{"id":411,"date":"2010-01-28T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T19:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=411"},"modified":"2024-02-19T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T21:09:41","slug":"local-chocolate-aggregatos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/ourchocolatiers\/local-chocolate-aggregatos\/","title":{"rendered":"Local chocolate aggregators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rain. Fog. Heat. Cold. Tired. No time. Lost. Whatever the reason, if you don&#8217;t feel like seeking out individual SFBA chocolatiers, here are some places where you can find a selection of local chocolate:<\/p>\n<h2>In San Francisco:<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Chocolate Covered\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/d-i-y-tours\/tour-stop\/tour-stop-noe-valley-sf\/chocolate-covered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chocolate Covered<\/a>, <\/strong>4069-24th St., between Noe &amp; Castro, Noe Valley neighborhood, SF. A world of chocolate, lots of exotic flavor combinations, it carries local chocolates too.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Bi-Rite Market\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/listingssfba\/bi-rite-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bi-Rite Market<\/a>,<\/strong> 3639 18th St. (between Guerrero and Dolores), Mission neighborhood. Neighborhood grocery store with an emphasis on local and sustainable foods. Has an excellent chocolate selection featuring many local chocolatiers.<\/p>\n<h2>In the East Bay:<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Bittersweet Caf\u00e9 \u2013 Rockridge\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/bittersweet-cafe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Chocolate Dragon Bittersweet Caf\u00e9 &amp; Bakery<\/a>,<\/strong> 5427 College Avenue, Rockridge neighborhood, Oakland. In addition to their hot chocolate drinks and pastries, they carry chocolate from around the world and some local chocolates.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Star Grocery\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/listingssfba\/star-grocery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Star Grocery<\/a>, <\/strong>3068 Claremont Ave., between Prince St &amp; The Uplands, Claremont neighborhood, Berkeley. Like a mom-and-pop version of Whole Foods, this locally-owned store carries some local chocolates.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Piedmont Grocery\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/listingssfba\/piedmont-grocery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Piedmont Grocery<\/a>,<\/strong> 4038 Piedmont Ave., between 40th St &amp; Glen Ave., Oakland. Nice selection of imported chocolates, some local chocolates too.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/listingssfba\/the-pasta-shop\/\">Market Hall Foods<\/a>,<\/strong> 5655 College Avenue, Oakland. Also <a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/listingssfba\/the-pasta-shop-4th-st\/\">1786 4th Street<\/a>, Berkeley. Lots of specialty foods including artisan chocolate. They are a big supporter of local artisan chocolate.<\/p>\n<h2>On the Peninsula:<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Draeger's Market\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/listingssfba\/draegers-market\/\">Draeger\u2019s Market<\/a>,<\/strong> 222 East 4th Avenue, San Mateo. The south of SF place to go for a variety of local chocolatiers in one location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you only have time to visit one place for chocolate in SFBA, try one of these<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,42,15,14,41,488],"tags":[130,90,84,622,5,7,82,4,81],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chocolate-tours","category-east-bay-chocolate","category-local-chocolate","category-ourchocolatiers","category-san-francisco-chocolate","category-update","tag-bi-rite-market","tag-bittersweet-cafe","tag-chocolate-covered","tag-draegers","tag-eastbay","tag-oakland","tag-piedmont-grocery","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-star-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41952,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/41952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}