When you hear this café's name, you'll think of our famous chocnut, short for chocolate and nuts. I did read somewhere that it should not be read as tsokonut but as tsoko dot nut instead. Tsoko.Nut Batirol has a branch located in Eastwood City, Libis at the Excelsior Building and they serve good coffee, pastries and even meals. They serve both hot and cold drinks but I prefer the cold ones and I especially like their amaretto flavored chocolate drink.
Tsoko.nut is proudly Pinoy and their chocolate drinks and some pastries are made of tablea which is our local chocolate made of roasted cacao beans and shaped in about a half inch thick and 1 1/2 inch round tablets. Unlike the modern chocolate bars, tableas don't have any milk or cocoa butter and are most of the time unsweetened and is rough in texture therefore you can actually say that it is pure chocolate. The tableas are also used in making the chocolatey, sticky rice porridge called champorado.
The cafe is also proud that their hot chocolate drinks are prepared using a batirol which explains its name and logo. A batirol is like a kitchen utensil to froth liquid which the Spaniards introduced to us during colonization. The way of frothing the drink is called bati. They use a batirol which kinda looks like the stick that you use for scooping honey and you mix the tablea with the hot water until it froths and you get a tsoko batirol, a traditional hot chocolate..
My friends tried the choco loco and the kasuy batirol drink (hot chocolate with cashew) and both said they were delicious. We also tried their pastries like the tablea cake and the chocolate cake. I actually didn't recognize the difference between the two but they were both good though I think the cake should be moister.
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| chocolate cake |
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| tablea cake |
Prices of their drinks are around 100 as well as their cakes. They do have a drink and cake combo and they also serve a few rice meals and other Filipino dishes like the tapsilog and palabok.
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