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Ah Cacao Chocolate Café

Supermanzana 330, Cancún (Riviera Maya)

What Ah Cacao Chocolate Café is known for

Operating since 2005, Ah Cacao works with family cacao farms and has served more than ten million treats to date. Its Playa del Carmen cafe has been featured by Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure and Lonely Planet.

Ah Cacao has operated since 2005, according to its own copyright notice, and describes its cacao as coming from family farms it credits with caring for the land the beans are grown on. Over that span the company states it has served more than ten million treats, a scale figure it puts directly on its own site rather than leaving to estimate. Its press presence is unusually well-documented for a regional chocolate cafe: logos and mentions from Travel + Leisure, Delta, SFGate, Aeromexico, Food & Wine, Singapore Airlines, Mexico Desconocido, TripAdvisor, Lonely Planet, Rachael Ray and Playacar Magazine all appear on the site, spanning travel media, airline in-flight coverage and food press. The company also maintains a store locator, indicating a footprint of multiple locations beyond its original counter, though it doesn't state an exact count. Two decades of operation, a ten-million-treats production figure, and a press list running from airline magazines to Lonely Planet together sketch a chocolate cafe that has scaled well past a single tourist-strip storefront while keeping its origin story centered on family-farmed cacao.

Best for — Family-farm cacao and Playa del Carmen chocolate café

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