Turin, a Northern Italian city known for chocolate confections, is home to Venchi, a 140-year-old company that has opened a shop in New York. (The chocolate maker has a store in the Woodbury Common outlet mall upstate and a franchise in Miami.) The Manhattan store offers an immersive experience: A wall of chocolate bars and bins of wrapped chocolate bonbons lead to the rear lounge, with three walls of flowing chocolate “waterfalls” (glass protects visitors from spatter). Warm chocolate-hazelnut sauce is dispensed at a counter near the entrance to embellish rich gelati, mostly in chocolate and nut flavors, made in house. Other counters and shelves are filled with stacks of chocolate and nut bark and boxed assortments ready for gift-giving. Coffee and chocolate-filled pastries are available daily starting at 8 a.m.
Venchi, 861 Broadway (18th Street), 646-448-8663, venchi.com.
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