Choco Pick — Local services in Santo Domingo

We got to visit this place by a tour guide that took us from our resort. The place is a bit tiny but very welcoming. The girl gave us a tour and samples of pretty much everything we asked for. I immediately loved the hot chocolate and chocolate tea so we bought that as well as their coconut chocolate liqueur. I bought the cocoa beans caramelized but they were stalled so that was disappointing and the hot chocolate well… I’m confused as to what all that powder is… I got added water as instructed but the hot chocolate I sampled did not look like this . It’s not dissolving. I had to use more than half the pack (i bought the small pack but it comes full) to try to get it to even taste like regular hot chocolate . I couldn’t drink it, there was too much of the powder graining on my teeth. But cool place to visit. Try some samples and I definitely recommend...

We experienced the most interesting, genuine, cultural experience in La Casa del Chocolate in Santo Domingo. We had the pleasure to make chocolate from scratch with Marshall, the owner of the shop. He was very professional, kind, patient, made us feel comfortable and knew exactly what he was doing. We did not see the time flying because his love and passion of making chocolate took over and was definitely infused in us. His employees are very knowledgeable and well trained. You want to try something out of the ordinary, please visit La Casa del chocolate. Did you know cocoa tea existed? It was delicious. I will definitely take my son to this shop to make his own...

Our group did the 20 minute chocolate making workshop. I'd say we spent an hour all together at the business. Our guide was great and spoke English. One of our Dominican friends was with us so another guide explained everything in Spanish too. This was the highlight for our kids on this trip to Santo Domingo. I highly recommend this for families. Also I see a 1 star review about things bought in the store that don't taste good. Everything we purchased was fantastic the tea and chocolate. The free samples are delicious as well. I...