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

2016 Fall Chocolate Salon

Chocolate sprinkles

Seems like the theme for this Fall Chocolate Salon was ABC: All ’Bout Coconut (with some serious bling on the side)

Ora Cacao logo

Ora Cacao, formerly Firefly Chocolate

Firefly Chocolate was the first bean-to-bar chocolate maker in Sonoma County and the first maker to use nuts from California Bay Laurel trees in chocolate

Endorfin bars

Endorfin Foods

Endorfin Foods, is an Berkeley-based chocolate maker, whose chocolate is almost raw and free of dairy, soy, gluten, GMOs and refined sugar.

CocoTutti logo

CocoTutti

Founded by architect & baker Elyce Zahn in 2010, CocoTutti makes truffles, bars and more from scratch.

Jade Chocolates card

Paper sweets

Not everything in a chocolate shop has to be edible to be sweet.

McCreas Singles

Kids’ meal

We all looked like responsible adults, but we weren’t just having dessert with lunch; dessert was lunch.

Japanese Chocolate Garden

A cacao tree grows in Japan

Possibly there are cacao trees in Japan. At the very least, imitation cacao pods and some real chocolate were found

chocolate Deluge

Chocolate Deluge

We were awash in the El Niño of chocolate at the 2016 International Chocolate Salon