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Barrio Restaurant
CAPITOL HILLBELLEVUE

Archive for January, 2009

Seattle PI Review

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

We were super excited to get a great review from Leslie Kelly in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer! Click here to read it.

What In The World Is Xocalatl Chocolate?!??!

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

For all you chocolate lovers out there…we have something new for you to try as our homemade churros come with a xocalatl chocolate dipping sauce! In ancient Aztec culture, xocalatl was the drink of the gods. The term translated means “warm or bitter liquid”. We use a 70% chocolate made from cacao grown in Mexico, and add a blend of cinnamon, ancho chiles, Mexican vanilla and a little cream and sugar. C’mon in and get your xocalatl on!

A quick side note on percentages as it relates to chocolate…this is interesting stuff that I just learned about also. The 70% we use refers to the ratio of cacao to sugar. The more cacao, the deeper, darker and more pronounced the chocolate flavor will be. As a rule, milk chocolate is at about 35-45 percent cacao to sugar, semisweet chocolate is at about 50-60 percent and bittersweet is at about 60-70 percent.