Winter’s short days and chilly nights mean it’s time to turn up the heat! Get warm on the inside with drinks like hot chocolate, apple cider, coffee, tea, mulled wine, and hot toddies. Here are a few places in Atlanta to get warm drinks:
Hot chocolate
- No Mas! Cantina: you have to try the chocolate azteca
- LottaFrutta: their Mexican hot chocolate is amazing
- Hampton + Hudson: made with brandy and bourbon cream, topped with burnt marshmallows
- Xocolatl Small Batch Chocolate: a less sweet version of hot chocolate made with cacao, organic cane sugar, and coconut milk
Apple cider
- Skyline Park: the hot spiked cider tastes great on the rooftop
- Urban Tree Cidery: taste their original, classic, or barrel-aged ciders
- Après Diem: try the spiked apple cider float
- Grant Park Coffeehouse: very good Caramel apple cider
- Bocado: hot apple cider topped with vanilla ice cream
- Ladybird Grove & Mess Hall: made with North Georgia apple cider, brandy, and ancho reyes chile liqueur
Coffee
- Amélie’s French Bakery & Café: tasty Salted Caramel Brownie Café Mocha
- ChocoLaté: organic beans sourced from all over the world; the one from Papua New Guinea is excellent
- Café Intermezzo: their menu comes with a full history of coffee, starting in the year 850
- The Porter: their Dark Matter Get the F**k Out of Bed French Press lives up to its name
- The Southern Gentleman: their drink The Stallion bumps regular coffee to the next level
- Urban Grind Coffee: you need to try the White Raspberry Mocha
Tea
- Jayida Ché Tea Spot: lots of great options, especially the pumpkin chai
- Just Add Honey: incredible tea selection, plus the Afternoon parTEA is fun to reserve
- Dr. Bombay’s Tea House: make reservations for their high tea and support a good cause
- Chai Pani: excellent chai tea
Mulled wine (offered seasonally, so check first)
Hot toddy (offered seasonally, so check first)