Oro Chocolate & Coffee

Oro sits on Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park, two blocks south of the Damen Blue Line, in a 5,000 square foot space where bean-to-bar chocolate gets tempered behind glass and Nicaraguan single-origin coffee gets roasted in the same room. Every purchase pays a premium back to the regenerative farms in Nicaragua. The signature mochas use the actual chocolate they make on site, which makes them a different drink than what that word usually means. Seasonal house lattes rotate. Ceremonial matcha sits alongside a real drinking chocolate that arrives thick and bittersweet. The bakery runs in back. Saturdays the room fills with people who came to watch the chocolate get tempered and stayed for the food. Order the signature mocha if you have ever been disappointed by a mocha and want to understand why. Order the drinking chocolate if it is cold out and you want something that drinks like dessert and tastes like work.