As fate has it, I can answer my own question. Work dragged me to New York and found a good list
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010...-hot-chocolate and when I mapped them out , it turns out
http://goo.gl/maps/zqHi some of them are really close to each other. All three of these are good but what I wanted is the italian hot chocolate in Eataly. Now, with Caffe Nero also calling theirs Hot Chocolate Milano, there's a pattern emerging: what I want is Italian Hot Cholate