Have you tried our banana bread bunny chow?” asks Michael de Klerk, who with business partner Anthony Gird founded Honest Chocolate. The brand’s first café is housed in a heritage building on Wale Street, Cape Town. Inside the “bunny chow”, simply a tall muffin, is a dollop of the raw, artisanal chocolate for which they are famous. At the café, patrons indulge in chocolate in a variety of forms — in tarts and pastries, drinks and in their signature raw cacao bars wrapped in beautifully illustrated covers. What makes the café remarkable is that it was crowdfunded, in part.

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