{"id":14588,"date":"2020-02-05T13:36:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=14588"},"modified":"2025-05-18T10:57:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T17:57:31","slug":"la-foret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/la-foret\/","title":{"rendered":"La For\u00eat \u2013 closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14675\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/La-Foret-storefront.jpg\" alt=\"La Foret storefront\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/La-Foret-storefront.jpg 700w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/La-Foret-storefront-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/La-Foret-storefront-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/La-Foret-storefront-348x261.jpg 348w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/La-Foret-storefront-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Browns Valley Center,\u00a03261 Browns Valley Rd, Napa<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/d-i-y-tours\/wine-country-tour-2\/\"><strong>Wine Country: Napa Valley DIY tour<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/d-i-y-tours\/chocolate-icons\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4394\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/72FactoryStore.png\" alt=\"Factory Store\" width=\"72\" height=\"68\" \/><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\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28884\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Confectioner.png\" alt=\"Confectioner icon\" width=\"72\" height=\"68\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Chocolate worth beating a path to<\/h2>\n<p>UPDATE June 2022: La For\u00eat has closed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>La For\u00eat,<\/strong> est. in \u00a02010 by French trained chocolatier Wendy Sherwood, is a little off the beaten path in wine country, but totally worth seeking out. While they do not sell truffles on site (they are only available online 4x a year), there is plenty of good chocolate in the rest of their line to make the trip worthwhile. Bars, caramel chocolates, orangettes and other dipped\/enrobed confections, plus non-chocolate treats like flavored caramels and p\u00e2te de fruit \u2014 basically an assortment you would expect to find in a typical French chocolate shop. The chocolate used is exceptionally good: Wendy mixes her own coverture out of a blend of Valrhona and Guittard chocolates.<\/p>\n<h3>CBTB mentions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/the-last-hurrah\/\">The last hurrah<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/last-chance-chocolate\/\">Last chance chocolate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/sweet-torture\/\">Sweet torture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/north-bay\/our-foray-to-la-foret\/\">Our foray to La For\u00eat<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La For\u00eat was chocolate worth beating a path to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-tourpage.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1083,145,146,15,1331,884,500],"tags":[17,1473,1317,1122,62,798,1120,64],"class_list":["post-14588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shops","category-gone-but-not-forgotten","category-chocolatier-2","category-listingssfba","category-local-chocolate","category-wine-country-napa","category-north-bay","category-tour-stop","tag-chocolatier","tag-closed","tag-factory-store","tag-french-chocolate","tag-guittard","tag-la-foret-chocolate","tag-napa","tag-valrhona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588","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=14588"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41777,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588\/revisions\/41777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}