Atulea Like Add to a List
Vince Shi and Kathy Wang's stylish Capitol Hill tea shop has put their own twist on hot chocolate by mixing it with genmaicha (brown rice green tea) and topping it with mini marshmallow bits.
Capitol Hill
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Cafe Pettirosso Like Add to a List
Cozy up with a cup of hot chocolate crowned with the beloved Capitol Hill standby's toasted house-made mallow.
Capitol Hill
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Cafe Presse Like Add to a List and Le Pichet Like Add to a List
If you haven't already heard the sad news, Capitol Hill's iconic French spot Cafe Presse is closing next month Like Add to a List after a 15-year run, which is all the more reason to hightail it over there for a cup of their thick, rich, Parisian-style chocolate chaud topped with whipped cream. Luckily, the dessert-worthy favorite is also available at Presse's sibling restaurant Le Pichet in Pike Place, and owner Jim Drohman has shared the recipe on his blog so that you can recreate the magic at home.
Capitol Hill 
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Chocolati
This Seattle cafe specializes in artisan chocolate, and their unparalleled hot chocolate is rich and creamy and comes in a variety of flavors, from peanut butter to salted caramel to Aztec. The "Dark Vader" (raspberry and dark chocolate) is an especially popular menu item.
Various locations
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Chocolat Vitale Like Add to a List
Chocolat Vitale serves up "a sinfully rich" hot chocolate that finds its origins in a distinctly European style of hot chocolate. They also offer small-batch chocolates, wines, and specialty teas.
Ballard
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Fran's Chocolates
This family-owned chocolate company's 68% single-origin Venezuelan drinking chocolate is extra luxurious.
Various locations
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Hot Cakes
The molten chocolate dessert emporium will let you order their luxurious Valrhona sipping chocolate with or without the booze of your choice.
Ballard, Capitol Hill
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Indi Chocolate Like Add to a List
The small-batch artisan chocolatier's cafe serves single-origin drinking chocolate, which can be customized with your choice of milk and with add-ons like lavender cacao syrup and chai marshmallows. The online store also offers their drinking chocolate in cube form on a stick—stir it into a mug of warm milk to recreate the drink at home.
Pike Place Market 
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Oddfellows
Big, fluffy house-made marshmallows float atop Oddfellows's house hot cocoa.
Capitol Hill
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Peony Bakery Like Add to a List
This small bakery business run by an elementary school teacher sells hot cocoa bombs made with house-made triple chocolate, cocoa powder, and mini marshmallows. They also have flavors like matcha, taro, hojicha, and "winter snowflake" (peppermint white chocolate mocha filled with edible glitter, snowy sprinkles, crushed peppermint, and marshmallows).
Belltown
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Rey Amargo Chocolate Shop Like Add to a List
This cafe, started by a chocolate company based in Jalisco, Mexico, serves a dizzying array of high-quality drinking chocolates, including classic hot chocolate, iced drinks and frappes, Aztec- and Mayan-inspired versions, and French and Spanish hot chocolate.
Capitol Hill
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Shug's Soda Fountain
Old-timey soda shoppe Shug's Soda Fountain puts their signature twist on hot cocoa with a Gran Gran's Cocoa float, with house-made cocoa, a scoop of vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, and a dusting of cocoa powder. Add Bailey's, Kahlua, or Frangelico for extra coziness. For those who prefer the traditional, there's also regular hot cocoa with housemade marshmallows or whipped cream.
Downtown
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Theo Chocolate Like Add to a List
The local chocolate company's signature dark drinking chocolate is the real deal, made with 55% single-origin dark chocolate. A peppermint variation is also available.
Fremont
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