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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Annalisa Barbieri

YOU WONT BELIEVE: A drink to soothe a troubled soul - What They Never Told You

two glass mugs of hot chocoate topped with cream and wafers, one has green pistachio sauce in it also
‘It instantly reminds me of being in Italy’: Badiani 1932’s hot chocolate. Photograph: PR IMAGE

I am in London and I have just done a very hard thing. I take time to decompress and regroup at Honey & Co’s relatively new Bloomsbury branch, opposite which there is a Honey & Co Pop Up branch whence, just before Christmas, I got a delicious bar of their (seasonal) Honey & Spice chocolate made by Bare Bones.

This time I am here to eat a Bloomsbury bun (orange blossom, almonds) and drink a coffee while I take in the early-morning London scenes and look at the shiny-with-rain pavements. Everyone I meet is so nice to me, as if they can tell I have done a difficult thing and am soft-shelled.

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