{"id":13804,"date":"2019-09-09T18:33:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T01:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=13804"},"modified":"2024-02-18T16:46:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T00:46:55","slug":"le-belge-chocolatier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/le-belge-chocolatier\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Belge Chocolatier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13806\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LeBelgeBars.jpg\" alt=\"Le Belge Bars\" width=\"700\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LeBelgeBars.jpg 700w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LeBelgeBars-320x92.jpg 320w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LeBelgeBars-640x185.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LeBelgeBars-348x100.jpg 348w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LeBelgeBars-200x58.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>761 Skyway Court, Napa<\/h4>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/d-i-y-tours\/wine-country-tour-2\/\">Napa Valley DIY Tour<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Not your typical supermarket chocolate<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/d-i-y-tours\/chocolate-icons\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/72LocalChocolatier.png\" alt=\"Local Chocolatier\" width=\"72\" height=\"68\" \/><\/a>Started in 1984 in Napa by 2 Parisian chocolatiers, top-quality <a href=\"https:\/\/lebelgechocolatier.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Le Belge Chocolatier<\/strong><\/a> is unbelievably under the radar, but worth seeking out. Now helmed by another Parisian, Sebastian Beline, they make French-style truffles, bars, and tablets (squares).<\/p>\n<p>They have no store, but their bars are carried by some SFBA stores (we spotted some LeBelge bars at <a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/listingssfba\/star-grocery\/\">Star Grocery<\/a> in Berkeley), and you can <a href=\"https:\/\/lebelgechocolatier.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">order their complete line online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They also make the store brand bars for <a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/olivers-market-stony-point\/\">Oliver\u2019s Market<\/a>, the Sonoma County grocery store chain. The Oliver\u2019s Gourmet Chocolate line consists of 7 bars ranging from 31% milk to 72% dark and include flavors like Toffee Pretzel, Espresso, Sea Salt Almond, Mixed Berry, Chipotle Pepper, and Strawberry Champagne.<\/p>\n<h3>CBTB tip<\/h3>\n<p>The Oliver\u2019s Gourmet Chocolate line are a great value: 3 oz. of Belgian chocolate for $4 (2019 price), and they include delicious flavor combinations. Available only at <a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/olivers-market-stony-point\/\">Oliver\u2019s Markets<\/a> in Sonoma County.<\/p>\n<h3>CBTB mentions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/locally-french\/\">Locally French<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/local-chocolate-finds-at-wine-country-grocery-store\/\">Local chocolate finds at wine country grocery store<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French-style chocolate you can buy at the supermarket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-tourpage.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,145,146,15,1331,884],"tags":[17,1089,1468,1120,1092,1082,1337],"class_list":["post-13804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shops","category-chocolatier-2","category-listingssfba","category-local-chocolate","category-wine-country-napa","category-north-bay","tag-chocolatier","tag-le-belge-chocolatier","tag-listing","tag-napa","tag-olivers-market","tag-sonoma-county","tag-star-grocery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13804"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41809,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13804\/revisions\/41809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}