Wildly renouned internal coffee sequence Dark Matter will betray a new Mexican celebration chocolate-focused Avondale cafeteria on Thursday, according to a rep. Caravanserai, located only opposite a travel from a strange Kuma’s Corner, will underline a flow over bar that highlights surprising recipes and techniques from Mexico City-based partner La Rifa Chocolatería, as good as a preference of pastries, sweets, and tamales.
Caravanserai staff will order odd chocolatey drinks done from pre-colonial recipes that eschew divert in preference of belligerent cocoa, sugar, and H2O that is aerated by hand, a routine that creates “a some-more normal chocolate style,” Dark Matter owner Jesse Diaz wrote in an email. The emporium will also underline a Leva lift espresso bar. A full splash menu is accessible below.
The cafe’s food selections embody a daily rotating menu of tamales from Otoniel Michel of essential Mexican grill Estrella Negra, and on weekends congregation can try his signature pozole. Customers can also design a “playful” preference of honeyed treats and pastries from internal partners including West Town Bakery and Do-Rite Donuts.
The bright, colorful cafeteria seats 60 during low and high-top tables, along with 4 spots along a tall, tiled espresso bar. Potted dried plants line a bar and dot a space, and a walls bear vivid, hyper-realistic murals by internal artist Jason Brammer, desirous by Mexico’s San Cristóbal. Artists Ceaser Perez and Rodrigo Oñate Roco embellished additional murals, including a snarling panther in a restroom.
Dark Matter’s Chicago footprint seems ever-increasing: a team non-stop a “Coffee Cold” bodega in West Town in May and announced skeleton for a new Avondale cafe 3 months later. “With a multiple of Latin and Eastern European ethnicities in a neighborhood, there was an evident tie [with Avondale],” Diaz wrote. He also remarkable Dark Matter’s contentment of friends in a area, including Beer Temple, Kuma’s, and German travel food lorry DönerMen.
Members of a La Rifa group will be onsite for a opening to share their believe and knowledge with customers. “As coffee roasters, we have always been desirous by chocolate, as a dual share countless processing, sourcing, and business practices,” Diaz wrote. “This organic attribute [with La Rifa] is really moving to us and we are anxious to be means to support them.”
Hot chocolate is a healthy remedy to murky Chicago winters, and a city has plenty of creative, rich, and colorful cups — including Mexican varieties — to offer. The total bravery of Dark Matter and La Rifa, however, means Avondale’s newest charity could pull chocoholics from opposite a city.
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Caravanserai, 2901 W. Belmont Avenue, Open 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday by Sunday.