Assorted Chocolates from Jacques Torres

By FoodMayhem   Jan 06, 2008

My friend Sara received a huge amount of Jacques Torres chocolate during the holidays and was sweet enough to share them with us. Lon and I are generally big fans of Jacques Torres. I've had cookies, hot chocolate, and other chocolate coated goodies, always a great treat. My friend Angie is a huge fan of the cookie mixes he sells and I love the atmosphere at Hudson Street location. We're now half way through the box of assorted chocolates and are surprised to find that we're not impressed. The chocolates aren't bad, just not that good either, and definitely not worth $55 per box. We're also surprised at the lack of attention to detail.... FULL REVIEW

Hot Chocolate: the Ultimate Shopper's Respite

By Ed Levine Eats   Dec 22, 2007

When and if you go shopping on the Upper West Side today consider the following hot chocolate pitstops. Jacques Torres (Amsterdam between 73rd and 74th): No surprises here. The man knows how to make a serious cup of hot chocolate.... FULL REVIEW

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Summer Snack

By Sweet Freak   Aug 06, 2007

Another irresistible treat from Mr. Chocolate. When you’ve been a New Yorker for some time, chances are you’ve warmed up more than one cold winter moment with a cup of Jacques Torres’s wicked hot chocolate. So what to do in a summer of soaring temperatures? Dig into the polar opposite: an ice cream sandwich. Made with homemade ice cream and chocolate chip cookies, these frozen sandwiches give credence to the expression of two great tastes tasting great together. The cookies: loaded with bricks of thick dark chocolate. The ice cream flavors, they vary according to what Torres is creating in his factory. Rotating options include... FULL REVIEW

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A Day with (some) of My Friends...

By The Wandering Eater   Dec 21, 2006

When it comes to hot chocolate there's only one who's really the best so far, in my opinion, and that's Jacques Torres' Chocolate Haven in SoHo. I must admit the mudslide cookie is divine. It's very, very chocolatey and sweet (but not tooth-achingly sweet) with chunks of walnuts. I should have asked them to warm it up a bit so the cookie would be a bit softer and gooier. But anyways, I just can't seem to replicate this recipe at home. I mean, if I'm in serious need of a chocolate kick, this cookie would be an awesome way to satiate my craving. The Wicked Hot Chocolate is very chocolatey with great body and it has a nice spicy kick in the background. FULL REVIEW

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Jacques Torres Chocolate Haven

By Sweet Napa   Oct 05, 2006

I love Jacques Torres’s fascination with chocolate-covered cereal. Thanks to him and my chocolate tempering skills, I snacked on homemade clusters of chocolate-covered cornflakes on most days after culinary school. FULL REVIEW

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Cookies and Sweets Galore!

By The Wandering Eater   Sep 23, 2006

Jacques Torres' Manhattan establishment, Chocolate Haven, is a heaven for chocophiles. If you ever come here for the summer or any hot day, you must try the ice cream sandwich. It's not like those ice cream sandwiches you get from your local market. The cookies are crisp, not at all soggy and it's packed with lots of creamy ice cream. The chocolate chunk cookie was extremely chocolatey, crisp on the edges, pliant, soft and chewy on the middle, and buttery; it was superb. When it came to the brownie, I was expecting a fudgy brownies from this place but it turned out to be cakey in texture and a bit too sweet. And I happen to love sweets but it was a bit too cloying for me. FULL REVIEW

The Ultimate Chocolate Eclair

By Salli Vates   Sep 16, 2006

If there's a better chocolate éclair than the one at Jacques Torres, I haven't found it. Chocolate cream, fluffy as pudding, is generously piped into a moist, eggy éclair shell, one half of which is thinly coated with what amounts to an entire semisweet chocolate bar criss-crossed with white chocolate. Why did I only buy one? FULL REVIEW

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Princeton Sammiches Better Than NYC Sammiches

By Clean Plate Club   Sep 12, 2006

Maybe the greatest thing about ice cream sandwiches is their dumb, proletariat simplicity – two soft, vaguely chocolate-flavored wafers (always with six with mysterious dimples) that fall apart under the heat of your grubby fingers, flanking a slab of extra-sugary, anti-premium, vanilla-flavored ice cream. I mean, it’s practically iconic. Plus, they’re super-cheap, and always available for supermarket bulk purchasing. And the wafers are expertly designed to give under the pressure of your teeth, meaning the ice cream rarely shoots out the sides and onto your pants. And they remind me of elementary school, which was a totally badass half-decade for me. FULL REVIEW

Jacques Torres

By Ganjin Girl's Guide to Chinatown   Sep 03, 2006

Specializing in gourmet chocolates, Jacques Torres offers bonbons, truffles, and other chocolate goodies – all slightly higher in quality than Max Brenners (and not as flamboyantly creative). Though not worth a special trip across town, the staff is sweet - and the signature hot chocolate is strikingly rich. (The original shoppe is in Dumbo, at 66 Water Street.) FULL REVIEW

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I Have Found the Ice Cream Sandwich of my dreams

By Ed Levine Eats   Aug 29, 2006

I have found the ice cream sandwich of my dreams at Jacques Torres Chocolate Haven,350 Hudson St. 212-414-2462. This photo, courtesy of Flickr, is of Torres' hazelnut ice cream sandwich, but I wanted to give you an idea of what his ice cream sandwiches look like. FULL REVIEW

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Food tour for non-diabetics: Jacques Torres, Levain, Billy's, La Bergamote, and Chelsea Market

By The Girl Who Ate Everything   Aug 07, 2006

I just attempted to toss an empty box of Pocky (or rather, an empty box of air where Pocky had once existed) into the trash bin about 3 feet away from my seat. For the second it was airborne, its direction cruelly shifted from "straight into the trash bin" into "floor space slightly left of the trash bin". My failure in aiming was noted by the box making a sad "kadonk" sound. Note for future trash tossing: must account for the windshift that exists in that small space between my seat and the trash bin. FULL REVIEW

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Back to Temple, some chocolate, Chinese take-out craving, scared of Paris

By The Girl Who Ate Everything   Jul 07, 2006

I'm not necessarily back on the "eat everything" trail, but a plate of various cooked vegan-friendly foodstuffs for the grand sum of $4.29 from my second visit to Temple in the Village served my appetite well. My digestion feels fine after having to deal with the most cooked food I've eaten in a week. (Lunch consisted of an orange, a banana, and a smidgen of my mum's Larabar. I found that I don't have a problem eating a fruit meal as long as I get some kind of nut/dried fruit snack at the end.) FULL REVIEW

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Burning with deliciousness, Mexican food, and other randomness

By The Girl Who Ate Everything   Mar 02, 2006

I bought a round, crusty golden loaf of sourdough bread at the Union Square market this afternoon. It diminished to less than half of its size over the rest of the day. Behold, the magical disappearing loaf of bread! It's allll magic! Plus this chef's knife! And this pesto! And this knife to spread the pesto! And this girl who can't stop slicing the bread, slathering it with pesto, and popping it like coke! (If coke isn't popped, ignore my naivete.) MAGIC. FULL REVIEW

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Valentines Day Chocolates - Jacques Torres Chocolates

By Plate of the Day   Jan 22, 2006

Valentine’s day seems to come earlier every year - especially for chocolate stores! Was walking around DUMBO today and passed by the Jacques Torres Chocolate factory on Washington street. The Valentines day decorations are full blown - you can see the hearts hanging off the ceiling from the street. (Sorry for the fuzzy photo - there was just so many people going in and out of the chocolate store) FULL REVIEW

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Chocolate Haven tour

By Su Good Sweets   Nov 16, 2005

As promised, here’s an extended tour of Jacques Torres Chocolate Haven in Manhattan.  Part storefront, part chocolate factory, an outside glance of the building showcases its industrial side. FULL REVIEW

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My unrefined palate + heavenly curry pan

By The Girl Who Ate Everything   Nov 08, 2005

While we usually just taste wine in my Beverages class (procedure: swish in mouth, suck in some air, swish around some more, spit out), today we had to drink (procedure: swallow) it for our "Food and Wine" segment. Damn. Drink. Process of allowing wine to travel down my esophagus instead of the inside of my spitoon. I'm sure the amount of wine I've actually consumed on purpose over my lifetime has amounted to less than half a cup, yet here I was around 11 AM, told to try nine wines with an array of different foods. Obviously, we had to take small sips and bites to get through everything, but I found it semi-torturous. FULL REVIEW

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Sample NYC food itinerary

By The Girl Who Ate Everything   Jul 24, 2005

I think I'll start making up a Be Rachel Ray For a Day $40 eating itinerary in NYC. I don't think I'll actually use $40 since that would probably make people explode. But. Hmmmm. I'm calling my food itinerary, "for the person who isn't allergic to anything, likes Asian food, baked goods, sweets, and can eat lots of sugar without resembling a jackhammer or feeling nauseous." It's a long title, I know. It doesn't include many drinks (probably just one) since I don't drink much besides water. SO. Water is not included; bring your own bottle. FULL REVIEW

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Links + cake

By The Girl Who Ate Everything   Jun 30, 2005

I wanted to go to sleep, but I decided to blog instead. FULL REVIEW

Chomper Romper Room: Jacques Torres's Chocolate Haven

By The Amateur Gourmet   Jun 17, 2005

There is the kid in all of us and then there is the kid that's not in all of us. The kid in all of us loves chocolate and Willy Wonka and brightens at the very idea of Jacques Torres's Chocolate Haven: FULL REVIEW

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so much food, WHY?

By The Girl Who Ate Everything   Jun 17, 2005

I didn't really say that (although it's not that far off from how I normally speak in semi-caveman tongue), but Mary did half-jokingly ask me what diet I was on. My "diet" for the past month was not eating wheat, but since I ate the oobanyaki and today was "the day of massive fooding", I figured eating wheat wouldn't hurt. To put things in perspective, I don't drink alcohol, coffee, or soda, don't smoke, don't take drugs, and don't do anything massively unhealthy besides sitting on my butt most of the time while surfing the Internet and letting my brain cells die off while developing carpal tunnel syndrome. FULL REVIEW

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Jacques Torres Chocolate Haven New York

By Plate of the Day   Apr 23, 2005

Jacques Torres is one of my idol pastry chefs and when it comes to chocolate deserts, he is one of the pioneers in the field (I am still saving up for a class at the French Culinary Institute here in New York) Anyhow on the way to a gallery opening, Sing and I stumbled upon his factory / cafe down on Hudson (off of Varick) in the west village. It’s kind of a strange space with open views of the factory and the workers: FULL REVIEW

Jacques Torres Chocolate Store

By Gotham Gal   Nov 11, 2004

I had to do it.  I usually frequent the Grey Dog on Thursday afternoons with our middle daughter, Emily, before picking up our youngest, Josh at bball.  Today was a different day.  FULL REVIEW

Perennial Favorite Thing: Jacques Torres

By The Hedonista   May 27, 2004

When a guy owns the domain name "MrChocolate.com," he'd better know his chocolate. It's quite a proclamation. He'd better bleed chocolate. When it comes to Jacques Torres, I wouldn't be surprised. FULL REVIEW

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