Mouse’s Chocolates & Coffee | Ouray Colorado
On your way to a round of golf in Telluride or Montrose, you go through Ouray—and it’s worth fudging on your tee time to stop at Mouse’s Chocolates & Coffee, the winningest shop on Main Street.
John roasts coffee in an antique machine, a big bad-boy piece of equipment that leaves the younger generation to wonder about a process with no computer programming involved. His business partner Heidi, the chocolatier, makes everything by hand, using only Belgian chocolate (the gourmet standard, measured by the quality of ingredients and old-fashioned manufacturing steps).
Mouse’s offers a huge selection of chocolates, cookies, lattes and ice cream beverages (try the espresso shake). But the be-all and end-all is the Scrap Cookie. After making their confections, the leftover scraps are mixed with buttery sugar dough, which results in the most addictive cookie ever. Not too crispy, not too gooey, and no two bites are alike—there’s a yummy surprise with each one, bits of delicious goodness ranging from chocolate to toffee to nuts to dried fruit. Heck, just rub it all over your body and dip yourself in milk…
520 Main St., Ouray; 970-325-7285; mouseschocolates.com.
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