Where the Locals Eat Rating
Best Café
Top 100 Restaurant, Chicago
"An urban café and dessert experience featuring critically acclaimed pastry chef Mindy Segal's personal renditions of classic American food and the sweets that inspired Chicago magazine to name her 'The Best Pastry Chef in Chicago.'"
–Hot Chocolate website
"Heretofore Mindy Segal has been best known for her stints as pastry chef at MK, MK North, Marche, Charlie Trotter's, and Spago, but at Hot Chocolate Segal serves a small, perpetually rotating dinner menu of seasonally inspired creations. ... Of course, Segal's credentials guarantee an impressive dessert list."
– Chicago Reader
"Don't let the name fool you–it's not just desserts here; the seasonal savory menu is just as tempting."
– Time Out Chicago magazine
"There is no way they can put a damper on the din here. Noisy, cramped, sometimes out of control. If you can deal with that, enjoy the creative food (and the creative hot chocolate drinks)."
– Chicago Sun-Times
Full bar. Serving lunch Wed–Fri, dinner Tue–Sun. Sat–Sun brunch 10 am-2 pm. Closed Mon.
How Others Rate Hot Chocolate
Zagat 2009
24 Food Rating (Very Good to Excellent)
James Beard Foundation
Mindy Segal, Outstanding Pastry Chef nominee 2007-2009 (national)
Chicago Reader
Best Dessert, 2009 Readers' Poll