York café draws crowds with free hot chocolate giveaway

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 21 Oct, 16:29 · Archive

Knoops in York is offering free small hot chocolates on Wednesday, drawing long queues.

Knoops, a café on Parliament Street in York, is offering free small hot chocolates on Wednesday. The queue has extended from outside the café in the former Boots Opticians building to Shambles Market.

The offer applies to small hot chocolates normally priced between £4.40 and £4.70, available through the Knoops app. The café, which opened in York in 2024, provides a fully customisable chocolate menu and also sells pastries and takeaway chocolate flakes.

How it is being reported

• People queue down street outside York café – here’s whyAn offer of free hot chocolate from Knoops has people queuing down the street in YorkYork Press · 21 Oct, 15:08
• People queue down street outside York café – here’s whyAn offer of free hot chocolate from Knoops has people queuing down the street in YorkGazette & Herald (Malton) · 21 Oct, 15:08

In this story: Knoops · York · Parliament Street · Jens Knoop · Rye

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