Where to sip on the ultimate cup of hot chocolate around Seattle

Keep clicking for all the hot chocolate havens around Seattle we could find.
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Ranked as one of the 24 best chocolate shops in America by Eater, the Seattle-based chocolate shop led by chocolatier Erin Andrews settled into Pike Place Market in 2013. Beyond bars with origin stories out of places like Ecuador, Peru, and Guatemala, indi boasts single-origin drinking chocolates (which are exactly as the name suggests) for those who would rather sip on a personalized cup of molten chocolate showered with toppings of toasted marshmallow and orange. — Ranked as one of the 24 best chocolate shops in America by **Eater**, the Seattle-based chocolate shop led by chocolatier Erin Andrews settled into Pike Place Market in 2013.

Beyond bars with **origin stories** out of places like Ecuador, Peru, and Guatemala, indi boasts single-origin drinking chocolates (which are exactly as the name suggests) for those who would rather sip on a personalized cup of molten chocolate showered with toppings of toasted marshmallow and orange.
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If you've ever wandered along Fremont's Phinney Avenue North, you've likely caught a whiff or two of Theo's bean-to-bar chocolates cranking out nearby. The Seattle-based chocolatiers pride themselves on authentically-sourced chocolates, so much so that you can meet their cocoa farmers online. Enjoy peppermint drinking chocolate, topped off with plenty of plump dark chocolate peppermint marshmallows. — If you've ever wandered along Fremont's Phinney Avenue North, you've likely caught a whiff or two of **Theo's** bean-to-bar chocolates cranking out nearby. The Seattle-based chocolatiers pride themselves on authentically-sourced chocolates, so much so that you can **meet their cocoa farmers online**.

Enjoy peppermint drinking chocolate, topped off with plenty of plump dark chocolate peppermint marshmallows.
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With a Seattle holiday in December comes last minute gift shopping along 4th Avenue, crossed fingers the city evades a snowfall that sticks, downtown festivities attracting tipsy Santas and life-sized Gingerbread houses, and of course, the humble holiday chalice that is: a toasty mug of hot chocolate.

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It's time to bundle up and brave the Seattle showers to seek just that.

From spiced Mexican hot chocolates to a mug of molten s'mores hot chocolate topped with a plump toasted marshmallow, we've rounded up eight hot chocolate havens across the city for all manner of holiday sipping when the gift wrapping gets tough.

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Click through the slideshow above for all the hot spots we could find for your next cup of cocoa, and please, above all else, remember: here we've only got one rule, never ever let it cool.

Where to sip on the ultimate cup of hot chocolate around Seattle

Nestled in South Lake Union, Kakao serves up a house hot chocolate, flavored with goods like salted caramel and dark, luxury chocolates. You can also nab straight, sipping chocolate.

Sip on Hot Cakes Molten Cakery s'mores hot chocolate, located on Capitol Hill and Ballard.

El Diablo dishes out a mean Mexican hot chocolate in Queen Anne.

Seattle Coffee Works is a classic city spot for nabbing a cup downtown.

Settled in Queen Anne/Interbay, Chocolopolis dishes out decadent drinking chocolates.

Fran's Chocolates serves up gorgeously luscious mugs and drinking chocolate downtown, in Georgetown and within the University District.

While around downtown, Wallingford, Green Lake and Greenwood, nab some truffles and a famed cup of hot cocoa at Chocolati.

Cranking out cocoa in Queen Anne is that of Citizen Coffee, a delicious hub for a warm mug.

Ranked as one of the 24 best chocolate shops in America by Eater, the Seattle-based chocolate shop led by chocolatier Erin Andrews settled into Pike Place Market in 2013.

Beyond bars with origin stories out of places like Ecuador, Peru, and Guatemala, indi boasts single-origin drinking chocolates (which are exactly as the name suggests) for those who would rather sip on a personalized cup of molten chocolate showered with toppings of toasted marshmallow and orange.

If you've ever wandered along Fremont's Phinney Avenue North, you've likely caught a whiff or two of Theo's bean-to-bar chocolates cranking out nearby. The Seattle-based chocolatiers pride themselves on authentically-sourced chocolates, so much so that you can meet their cocoa farmers online.

Enjoy peppermint drinking chocolate, topped off with plenty of plump dark chocolate peppermint marshmallows.

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