"Food theme" cafes are on the rise! Cheese tarts, dark chocolate, what's next?

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Following the appearance of various cartoon character themes and various IP theme cafes, in recent years, there has also been a novel "food theme" cafe, which is also quietly emerging. Some of the more distinctive features include The Dark Gallery, a cafe specializing in dark chocolate drinks and desserts, and Pablo Cheese Tart, a cheese-themed cafe.

First bitter, then sweet, that is the taste of life, but also the delicacy of dark chocolate.

The Dark Gallery

The newly opened Dark Gallery is a cafe that rarely specialises in dark chocolate drinks and desserts. Founder Lai Yuhui (35) opened the first The Dark Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in March and the second store in Millenia Walk in Singapore in July. She is from Singapore, but she started from Kuala Lumpur. Because of the right rental and marketing environment, she hopes to create a Lion City brand that can compete with international brands.

She founded The Dark Gallery, featuring dark chocolate desserts.

Recommended Chocolate

The coffee trend now focuses on the source of coffee beans, emphasizing single coffee beans and popular hand-brewed coffee. Therefore, one of the features of The Dark Gallery is the recommended single origin dark chocolate and handmade chocolate. The so-called single-piece chocolate, Li said, is made from cocoa grown in a single place, and its properties will be affected by that geographical environment.

The coffee shop's single-item chocolate ice cream tasting tray is like an explanatory map listing the names of three single-item dark chocolates: Madagascar with 64% cocoa concentration, Dominican Republic with 70% cocoa concentration, Venezuela with 72% cocoa concentration, and their individual characteristics. Single dark chocolate ice cream is more layered than ordinary chocolate ice cream, bitter gradually sweet, rich in "bitter sweet" subtle.

The Dark Gallery's single chocolate ice cream tasting tray lets you taste three single dark chocolates while understanding their characteristics.

Interestingly, single-serve chocolate is described in a similar way to single-serve coffee: acidity, fruity, bitterness and strength index. For example: grapefruit fruity, floral, slightly spicy, sour, bitter.

For drinks, in addition to classic hot and cold chocolates, the cafe also has a special chocolate cube hazelnut latte. Pour double shot espresso into a cup filled with ice chocolate cubes according to your preferred coffee ratio and warm milk according to your preferred milk ratio. Rich chocolate, emitting coffee aroma.

A rich chocolate chip hazelnut latte.

In addition to tasting dark chocolate desserts, you can also recognize the background of dark chocolate. For example, the cafe will hold lectures, including chocolate appreciation sessions, chocolate making, etc., so that everyone can further understand the story behind chocolate.

Among chocolates, she prefers dark chocolate because "dark chocolate has the highest cocoa content compared to milk chocolate and white chocolate, and is closest to pure cocoa, which is a high nutritional 'superfood'."

At present, in addition to nearly 10 individual chocolates, coffee shops also have chocolates from all over the world, from South America to Africa, including famous brands such as Valrhona and Cacao Barry, as well as locally made chocolate brands. Here, you can taste 12 chocolate bonbons, eight chocolate bars and at least 10 chocolate ice cream.

Little chocolate chip cookies.

It wasn't because Li Xinhui was a chocolate fan that she opened a chocolate-themed cafe. She had only become attached to chocolate two years ago.

"I didn't particularly like chocolate before, and I wouldn't order chocolate drinks when I went to a cafe. Two years ago in San Francisco, at a cafe called Dandelion Cafe, I was amazed by the chocolate drinks and desserts!"

Lai believes chocolate has the potential to become, like coffee, the so-called "third wave" of coffee trends. "I'm often asked which country has the best chocolate. The quality of chocolate depends on many factors, such as the environment in which cocoa is grown and the way chocolate farmers grow it."

A variety of cheese, Japanese super popular Pablo cheese tart

Pablo Cafe

Pablo is a popular queue shop in Japan in recent years. It is reported that it sells a cheese tart every seven seconds on average. It is normal to queue for two or three hours to buy a cheese tart when it is hot. There are currently 38 stores in Japan and 9 overseas.

In addition to the signature grilled cheese tarts and mini cheese tarts, Pablo Cafe also has a variety of cheese foods, fully demonstrating the variety of cheese.

Pablo's signature cheese tarts.

For example, cheese ice cream (soft serve ice cream), cheese French layer pie, matcha cheese French layer pie and so on.

Interestingly, in addition to cheese desserts, you can also drink cheese drinks here. For example, the rare cheese smoothie "classic cheese tart smoothie".

Cheese shakes from Pablo.

Pablo was founded by Masamitsu Sakamoto (37 years old) of Osaka, Japan. When he attended the opening ceremony of Pablo Cafe Lion City, he once talked about Japan's popular food culture of eating cheese tarts: "Japan's trend is very fast. When one brand of food succeeds, other brands appear, which will spread to other countries."

Although there are different brands of cheese tarts on the market, the company does not think of them as competing with each other, but each has its own way of doing it.

Cafe is about to launch new Matcha and Chocolate-flavored mini cheese tarts.

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