Good thing it's a leap year when February is hot chocolate month!

The month of February holds a lot of things for a lot of people.  For kids & teachers, it means a week off of school for President's week. For Hallmark & select females, it means cards & roses on Valentine's Day.  For snowboard enthusiasts, it means weekend trips out to Vermont or the Poconos.  For me - it means hot chocolate month at City Bakery!

Every February, City Bakery has their hot chocolate month 28 (this year 29 thanks to the Leap Year!)  This year, we planned to go one day over President's Day Weekend and decided to go on February 19th, which was Sunken Treasure day.  The lines were longer than usual, which I attribute to a combination of it being hot chocolate month and also President's Day, when most people were on holiday.

We decided to go all out today and get TWO cookies - one of the traditional chocolate chip cookies that makes everyone's top 10 list, and the double chocolate one.  Between those two cookies and the hot chocolate, we were definitely in chocolate overload.  But it's just SO GOOD here!  I am fairly certain the sunken treasures in the hot chocolate were caramels, but all I could taste and smell and see was chocolate everywhere so I really can't be sure.

City Bakery has a great chocolate selection (obviously the cookies and hot chocolate are the most common) but they also have a cafe in back where you can get soup, salad, and sandwiches.  All of the food looks amazing, and every table of both floors of this two-story cafe were filled.  I would definitely recommend coming here for lunch, or to bring food back to your office (they have a salad bar where you can get things to go).


City Bakery is located at 3 West 18th street, right off of 5th Avenue.  They have a sister location called Birdbath, that I actually stumbled into one time and recognized the cookies and knew they were related!
www.thecitybakery.com