Cocoa butter’s scarcity reflected in competition
A small but extravagant competition this year
Published 25 May, 2025
Category: Outside the Bay Area
The Out of Towners, Spring 2025 edition
This blog focuses on SFBA chocolate, but we review chocolate from other places too. We compile single worth-a-mention-chocolate reviews into articles for our recurring “Out of Towners” series
Published 3 April, 2025
Chewing the cacao fat at a Salon
Samples, samples everywhere, much more than I could eat
Published 2 February, 2025
Break me off a piece of that
“Playful flavor adventures” await in the world of Japanese candies and snacks — or up your experience with some recommended SFBA replacements
Published 26 December, 2024
Hotsy-totsy hot chocolate
Looks like somebody took the saying — a good cup of sipping chocolate is like drinking a bar of chocolate — literally
Published 12 December, 2024
The Out of Towners, Fall 2024 edition
This blog focuses on SFBA chocolate, but we review chocolate from other places too. We compile single worth-a-mention-chocolate reviews into articles for our recurring “Out of Towners” series
Published 20 November, 2024
Winning 2024 bars & “barks”
Good to excellent single origin and inclusion bars — plus one bar masquerading as a bark
Published 19 July, 2024
Chocolate surprises
Life is unpredictable — so were the entries in this year’s vegan chocolate competition
Published 19 July, 2024
White chocolate experts
I’m not trying to butter anyone up but some of this year’s white chocolate competitors were lapping the field
Published 6 June, 2024
Toffee talk
Is bigger better? This year’s toffee competition had me pulling out a ruler
Published 5 June, 2024
Love + Chocolate – Rockridge
The newest chocolate option on College Avenue in Oakland sells an iconic Belgian chocolate brand
Published 8 February, 2024
