Mérida, Mexico
Paseo de Montejo 490, Zona Paseo Montejo, Centro
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+529994060868
Exelent Cacao/chocolate great introduction and service. I Highly recommend it!
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Nice place to try or buy cacao and chocolate. They give free quick tours in Spanish and also I think in English. Charming little place
Very informative tour. Samples of different products are free. A good place to buy souvenir cocoa bars for friends... lots of different flavors. Free tour. They are still working on displays and there's no public washroom at the time of this writing.
Very small museum with free tours that end in a tiny gift shop with everything cocoa. We enjoyed it. Bought delicious Mexican chocolate which did NOT melt in my bag in 100 outdoors, cocoa butter and cocoa powder.
This place is a scam. They'll tell you the process chocolate by hand in the traditional way. The reality is they aren't taking basic steps common to traditional and european methods. First they don't separate the husk from the nib after cracking (winnowing) second they aren't roasting after fermentation which is important to destroy mold still growing on the beans after fermentation. They also tell you they remove fat from the chocolate so it doesn't melt as easily, but they say it's a secret as to how they do that. The only way that's done is through with an industrial hydraulic press, but it's doubtful they're doing that. Also, the tour guides aren't even aware of the different cultivars of cacao aside from the 3 major groupings (criollo, forestero, trinitaro). The reality is this place is just offering free tours to get you into a show room where they sell you a bad product for 10 dollars a bar. They're just taking fermented beans and grinding them into a paste most likely on a molino. There are great companies that do authentic traditional cacao (Taza is one of them) but these guys are not that. Avoid this place. More than anything this chocolate is likely to get you sick.
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