Real chocolate. Real coffee.

Grown by families we know in Nicaragua.

Made into chocolate at our own factory there. Finished and roasted here in Wicker Park.

Shop gifts Or choose a bar

Gift sets from $20 · Drinking chocolate $28 · The five-bar flight $50

From a $20 flight to a monthly club.

Under $30

The Oro Flight
$20
Two bars, Tuma and Opayo, to taste side by side.
Drinking chocolate
$28
Our chocolate, ground into granules. Whisk it into hot milk.

$50 to $62

Origin Explorer
$50
Five 78% bars from our Nicaraguan cacao.
Drinks Bundle
$58
Our coffee and our drinking chocolate.
Coffee Bundle
$62
Two bags of our coffee and two Coffee 78% bars.

$88 and monthly

Cacao Connoisseur
$88
Six ways to taste one country's cacao: three bars, nibs, husk tea and ceremonial drinking chocolate.
Ritual Club
from $48 a month
Coffee and drinking chocolate at their door every month.
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And one for you: single bars, $11.

01A ripe pod on the trunk. Nicaragua.
02Raking the drying platform. Tipitapa, Nicaragua.
03Sorting dried beans by hand. Nicaragua.
04Nibs after winnowing. Our factory, Nicaragua.
05Pouring into the mould.

Oro drinking chocolate seen from above, a heart poured in the foam, on a black saucer with a gold spoon

A cup of Oro drinking chocolate on a saucer scattered with chocolate pieces and a gold spoon

Drinking chocolate, made from our chocolate.

It isn't a powder. We grind our own solid chocolate into granules, so there's no block to chop. Whisk a few spoonfuls into hot milk or water.

Four kinds. Single Origin, Aphrodisiac and Golden Milk Chai, $28. Ceremonial, $30: 100% cacao, nothing added.

Shop drinking chocolate

From Nicaragua. Finished in Wicker Park.

More than a thousand farming families grow the cacao. It's fermented and dried in Tipitapa, made into chocolate at our factory in San Juan del Sur, and finished at the front window of our shop in Wicker Park.

HarvestA pod opened at harvest. Nicaragua.
FermentFerment. Ingemann, Tipitapa, Nicaragua.
SortSorting dried beans by hand. Nicaragua.

The cacao has earned 345+ international awards.

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A latte with a leaf poured in the foam, on a wooden tray scattered with roasted coffee beans

The coffee comes from people we know by name.

El Palacio has been the Chaves family's farm in Jinotega since 1894. Some of what we pour has come from our own farm at Los Nogales, and more of it will. We roast in the back of the shop.