Artisanal Cheese, Rum & Chocolate Adventure
When Barrie Lynn invites you to one of her events, go. The former ad exec, who calls herself The Cheese Impresario, hosted a luxurious tasting at a Hancock Park residence on March 19 featuring...
Gregory Gourreau Provides Payard Chocolate Lesson in Las Vegas
The Vegas outpost of Payard Patisserie is well known for its Wonka-like clock that dispenses truffles every fifteen minutes. After a hearty breakfast at Payard Bistro, we were invited behind the gears, into the...
Max Brenner – New York, NY
Max Brenner is a great place in New York City to meet up with your friends and/or your family for a cozy cup of cocoa and dessert. I visited the restaurant near the holidays...
Sahagun [CLOSED]
Elizabeth Montes opened her tiny Portland chocolate shop on June 30, 2005, naming it for Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, a Spanish Jesuit missionary who communed with chocolate loving Aztecs in the 16th Century. In...
XOX Truffles: French-Accented Chocolates in San Francisco
XOX Truffles‘ motto: “Created with a French attitude…handmade in the USA…taste out of this world.” Sounds about right. Jean-Marc Gorce, formerly with Fringale, opened this truffle shop with his wife Casimira on October 11,...
Scharffen Berger Chocolate Factory Tour [CLOSED]
Scharffen Berger‘s chocolate factory building dates to 1906, the year of the mammoth Bay Area quake. Smartly, the factory was built soundly, surrounded on all sides by a yard-thick brick wall, so it sustained...
