The North Pole · Table Service

The Cocoa House

Copper urns, a stone fire, and nowhere better to be at midnight.

The urns have been hot since before anyone can remember. Take a table near the fire, hang your coat on the hook, and let somebody bring it over.

Dark drinking chocolate, whipped cream, chocolate shavings, one candy cane.

White chocolate swirled green and violet, with sugar stars on top.

Milk chocolate with toasted marshmallow, served in a tin mug.

Peppermint cocoa under a drift of cream and crushed candy cane.

Spiced cocoa with ginger and a gingerbread star balanced on the rim.

Caramel cocoa with a pinch of sea salt and a caramel curl.

Dark cocoa with orange peel and a single clove, for the grown-ups.

A half-size mug for small hands. Comes with two marshmallows, always.

Warm from the oven, pulled apart at the table, icing still soft.

A box of six iced gingerbread houses to build and then eat.

Buttery shortbread stars under a heavy dusting of icing sugar.

A skewer, six marshmallows, and a seat by the fire.