Complete Chocolate Lover’s Guide for the San Francisco Bay Area

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Here’s the complete list of CBTB posts since the beginning:

  • HAPA Chocolat
  • Big Top Sweet Shop
  • Norma’s Toffee
  • Holiday chocolate events
  • Beverly’s English Toffee
  • sugar.butter.love
  • The Out of Towners, Fall 2024 edition
  • Miette Patisserie & Confiserie – San Ramon
  • Time for some serious holiday shopping
  • Eri’s Choco
  • Cacao Regina
  • Bread & cacao
  • Craft chocolate party
  • Javier Confectionery + Preston’s Candies & Ice Cream
  • Socola Chocolatier – SFO
  • Winning 2024 bars & “barks”
  • Chocolate surprises
  • Raxakoul Coffee & Cheese
  • RIP: Martha Shibata, original CBTB chocolateer
  • White chocolate experts
  • Toffee talk
  • A month of chocolate
  • It takes a neighborhood
  • Patisserie Angelica
  • Experience craft chocolate at the Craft Chocolate Experience
  • CAYA Chocolate
  • Caffeinated chocolates
  • Green Panda Eats
  • The New SFBA Chocolate Scene
  • Show some love for local chocolatiers
  • Time again for the SF International Chocolate Salon
  • Minée Chocolate
  • SOMA stroll
  • Ghirardelli Chocolate Outlet & Ice Cream Shop– Lathrop
  • Pieces of Heaven
  • Binging with Charles
  • Berkeley Bowl West
  • That’s different
  • Love + Chocolate – Rockridge
  • TIL…
  • Venchi San Jose
  • Good and plenty
  • Bonbon anniversaire!
  • COBA
  • Blue bird of happiness
  • The Out of Towners, Fall 2023 edition
  • Chocolite Vegan Sweets
  • Block o’ choc
  • VB Fine Chocolates
  • Stock up for the holidays
  • Xocolate & Confections
  • Vegan converts
  • Shekoh Confections Café
  • Death [march] by chocolate
  • Dandelion Chocolate – Fillmore Street
  • Andronico’s Community Market – Shattuck
  • It ain’t easy being green
  • A few good bars
  • Tea time @ Jade
  • Tiny House Chocolate
  • White chocolate gems
  • Refined sugar
  • PureGoodies
  • Nana’s Kettle, Toffee and Treats
  • Treat yourself
  • Egg-citing times
  • aL chocoLat Boutique
  • 1.2.3 Chocolat
  • New homes for chocolate
  • Chocolate heaven
  • The Out of Towners, Spring 2023 edition
  • That Batch
  • Melk® candy bars
  • Pop in on a J Street Chocolate popup
  • Company’s coming!
  • Mark your calendar for chocolate
  • Sweet Shop
  • Shekoh Confections
  • Wine Truffle Boutique
  • Blue Canary Sweets
  • Chocolates For Change
  • Navitas Organics
  • Berkeley Bowl Marketplace
  • Decorate your space with chocolate
  • Craftsman and Wolves
  • The Chaga Company
  • Good news galore @ the Holiday Chocolate Salon
  • Wait for it
  • Ooey gooey rich & chewy
  • Missed the Fall Salon? No you didn’t
  • Chocolate echoes
  • Make plans to stock up on holiday chocolates
  • BACI Kitchen
  • JST CHCLT THX!
  • Andronico’s Community Market – Solano
  • Annabelle Candy Company
  • Bite-size bars
  • Deux Cranes Chocolates and Confections
  • The last hurrah
  • Little Burde Chocolate
  • Handmade in the house
  • Locally French
  • Marich Pancrafted Chocolates
  • Best bars of 2022
  • Hardest chocolate of all?
  • Sweet55 in Palo Alto
  • No drama competition
  • Le Bonbon
  • bon sucrée
  • Through thick & thin
  • Last chance chocolate
  • Chocolate in the time of COVID
  • Raphio Chocolate
  • Maya Chocolates
  • MoJo Bakes! SF
  • Heritage Chocolates – closed
  • Ór Dubh Chocolates
  • Wild, weird, wonderful
  • Oaktown Spice Shop – Castro Valley
  • Oaktown Spice Shop on Grand
  • Oaktown Spice Shop on Solano
  • Birds of a feather
  • In-person chocolate salon
  • The Milky Way
  • R & J Toffee
  • Kindred Caramels
  • Celine’s Sweets
  • Danville Chocolates
  • Brigadeiro Sprinkles
  • See’s Candies – El Cerrito
  • See’s Candies – Alameda
  • See’s Candies – Windsor
  • See’s Candies – Napa
  • See’s Candies – Coddingtown Shopping Center
  • See’s Candies – Montgomery Village Shopping Center
  • See’s Candies – Rohnert Park
  • See’s Candies – Petaluma
  • See’s Candies – Novato
  • See’s Candies – Montecito Plaza
  • The Candy Store
  • Sugar
  • Miette Patisserie & Confiserie – Marin Country Mart
  • Miette Patisserie & Confiserie – Montclair Village
  • Miette Patisserie & Confiserie – Hayes Valley
  • Philip Marks Chocolates
  • Miette @ Ferry Building
  • Giddy
  • See’s Candies – Stonestown Galleria
  • Shaws Candy
  • Love + Chocolate – Walnut Creek
  • Sausalito Sweets
  • teuscher
  • Littlejohn’s Candies – moved
  • The San Francisco Chocolate Factory
  • Ghirardelli Chocolate – Monterey
  • Ghirardelli Chocolate Outlet – Milpitas
  • Ghirardelli Chocolate Outlet– Tracy
  • Ghirardelli Chocolate Outlet – San Leandro
  • Ghirardelli Chocolate Outlet– Livermore: closed
  • Ghirardelli Chocolate – Montgomery St.
  • Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
  • Sjaak’s Organic Chocolates – closed
  • The Chocolate Cow
  • See’s Candies – Pleasant Hill #2
  • See’s Candies – Pleasant Hill #1
  • See’s Candies – San Ramon
  • See’s Candies – Lafayette
  • See’s Candies – Walnut Creek
  • See’s Candies – Macy’s
  • See’s Candies – Embarcadero – closed
  • Z. Cioccolato
  • Five Star Truffles
  • Timeless Coffee – Webster St.
  • Marini’s Candies
  • Mackenzies Chocolates
  • Coracao/CACOCO
  • Xocolatl/The Chocolate Garden — closed
  • Topogato
  • J Street Chocolate
  • A grain of chocolate
  • Läderach @ Stanford Shopping Center
  • Läderach @ Livermore Outlets
  • Läderach @ Westfield Vally Fair
  • Spun Sugar – closed
  • Company Confections
  • Cottage of Sweets
  • Ashby Confections
  • Lula’s Chocolates
  • Mutari Craft Chocolate
  • Chocolate optional competition
  • Chirping chocolate
  • Cacao’s Meow Artisan Chocolate – closed
  • Sweets extravaganza
  • Craft-Chocolate
  • Judgement daze
  • Sugar & spice
  • 5-star white chocolate
  • Chocolate, but make it vegan
  • Heavy competition
  • Charlotte Truffles
  • Top-notch toffee
  • A real treat
  • Sugar spectrum
  • Sweet torture
  • Garden Society
  • Hot little numbers
  • Maison Bouche
  • Award-winning vegan options
  • Livestreaming chocolate
  • Good ‘n messy
  • The Good Chocolate
  • Kool chocolate
  • David Upchurch Chocolatier
  • Snack time!
  • The Velvet Raven
  • Support chocolate in Chinatown
  • Traveling COVID style
  • Jade Chocolates – Chinatown
  • Chocolate atmosphere
  • Bright chocolate
  • Something to chew on
  • Tomo Toffee
  • Kokak Chocolates
  • The Confectionist
  • Formosa Chocolates
  • Chocolate vs. COVID-19
  • tinyB
  • The Collection @ Woodhouse
  • Fun times @ Kollar Chocolates
  • CU @ SF Chocolate Salon*
  • Wine Country Chocolateering: Napa edition
  • Our foray to La Forêt
  • Good, green chocolate
  • Long arc of chocolate
  • Vintage recipes, wines, & sweets
  • Quail Point Chocolate
  • K+M Extravirgin Chocolate
  • The Marketplace at Copia
  • Finesse, The Store
  • Anette’s Chocolates: Oxbow Public Market
  • Anette’s Chocolates: Downtown Napa
  • Sacred Chocolate – closed
  • Bisou Chocolate
  • 9th & Larkin
  • Hudson Greens & Goods
  • La Forêt – closed
  • Vintage Sweet Shoppe
  • Lights, camera, chocolate!
  • Lust for luster dust
  • Variety is the spice of life
  • Sweet55
  • Chocolateering in Wine Country
  • So what’s new, Sonoma Chocolatiers?
  • A primer on how to read the ‘Primer’
  • Michael’s Chocolates
  • Rainy Day at the farmers market
  • The doctor is in — to chocolate
  • Local chocolate finds at wine country grocery store
  • Volo Chocolate
  • Farm Chocolate Craft Confections
  • Le Belge Chocolatier
  • Best wine country chocolate souvenir
  • Fleur Sauvage Chocolates
  • Wine Country Chocolates – Sonoma Plaza
  • Wine Country Chocolates – Glen Ellen
  • The Xocolate Bar
  • Oliver’s Market @ Stony Point
  • TCHO
  • Alice Medrich, First Lady of Chocolate
  • Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker
  • Timeless Coffee – Berkeley
  • Timeless Coffee – Piedmont Ave
  • Donnelly Chocolates
  • One65
  • Woodhouse Chocolate
  • Kollar Chocolates
  • Eye Candy Chocolatier
  • Brutal competition
  • The Oakland Chocolate Company
  • Tasty toffees
  • Do I like white chocolate?
  • Surface Bloom
  • flying noir
  • Darkly different
  • Basel B Inc.
  • Sonoma Chocolatiers
  • Experiments in chocolate
  • Rainy Day Chocolate
  • Rarer than rubies
  • Nuubia Chocolates – closed
  • Rachel Dunn Chocolates – closed
  • Plumed Horse Chocolaterie by Angelica – closed
  • Pioneers & veterans of SFBA artisan chocolate
  • Jade Chocolates – Downtown SF- moved
  • Dandelion Chocolate @ Ferry Building
  • Dandelion Chocolate Factory & Salon
  • Christopher Elbow Chocolates
  • Luxury bars
  • Everybody go nuts!
  • What I did on my vacation
  • Parisian wanderings
  • Chocolat art et âme
  • Licking windows
  • Judging the best
  • Compact chocolate capitol
  • Carefully curated chocolate
  • What colors do you taste?
  • Berlin artisan chocolate
  • A tale of two houses
  • Hamburg report
  • Breaking records
  • Chocolate community
  • Different kind of white chocolate
  • Local chocolate
  • Uganda try this
  • Life is like a $500 box of chocolate
  • What’s in a name?
  • Make it snappy
  • Bean-to-barbie chocolate
  • Good for you
  • Art ’n chocolate
  • What’s new in your chocolate?
  • A spoonful of chocolate helps the medicine go down
  • Run faster, jump higher
  • Trufflegeddon
  • Chocolate sprinkles
  • Ora Cacao, formerly Firefly Chocolate
  • Endorfin Foods
  • Fera’wyn’s Artisan Chocolates – moved
  • CocoTutti
  • Paper sweets
  • Kids’ meal
  • I ♥ Seoul chocolate
  • Have a seat @ Dandelion Chocolate
  • A cacao tree grows in Japan
  • Chocolate Deluge
  • Free online class: Bean-to-Bar at home
  • A Lousy excuse to talk about chocolate
  • CocoaBella Chocolates – closed
  • Alexander’s Patisserie
  • Breakable love
  • What’s that?
  • 2016 International Chocolate Salon winners
  • Warm up in the Richmond
  • Great, Danes!
  • The raw and the cooked
  • House of happy smiles
  • The Chocolate Garage – closed
  • When worlds collide
  • Stuff like that
  • Arabian Night
  • Chocolate Bacon
  • Chocolate heartbreak
  • Why?
  • Get the value pack
  • Congrats to the best
  • Art imitates life
  • No more skipped breakfasts
  • How to eat a box of chocolates
  • Breaking news at the Chocolate Salon
  • International Chocolate Salon winners
  • Make your own chocolate
  • 10-day week of chocolate
  • Snake & Butterfly
  • Get the lead out
  • Brown nose
  • $260 chocolate bar
  • Is today’s comic political?
  • From the ground up
  • Mariette Chocolates
  • Saratoga Chocolates – closed
  • Dolce Bella Chocolates & Café–closed
  • “Chocolatiering atelier” in NYC
  • Chocolate Dream Box– closed
  • Fleur de Cocoa
  • Schurra’s Fine Confections – closed
  • Farrell Confections @ Oracle Café 300 – closed
  • Go To Chocolate
  • Timothy Adams Chocolates
  • Her Coconess Confections–closed
  • Life after chocolate
  • Claudio Corallo/Alegio Chocolaté
  • See’s Candies Factory Shop
  • Guittard Chocolate Company
  • Sharona’s Chocolate Shop – closed
  • Draeger’s Market
  • The just-right salon
  • Jade Chocolates, Richmond District- moved
  • See’s Candies – Clement St.
  • Rippin’ good chocolate
  • Cool chocolate chic
  • Chocolate solves problems
  • International bad news affects chocolate
  • Chef’s choice chocolates
  • Jump-start Jade
  • The perfect cuppa
  • Follow David Lebovitz through Paris chocolate
  • Scharffen Berger posters for a steal
  • Candy jewelry
  • Chocolate souvenirs
  • Things are looking up in the candy aisle
  • Pretty, shiny chocolates
  • A place for everything, and everything…
  • What’s so funny ’bout chocolate?
  • For adults only
  • Drawn to Chocolate
  • 2014 Salon: This time, it’s personal
  • South South Bay
  • Market Hall Foods on 4th – closed
  • Chocolatier Blue – 4th Street, Berkeley – closed
  • Chocolate Covered
  • XOX Truffles
  • Schoggi Imported Swiss Chocolates–closed
  • CocoaBella Chocolates–closed
  • Nuubia SF–closed
  • Chocolatier Blue – SF Market St.–closed
  • Alter Eco Foods
  • Chocolaterie
  • Alegio Chocolaté – moved
  • {cocoa} – closed
  • Feve Artisan Chocolatier
  • Star Grocery
  • Casa de Chocolates
  • Piedmont Grocery
  • Bittersweet Café – Downtown Oakland–closed
  • See’s Candies – Rockridge
  • Market Hall Foods – Rockridge
  • Barlovento Chocolates – closed
  • The Chocolate Dragon Bittersweet Café & Bakery
  • Vice Chocolates – moved
  • Michael Mischer – closed
  • Coco Délice–closed
  • Chocolatier Blue – Valencia St.– closed
  • Bi-Rite Market
  • Sixth Course Artisan Confections
  • Charles Chocolates
  • Dandelion Chocolate – Valencia Street
  • Poco Dolce Confections
  • Little Nib – closed
  • theLab – closed
  • See’s Candies – Downtown Market St.
  • NewTree Café – closed
  • Fog City News – closed
  • La Cocina Kiosk – closed
  • NeoCocoa
  • Farm Fresh to You – closed
  • L’Amourette Chocolatier
  • Village Market
  • Recchiuti Confections: Ferry Building
  • Spicely Organics – closed
  • Socola Chocolatier
  • Forget Paris! At the 2014 Chocolate Salon
  • Wine Country: Sonoma County
  • Wine Country: Napa Valley
  • Marin
  • South Bay
  • San Francisco Peninsula
  • Outer East Bay
  • Berkeley-North +
  • Berkeley-West
  • Berkeley-East
  • Oakland/Emeryville
  • Bayview/Excelsior
  • Sunset District/SWSF
  • Richmond District
  • Castro District/Noe Valley San Francisco
  • North Beach/Russian Hill
  • Pacific Heights
  • Mission District
  • Civic Center/Hayes Valley San Francisco
  • Union Square/Chinatown
  • Dogpatch
  • Downtown San Francisco/SOMA
  • Chocolate icons
  • Double Dutch Sweets-closed
  • Eat chocolate for a good cause
  • A shop for Socola
  • Eat your vegetables
  • Saved by Kelly
  • Chocolate in wine country
  • There’s chocolate in my toothpaste
  • Fav in the news
  • Diamond in the rough
  • Googling KitKat
  • Color coding chocolate
  • Beyond bacon
  • Your mission: hot chocolate
  • White chocolate power?
  • Crispy, crunchy chocolate
  • Cruz-ing for chocolate
  • Learn to make truffles with Poco Dolce
  • Chocolate-y good ideas
  • Little patch of heavenly chocolate
  • 2013 Chocolate Salon: More than I could handle
  • Sweet little Easter bunnies
  • Chocolate gems at a DC farmers’ market
  • Dressing up in chocolate
  • Would you like some corn with that chocolate?
  • Chocolate snacks from Jade
  • TasteTV names Best American Chocolatiers & Confectioners for 2013
  • Chocolate Exhibit
  • Charles Chocolates is kicking it up again
  • From tree to bar
  • Free chocolate!
  • $6 Snickers bar
  • Chocolate sunscreen and other health benefits
  • Central Coast Chocolate
  • See’s good Fortune [article]
  • Fall into chocolate
  • Chocolate on screen
  • On a calorie & okane, d’argent (money) budget?
  • The perfect occasion to eat chocolate
  • Crazy-good chocolates in Westfield Center
  • New Tree on the block
  • Local chocolate expert to compete in France
  • What century do you want your chocolate from?
  • Mad for plaid
  • Chocolate 3-D printer
  • Ready for your close-up in chocolate?
  • Eat chocolate & lose weight
  • Lots of love at SF’s Chocolate Salon
  • Chocolate at your fingertips
  • Some SFBA chocolatiers recognized as best in America
  • Beneficial weed grows in SF
  • Artistic chocolates
  • SFBA chocolate lifestyle
  • Jade’s Blast from the Past
  • Chocolate-covered hearts
  • M-M good
  • Chocolate vacations
  • Back to the farm
  • Everybody buys chocolate
  • A good business for the long term
  • The ’Burgh Report
  • Bon-bon appetit in Burlingame
  • The chocolate of champions
  • Chocolate cliffhanger
  • Death by chocolate?
  • Sit-down chocolate
  • Serendipitous discovery in the South Bay
  • Christmas in July
  • The bee’s knees
  • What are you looking at?
  • Edible website
  • Truth in humor
  • Medical m-chocolate
  • Choco-NOLA
  • We aren’t the only ones who think Vice is nice
  • A room with a view
  • Shock & Awe at the 2011 SF Chocolate Salon
  • There’s chocolate in my peanut butter
  • Surviving a chocolate salon
  • How to taste chocolates
  • Rulers of the chocolate world
  • Our chocolate lifestyle
  • Unearthing chocolate’s history
  • What’s in your chocolate?
  • Old world taste in new world capitol
  • Capitol chocolate
  • Socola sisters: the new Lucy & Ethel?
  • Hot chocolate in the ’hood
  • Everything’s better dipped in chocolate
  • Fall Chocolate Salon round-up
  • The end of chocolate?
  • Chocolate by the numbers
  • Cranberries & chocolate
  • Sweet Shoppe
  • Money for chocolate
  • Chocolate-by-the-sea
  • Chocolate rainbow
  • Chocolate geek chic
  • Sad story about chocolate
  • What’s on your chocolate?
  • Chocolate Bread by Thorough Bread
  • The non-denominational treat
  • Not sold in stores!
  • Chocolate – As I live and breathe
  • Vice is nice
  • Let’s talk chocolate
  • There’s beer in my chocolate
  • Seriously chocolate torte
  • Abusing the term chocolatier
  • Charles changes things up
  • DC: Chocolate city?
  • If you’re not gonna eat that…
  • Local chocolate aggregators
  • It’s not just us who considers chocolate a staple
  • Hot cocoa funnies
  • Eating chocolate makes you smarter
  • Drink to your health
  • What we need here…
  • Future chocolate market: S. Korea?
  • Chocolate hugs & kisses
  • How unusual: Kimchi chocolate
  • Hot chocolate at Angelina, Paris
  • Temporary chocolate sites
  • Too good to eat?
  • Chocolate center of the universe