{"id":1476,"date":"2011-02-04T18:31:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T02:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2024-05-16T13:48:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T20:48:22","slug":"our-chocolate-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/outsidechocolate\/our-chocolate-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Our chocolate lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a San Francisco Chronicle February 2011 article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/living\/article\/100-trends-shaping-our-West-Coast-lifestyle-2383000.php%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100 trends shaping our West Coast lifestyle<\/a>, artisan chocolates get a shout-out. Two local chocolatiers merited listing:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Feve Artisan Chocolatier\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/feve-artisan-chocolatier\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Au Coeur Des Chocolats (now Feve Artisan Chocolatiers)<\/a>,<\/strong> SF, for their air-brushed truffles (we love their S\u2019mores kits), and <strong><a title=\"Michael Mischer\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/michael-mischer\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Mischer<\/a><\/strong>, Oakland, for his salted toffee single-origin bars.<\/p>\n<p>We could\u2019ve filled the list with all locals (starting with <a title=\"Recommended\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/recommended\/\">our recommended list<\/a>), but since the article covers the West Coast, it includes chocolatiers in Seattle, Portland, Utah &amp; Colorado. Most of them do not offer online sales, so they are truly local \u2014 just not SFBA-local. They all look worth a visit when you\u2019re traveling.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2012: Au Coeur Des Chocolats closed, and its former owner, Shawn Williams, opened <strong>Feve Artisan Chocolatier,<\/strong> wholesale and online orders only.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2019: <strong>Feve Artisan Chocolatier<\/strong>\u00a0now has a store in their factory kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2020: Shawn sold <strong>Feve Artisan Chocolatier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2021: Michael Mischer retired. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/michaels-chocolates\/\">Michael\u2019s Chocolates<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/recommended\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1259\" title=\"cupicon\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/cupicon2.png\" alt=\"3-cup chocolatier\" width=\"14\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a> (different Michael) opened in the former Michael Mischer factory store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trend we are watching: more local artisan chocolate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,20,42,15,13,14,41,488],"tags":[30,167,17,316,73,7,430,4,26,1074],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-chocolate","category-chocolateroundtheworld","category-east-bay-chocolate","category-local-chocolate","category-outsidechocolate","category-ourchocolatiers","category-san-francisco-chocolate","category-update","tag-artisan","tag-chocolate-bars","tag-chocolatier","tag-feve-artisan-chocolatier","tag-michael-mischer","tag-oakland","tag-recommended","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-truffles","tag-veteran-sfba-artisan-chocolatier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42941,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/42941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}