The Chocolate Room: a cafe that's dedicated to chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate!
Updated in March 2020
Great news about vegan options in The Chocolate Room!
I went to Hakkaland for dinner and wanted something sweet after. Luckily for us, they didn’t have any vegan options for dessert! Why do I say luckily? Is it a typo? No. It was lucky because it made us pop into The Chocolate Room. I thought I’d be ordering a lovely trio of mini hot chocolates but when we got there we realised that they have a new vegan menu, which includes chocolate fudge cake!
Dessert at The Chocolate Room
We ordered the chocolate fudge cake with ice cream and asked for the cake to be warmed. It was so delicious!
The Chocolate Room in Harrow
The Chocolate Room is a cosy place with comfy seating and lots and lots of treats.
From Australia to India and now the UK, The Chocolate Room provides a chocolate café experience.
You'll find a huge range of flavoured hot chocolates, of which, the majority are vegan by accident, as long as you ask them to make it with plant-based milk.
Here's the vegan menu
My favourite is this getting 3 shots of hot chocolate, each of a different flavour. That way I can get one that I know I like and try 2 others. In a small glass like this, it doesn't feel so naughty.
They also make paninis. The one with hummus, roasted peppers, spinach and basil is vegan. They have a couple of vegan chocolates too.
"Vegans won't find a vegan hot chocolate anywhere!"
The Chocolate Room has proved the above to be wrong.
The hot chocolate in Starbucks is fine if you use vegan milk and don't add whipped cream.
Costa may tell you their hot chocolate isn't vegan but it's worth asking to check the ingredients of the packet. I say this because I was told it wasn't vegan but that's because of the risk of contamination and not the actual ingredients of the power. You could also check out Luci's vegan guide to Costa.
Caffe Nero's hot chocolate is currently vegan. Luci's created a detailed guide to help you work out what's vegan, or can be made vegan, when you're in Nero.
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