Food Adventure II: The Chocolate Cottage

While we were upstate M and I had a little girl time and went to The Chocolate Cottage in Watertown, NY. (They apparently don't have a website but see this article about them.) I had the Banana Carmel Cream Tart and M had the Dark Chocolate Cup (which is filled with a wonderful chocolate mousse).

From the outside this place looks like a regular house. Entering through the back sliding glass doors was a little weird because you feel like you are going into a stranger's house. However, when you enter the actual dining area you feel like you are in the cutest little European tea house. We had a pot of tea with our yummy sweets and they brought it in the prettiest teapot I think I have ever seen (which I did not take a picture of! doh!). Our tea cups did not match the tea pot, but I did not mind one bit, it was so charming. We had a lovely little table near the window and our waitress was so friendly and sweet.

They were having a little girl's birthday party (I think anyway) in the separate front room. The menu mentions that you can request a traditional tea for parties or meetings. The girls all seemed to be having a lot of fun with it.

On our way out we got a few goodies to take home to the boys (including a box for the rest of M's chocolate cup, which was too big for us to finish!). M got a huge chocolate chip cookie and some truffles for A and I got a box of different chocolates for Chris and I to share. The chocolates (assorted truffles and caramels) were very decadent and delicious. Next to The Candyman** in Greenport, NY, they were the best chocolates I've had in a long time.

I hope that next time we get to visit A&M we also get to visit The Chocolate Cottage.

**The Candyman apparently does not have a website either. What's with these chocolate shops? Anyway, if you are on the North Fork of Long Island at anytime in your life, stop at the Candyman, you will not regret it.