Let them eat 80% cocoa

Dinner was at Osteria Napoletana in Ladbroke Grove, where the pasta (mine: paccheri with tiny bullets of perfect fish) was cooked to al dente perfection and a wonderful dessert of homemade peanutella, their own hybrid of chocolate Nutella and peanuts. Try it. It’s £3 a scoop, but you should probably have dinner first.

But my standout this week is Lumi’s new, I like to think made for me, 80% Organic Ugandan Swiss Rocher bar (the milk version is still available and still OMG delicious), £7.75. If you haven’t yet had Lumi’s 80% Ugandan, this is already an astounding bar, but after my laments of a few weeks ago that high-cocoa content bars seldom feature inclusions they’ve made this bar with roasted silvers of almonds. Straight into my top 10. You’ll never believe an 80% can be this good.

Too early for Advent calendars? I think not. Montezuma’s Organic Milk, £18 is boring (all the same chocs), but utterly delicious and devoured by the testers before we had even reached the end of September.