Opened in 2008, Locolat Cafe is family-owned and operated and has provided the very best in Belgian chocolates and cakes for clientele in the Washington Metropolitan area. Pastry Chef Niel Piferoen is a Belgian native who brings award winning desserts and internationally renowned Belgian chocolate to the DC area alongside his wife and father. Piferoen attended the Bakery and Pastry School Ter Groene Poorte in Brugge, Belgium. His culinary repertoire includes Michel Richard Citronelle, working under Ewald Notter, World Master of Sugar and Chocolate, Red Sage in Washington DC and the opening Pastry Chef of Restaurant Eve. He was also Pastry Chef for the Michelin reviewed restaurant, Karmeliet.
