{"id":1516,"date":"2011-03-29T17:50:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T00:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2024-02-18T13:25:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T21:25:54","slug":"rulers-of-the-chocolate-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/ourchocolatiers\/rulers-of-the-chocolate-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Rulers of the chocolate world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least The Best Chocolatiers and Confectioners in America (2011 edition) according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tastetv.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taste TV<\/a> and their chocolate salons. Based on the total cumulative number of Gold and Silver Awards received by each entrant in the 2010 TasteTV Chocolate Salons and Chocolate Salon Award Competitions, Taste TV announced Grand Masters, Masters and Excellent Chocolatiers on March 29, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>SFBA dominates the Grand Masters list with 4 out of the 8 entrants being locals. Six out of 15 Masters are SFBA-based. And 14 out of 45 Excellence Awards went to SFBA entrants.<\/p>\n<h2>Local Grand Masters 2011<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/listingssfba\/chocolatier-2\/dolce-bella-chocolates-cafe\/\">Dolce Bella Chocolates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/guittard-chocolate-company\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guittard Chocolate Company<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/jade-chocolates-2\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jade Chocolates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/listingssfba\/chocolatier-2\/vice-chocolates-2\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vice Chocolates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Local Masters 2011<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/alter-eco-foods\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alter Eco Fair Trade Chocolate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/feve-artisan-chocolatier\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Au Coeur Des Chocolats<\/a> (now Feve Artisan Chocolatier)<\/li>\n<li>Clarine&#8217;s Florentines<\/li>\n<li>Gateau et Ganache<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/saratoga-chocolates\/\">Saratoga Chocolates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/listingssfba\/chocolatier-2\/socola-chocolatier-barista\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Socola Chocolatier<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1257\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/cupicon1.png\" alt=\"3-5 cup chocolatier\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Local Excellent Chocolatiers &amp; Confectioners 2011<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>CJ&#8217;s Bitz<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/coco-delice\/\">Coco Delice<\/a> <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=\"4-cup chocolatier\" width=\"14\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/ourchocolatiers\/cocotutti\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coco Tutti<\/a> <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=\"4-cup chocolatier\" width=\"14\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Coco-luxe Confections<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/ghirardelli-chocolate-company\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghirardelli Chocolate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/her-coconess-confections\/\">Her Coconess<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kikastreats.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kika\u2019s Treats<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Landru Chocolates<\/li>\n<li>Salt Side Down Chocolates<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/snake-butterfly\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snake &amp; Butterfly<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sterlingconfections.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sterling Confections<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/tcho\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TCHO<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Tea Room Chocolate<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/xox-truffles\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">XOX Truffles<\/a> <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=\"4-cup chocolatier\" width=\"14\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congratulations all around to our excellent, masterful local chocolate makers. I hope to see you all at this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/events\/\">SF Salon<\/a>, April 17. (I\u2019m going to be a judge!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least The Best Chocolatiers and Confectioners in America (2011 edition) according to Taste TV and their chocolate salons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,15,14,41,131],"tags":[353,94,725,107,140,275,105,724,316,576,220,722,356,102,97,177,595,723,170,360,99,281,100,274,633,352,185,110],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-bay-chocolate","category-local-chocolate","category-ourchocolatiers","category-san-francisco-chocolate","category-south-bay-chocolate","tag-alter-eco-fair-trade-chocolate","tag-chocolate-salon","tag-clarines-florentines","tag-coco-delice","tag-coco-luxe","tag-cocotutti","tag-dolce-bella","tag-excellent-chocolatier","tag-feve-artisan-chocolatier","tag-gateau-et-ganache","tag-ghirardelli","tag-grand-master","tag-guittard-chocolate-company","tag-her-coconess","tag-jade-chocolates","tag-kikas-treats","tag-landru-chocolates","tag-master","tag-salt-side-down","tag-saratoga-chocolates","tag-snake-butterfly","tag-socola-chocolatier","tag-sterling-confections","tag-tastetv","tag-tcho","tag-the-tearoom-chocolate-co","tag-vice-chocolates","tag-xox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","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=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41690,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/41690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}