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brightened Cupan Tae, full of patrons savoring tea- ture hot chocolate, made with only cocoa, sugar and
time sandwiches and sweets, like the tasty zucchini water. Chocolate bars and truffles are also for sale.
and lime curd cake Gosia presented to us to sample. Hoods up, we brave the pelting rain for our last
Tea choices number in the dozens and are served with stop, the unlikely Palas Cinema, the city’s new, ultra-
a timer (!) to guarantee the perfect brew. Similar care modern art house cinema and Merrow, its cafe and
is bestowed on gourmet chocolate made at factory bar, named after mermaids of Irish folklore. The dining
in the nearby rocky Burren Mountains and sold at the room is filling with men and women who lunch as we
airy Hazel Mountain Chocolate Shop in Galway city take our seats, hoping to find room for our last tast-
center. Our welcome taste was their heavenly signa- ing, rainy-day perfect chowder and brown bread. The

At Cupan Tae, tea cakes and sand-
wiches draw a full house on a rainy
day. Nearby, hot chocolate can be
savored at Hazel Mountain Chocolate
Shop (bottom right).

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