautionary tale to every man, everywhere: If you tell a girl that there is a «champagne and chocolate bar right around the corner», her eyes will light up and you will be forced to go. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Lucky for me, my male companion was more than happy to oblige me.
«Chocolate! Champagne! *gasp* DO THEY HAVE ORANGE JUICE?!» I exclaimed. Would by search for the mimosa be over (FYI to Americans — It’s hard as hell to find a proper one in the UK. Believe me, I looked several places and each came up short)?
The Chocolate Lounge is located inside the Harvey Nichols in Edinburgh and features a wide range of cocktails, mocktails, coffee and a decadent food menu with most items having some sort of chocolate take on them. And, let me tell you, even reading the menu is mouth-​watering, ranging from chocolate sandwiches to chocolate fondue, breakfast items to lunch dishes with a sweet twist. While I’m not usually a someone who is into pink (SO MUCH PINK), I will happily overlook all of that for this place. If the menu isn’t appetizing enough, there is a small conveyer belt that runs around the whole lounge with premade sweets on it. You’re not supposed to eat them but you can get fresh versions of anything that goes by.
And if you were wondering… I ordered a mimosa, which was made to perfection, garnished with a strawberry and floated down to me on said belt.

The Chocolate Lounge is a great alternative to normal tea & cake.
Situated on the top floor of Harvey Nichols, the lounge is more like a sushi bar — except the cakes and miniature champagne bottles circle rather than fish!
The cakes are absolutely gorgeous — very precisely made and decorated with fondant shapes, glitter, cream, etc. They also have large cakes, chocolate sandwiches and desserts that you can order if you’d rather not have cupcakes.
The cupcakes on rotation are for display purposes only, you order yours fresh. For me personally, this is all about the experience. The cakes are nice but they’re a little dry. My cocktail, the Malibu Coconutini (Malibu, Bailey’s, chocolate liqueur) was strong but utterly beautiful, am served in a chocolate and coconut rimmed glass.
There is a bit of a wait as seats are limited, but its a great experience and the cocktails are amazing.