Ah Cacao Real Chocolate
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Ah Cacao Real Chocolate, SA de CV is a niche Mexican chocolate
brand based in Playa del Carmen
, Quintana Roo
near Cancun
. The company was founded in 2003 by Mónica Tello, an entrepreneur from Mexico City
. Even though cacao was first domesticated in Mexico, today Ah Cacao Real Chocolate is one of only a few companies making premium chocolate products from Mexican cacao. Ah Cacao products are sold in Mexico, the USA, and Canada.
The company operates three stores in Mexico under the name Ah Cacao Chocolate Café. These stores sell packaged chocolate products, prepared coffee and chocolate drinks and desserts, such as brownies.
An integral part of the company's identity is its support of wildlife conservation efforts, especially in the Riviera Maya
.
In 2008 Ah Cacao Chocolate Café was featured on Rachel Ray's Tasty Travels, a Food Network TV show.
Chocolate
Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC...
brand based in Playa del Carmen
Playa del Carmen
Playa del Carmen is a balneario resort city just south of Cancún on the coast of the Caribbean Sea, in the northeast of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The city is the seat of the Solidaridad municipality. In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 149,923 people and it is rapidly growing...
, Quintana Roo
Quintana Roo
Quintana Roo officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 10 municipalities and its capital city is Chetumal....
near Cancun
Cancún
Cancún is a city of international tourism development certified by the UNWTO . Located on the northeast coast of Quintana Roo in southern Mexico, more than 1,700 km from Mexico City, the Project began operations in 1974 as Integrally Planned Center, a pioneer of FONATUR Cancún is a city of...
. The company was founded in 2003 by Mónica Tello, an entrepreneur from Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
. Even though cacao was first domesticated in Mexico, today Ah Cacao Real Chocolate is one of only a few companies making premium chocolate products from Mexican cacao. Ah Cacao products are sold in Mexico, the USA, and Canada.
The company operates three stores in Mexico under the name Ah Cacao Chocolate Café. These stores sell packaged chocolate products, prepared coffee and chocolate drinks and desserts, such as brownies.
An integral part of the company's identity is its support of wildlife conservation efforts, especially in the Riviera Maya
Riviera Maya
Riviera Maya, also known as the Mayan Riviera, is a tourism district following the coastal Highway 307 which parallels the Caribbean coastline of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, located on the eastern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula...
.
In 2008 Ah Cacao Chocolate Café was featured on Rachel Ray's Tasty Travels, a Food Network TV show.