Dark Sugars Cocoa House
This dark sugar would lighten your mood!
A fun summer idea is to spend the day at Greenwich. There are so many things to see and so many cafes and restaurants to enjoy.
We also discovered a handcrafted chocolate house called Dark Sugars, bigger than the sister store in Brick Lane.
Starting out as a small stall in Spitalfields Market, Dark Sugars has made its way to Greenwich with a 4-story flagship store.
After successful stalls in Spitalfields and Borough Markets, Nyanga, the founder of Dark Sugars, returned to Ghana, the world’s chocolate supplier, to research cocoa on her family’s farm.
She brought back her newfound experience and knowledge back to England by opening the first, smaller store in Brick Lane.
That store sold a range of chocolate truffles in different flavours, and generous free samples allowed customers to taste the richness of Ghanaian cocoa.
They also serve their famous hot chocolates topped with chopped chocolate there.
We visited the Brick Lane store during the colder weather and the hot chocolate really hit the spot of warming us up.
It was rich and velvety, easily one of the best hot chocolate we’ve had!
However, we discovered that the flagship store in Greenwich also serves gelatos with different flavors, all incorporated into the base chocolate flavor.
It was quite inexpensive, pricing under £4 for a single scoop of gelato.
Before choosing a flavor, you are allowed to have one taste tester, which we thought was pointless because if we didn’t like the first flavor, how would we know which other flavor would suit our taste? Fortunately for us, our tester choice suited our taste, so we decided to stick to this flavor just to play it safe for our official choice.
We had chosen the Pistachio and Chocolate gelato and the Chocolate Muffin one; both were rich in chocolate flavors, but I couldn’t really taste the pistachio, and the chocolate overpowered it too much.
The color and texture of the gelato, however, were really pretty and smooth. As for the chocolate muffin gelato, there were little chocolate muffin crumbs incorporated into the chocolate gelato, which gave it a nice texture and made the gelato enjoyable—a flip of the cake and ice cream combo!
Having the gelatos as we stroll around Greenwich was really nice as it was a warm day too so it was a good way to cool down.
We visited the Greenwich Market, and it was better than most hyped-up markets in London. They had stalls ranging from food to small businesses to vintage items.
There was another vintage market near the area if you like collecting vintage things. The National Maritime Museum is also free to visit, and the Old Royal Naval College is just opposite it.
Most of the exhibitions at the Royal Naval College come with a fee, but there is a chapel that is free to visit.
The Chapel of St. Peter and St. Paul is hidden in one of the college buildings, but it is easily located, as there is a signboard indicating its location.
The inside has a beautiful Greek Revival style of architecture, and it is just beautiful and worthy of a visit.
These are just suggestions if you aren’t sure what to do in Greenwich because this little town is filled with so much life and it shouldn’t be missed!
Location:
Greenwich — : 9 Nelson Rd., London SE10 9JB
Brick Lane — : 141 Brick Ln, Bethnal Green, London E1 6SB
Written by Althea Scully