Like many seemingly simple foods and drinks, hot chocolate has seen an upgrade. Pastry chefs and learned chocolatiers have carefully selected cacao beans from small farms around the equator, making these cups of cocoa mind-blowing, and addictive, masterpieces. Chicago: Mindy's Hot Chocolate You'd be hard-pressed to find a Chicagoan who didn't think "hot chocolate" was synonymous with Mindy Segal.