Chocolate Haus — Local services in San Diego

I have this philosophy where smaller shops are the best shops for their focus on you is optimized while the environment is not as engaged as larger locations. Larger locations such as Denny's or Islands can easily dismiss who you are and however many times you've been. But in smaller shops you are easily identified, and they learn to respect, appreciate, and befriend your presence.

I've tried their hot chocolate, the majority of their chocolate assortment, and their ice cream. Beginning with the chocolate, I've learned that an individual batch is concocted via two days time, and topped off with whimsical decoration. I'd like to describe their texture creamy, dense and smooth with a foundation of subtle-sweetness; each batch carrying a different personality of flavour. They all equally melt into your mouth and emanate fresh mouth-watering aromas.

They have these lavender truffles that are but very curious when tasting them. The nirvana are my favourite sort.

The filling in these truffles are so satisfactory that it is strongly comparable to gliding silk over your tongue.

Now when ordering my chocolate tea, I watched as a thick block of chocolate was shaved into my drink. The beverage was very sweet and filling. It was hot chocolate as it is, but sweeter. Perhaps even a little too sweet, but I liked it. I'd although recommend not consuming any other sweet thing before the drink. As aforementioned, it's pretty sweet.

I stopped by later for ice cream, and it was the right amount of soft and thick, not at all fluffy. I've only had two sorts: the key lime and chocolate with chunks of brownie (chocolate brownie chunk?). But you can bite into it and it would give you unoverwhelming, cooling mouthfuls. It's not too sweet, not too plain (take a good comparison between Thrifty's and Baskin Robbins). The flavour is enough to sate any cravoury, as it had with mine. I'm rather full now, actually.

It's not too gourmet. You've got your basic and popular flavours, like cookies and cream, chocolate and coconut. There is about a dozen flavours to choose from.

The employees are easy and fun to talk to. They are also a considerate people. During my first visits I was given a surprise sample with my orders.

It is pricey as it should be. A lot of homemade effort has been put into...

A little hole in the wall place on a busy street. I live in the area and pass by it regularly. I rarely see any customers inside so I thought it might be struggling since the pandemic and decided to stop by. I was immediately greeted by a polite and quirky cashier. Inside there is a display case with a variety of chocolates, all equally priced. I was very surprised by the price, $2.50 per chocolate truffle. Nevertheless, I bought a 5 pack of truffles for $13 (shouldn't it be $12.50 or less?), trusting that it would be worth it. I got a Mocha Kahlua truffle, a Raspberry truffle, and a few others and they all tasted exactly the same. Apart from exterior decorations, they were all just a hunk of milk or dark chocolate. Raspberry flavor, Kahlua flavor, was literally undetectable. Definitely not...

When my wife and I walked in, the OWNER was staffing the counter and he completely IGNORED us, looking at nothing but his phone. Didn't say hi for over a minute. I had to say hi to him first to get his attention and he seemed very disinterested. I considered informing his manager about the poor service, but when he told me he was the owner, I was shocked! I think he's owned it for too long and is too comfortable to value every person who walks in. The toffee was so-so, but for such a bad service experience, I'll probably...