Chocolate Lab

By Jonathan Kauffman/Jan. 2, 2013 8:48 am EST

You can, of course, eat chocolate at Michael and Jacky Recchiuti's new cafe–in particular, we recommend the chocolate-mandarin mousse cake–but the open-faced tartines on Firebrand bread are equally wonderful. Chocolate Lab now competes with Serpentine for the title of "Best Dogpatch Lunch," a category in which the competition is growing ever more fierce. (See our previous coverage.)