Ah, winter — aka time for a cup of hot chocolate. There’s no arguing that a nice cup of hot chocolate always does the trick to warm you up — that’s why we’ve rounded up some of the best places to get a cup of hot chocolate in Hoboken and Jersey City. Keep reading if you want more than a typical cup of Swiss Miss and more of the traditional hot chocolate.
Disclaimer: This is a growing list. please email [email protected] if you know of another restaurant that serves it! Please also contact the restaurants directly to confirm that the drink hasn’t been removed from the menu.
Hoboken
Blue Eyes | 525 Sinatra Drive
Blue Yes has hot chocolate on its menu but the Nutella Cappuccino is too good not to mention. Just think of this as a little bonus if you want a bit more pizzazz on your list because — NUTELLA.
Bluestone Lane | 409 Washington Street
Bluestone Lane has delish coffee, juices, and award-winning avocado toast, but don’t let this trendy/healthy coffee shop fool you — they have super yummy hot chocolate, too. Try the traditional hot chocolate with steamed, silky milk, cocoa mix, micro-foam + a cocoa dusting, or the “Milo” with malted chocolate + steamed whole milk.
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Cafe Vista + Dream Vista | 527 Monroe Street, Hoboken + 177 York Street, Jersey City
Cafe Vista’s hot chocolate is as pretty as they come. There are three different selections of the drink: regular, macadamia, and tahini. Its sister location in Jersey City has the same Insta-worthy vibes and be sure to check its selections of hot chocolate.
Carpe Diem | 1405 Grand Street
Seeking an adult version of your fave childhood drink? Carpe Diem has you covered with the spiked hot chocolate made with Kahlúa (and it’s delish).
Chango Kitchen | 301 Willow Avenue
Stop in Chango Kitchen for Cuban-style brunch and top it off with a good coffee or sweet Venezuelan hot chocolate.
Hidden Grounds | 700 Garden Street + 79 Hudson Street, Hoboken + 276 1st Street + 148 First Street, Jersey City
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Hidden Grounds has truly mastered the art of esthetically pleasing hot cocoa. Each of the cafes has its own inviting seating area plus free Wifi. Altogether, it sounds like the recipe for a perfectly cozy afternoon!
La Bouche | 207 Washington Street
La Bouche is known for its French-Mediterranean fare, but it is also known for something else — hot chocolate. Topped with powdered cocoa, this hot beverage is a great treat on a chilly Mile Square day.
La Isla | 104 Washington Street
Wash down that churrasco, rice, and beans with some flan and warm hot chocolate for dessert at La Isla where everything is delish.
Merry Hot Cocoa | Church Square Park + Various Hudson County Locations
Hoboken’s hot chocolate pop-up instantly won the hearts of residents with its delicious drinks. Cariana Fasciano — Hoboken resident and owner of Merry Hot Cocoa — sells six styles of hot chocolate, including S’mores Hot Cocoa, The Candy Cane Lane, and more.
MOJO Coffee Company | 801 Bloomfield Street + 230 Willow Avenue
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MOJO Coffee Company creates a classic hot chocolate drink with marshmallows as a topping.
Thomas’s Ice Cream Cafe | 214 Jefferson Street
Handmade ice cream and handmade hot chocolate — could you want anything more? While you’re there, enjoy a warm pie.
Yuki’s Bakery + Coffee | 720 Monroe Street
Besides its coffee selection, Yuki’s has a hot chocolate drink on its menu. It can be paired with a pastry like carrot cake or banana bread.
Jersey City
Busy Bee Organics | 451 Palisade Avenue
This S’mores hot chocolate option contains is house-made ginger cookie rim with either grass-fed milk or vegan coconut milk with a toasted marshmallow on top.
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Milk Sugar Love | 19 McWilliams Place
For a fun dash of extra sweetness, Milk Sugar Love makes the hot cocoa with a giant homemade Vanilla Bean Marshmallow.
Jersey City’s Arts + Powerhouse Building: New Businesses Coming Soon
In the heart of Jersey City's Powerhouse Arts District lies the Arts + Powerhouse Building — a historic, century-old warehouse that recently finished a historic revitalization as of early February 2024. The building has over 100,000 square feet of office/retail space, and will soon be home to a few new Jersey City businesses — from restaurants to fitness spots. While there is still room for even more new businesses in the Arts + Powerhouse Building, we've rounded up which ones have been confirmed so far. Read on for more about the new businesses coming to Jersey City's Arts + Powerhouse Building, located at 124-134 Bay Street.
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^ A layout of some of the new businesses in the building
Daily Provisions
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A NYC-based food and drink eatery be coming to the ground floor of 124 Bay Street. Daily Provisions, which is run by Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group (the group that first launched Shake Shack), will be taking over about 3,134 square feet of space in the building, per Jersey Digs. The spot has a primary focus on to-go orders and serves up breakfast, lunch, and dinner items — including sandwiches, bakery items like crullers + cookies, soups, and salads, among other dishes. The drink menu includes coffee, tea, and lemonade, among other choices. The Jersey City location will not have a liquor license. Daily Provisions currently has eight locations in New York City — this will be the eatery's first New Jersey locale. The team opening the Jersey City outpost shared with The Hoboken Girl in February 2025 that the eatery is currently hiring and aiming for a mid-March opening, pending construction timelines.
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Rumble Boxing
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Along with the new restaurants on the ground floor also comes a new workout spot that is no stranger to the fitness scene — Rumble Boxing. Here, participants can expect a 45-minute boxing class split into ten rounds. Each round lasts about three minutes and gym-goers switch between floor exercises and punching series on the heavy bags. Rumble's Hoboken location opened up in February 2023 at 1201 Shipyard Lane, and another location recently opened in Edgewater. Rumble Boxing has multiple New Jersey and NYC locations, as well as many more across the United States. The boxing studio is set to open sometime in March 2025.
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Tacombi Jersey City
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We first shared the news back in 2021 that NYC-based taco spot 'Tacombi' would be coming to Jersey City's Arts + Powerhouse building. The Mexican restaurant will also be on the ground floor, and will take up about 2,700 square feet of space. Tacombi’s story began by selling Mexican street food in a vintage VW camper bus on the beach in Yucatan, Mexico back in 2005 and has since grown to be the popular Mexican restaurant it is today. The restaurant is known for its beautiful interior design — think bright colors, murals, and major beach vibes — and serves up tacos, quesadillas, burritos, and savory appetizers. Some menu highlights include corn esquites (sweet corn sliced from the cob with cotija cheese, smoky homemade Morita mayo, spicy chili), baja crispy fish tacos, and a la bisteca burrito (sirloin steak with rice, beans, cabbage, spicy escabeche, + salsa) Tacombi currently has locations in New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, and Illinois — this will be its first New Jersey storefront.
Other businesses set to open at Jersey City's Arts + Powerhouse Building include One Medical, a primary care office, and Spear Physical Therapy, per an Instagram post from the building. This post will be updated as more tenants are announced.
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