Canal Park right now: 14°Fcocoa weather

Real chocolate. Melted slow by the lake.

No powder, no packets. We shave Minnesota-made dark chocolate into hot milk in copper kettles and stir until it coats the spoon. Top it with a marshmallow we cut by hand.

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The cups

Four cups, from easy to serious.

Every cup is 10 oz. Oat milk for any drink at no charge. Kids' size (6 oz, not too hot) for $3.50.

Hot cocoa topped with whipped cream in a yellow mug

The Classic

Milk chocolate, whole milk, a cloud of vanilla whip.

$5.50

Cocoa with a chocolate syrup pattern on top

North Shore Mocha

Half cocoa, half espresso from a Duluth roaster. Chocolate drizzle.

$6.25

Cocoa with whipped cream and chocolate shavings on a saucer

Superior Sea Salt

70% dark chocolate, a pinch of flaky salt, and burnt sugar cream.

$6.75

Small cup of thick drinking chocolate on a tray with a plaid blanket

The Sipper

Thick European drinking chocolate in a 4 oz cup. Spoon optional.

$5.75

Torched marshmallow
Vanilla, maple, or peppermint

Brown butter cookie
Baked every hour after 2pm

$3.25

Spiked (after 4pm)
Peppermint schnapps or bourbon

+$4

Take-home kit

The cabin kit. Four cups' worth, in a tin.

Everything we use at the counter, packed for a cabin up the shore or a snow day at home. Just add milk.

8 oz shaved dark chocolate, 64% cacao
12 hand-cut vanilla bean marshmallows
A copper-colored tin you'll keep for years
Our stovetop method on a card

$28Reserve a kit

Add cookies?Six brown butter cookies, wrapped and boxed, +$12.

Our story

It started with one kettle at a hockey rink.

Ruth Lindqvist's grandmother made cocoa in a copper kettle every Sunday in winter. In 2014 Ruth borrowed that kettle and sold cups out of a warming house at the outdoor rink in Lester Park. She ran out in forty minutes.

Now there are six kettles, a shop in Canal Park, and a window that faces the lift bridge. The first kettle still sits on the shelf behind the register. It is not for sale. People ask.

A copper pot on a stove with a wooden spoon

2014

First cups sold at the Lester Park rink. Cash box was a cookie tin.

2017

Farmers market stall. Marshmallows go from bagged to hand-cut.

2020

Cabin kits launch. 3,000 tins mailed that first winter.

2023

The Canal Park shop opens, two blocks from the lift bridge.

Visit

Two blocks from the lift bridge.

Grab a window seat and watch the ships come in. We post ship arrival times on the chalkboard by the door.

Find us

318 Canal Park Drive
Duluth, MN 55802

Paid lot across the street. First 30 minutes free with a cup.

Winter hours

Mon–Thu: 11am – 8pm
Fri: 11am – 10pm
Sat: 9am – 10pm
Sun: 9am – 7pm

Summer: weekends only, iced chocolate.

Get in touch

(218) 555-0119
hello@copperkettlecocoa.example

Rink parties and office orders: 24 hours' notice for 20+ cups.

Warm hands in ten minutes.

Order ahead, park, and your cup is waiting by the door in a sleeve with your name on it.

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