{"id":4658,"date":"2014-03-22T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T21:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=4658"},"modified":"2024-11-30T15:17:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T23:17:52","slug":"barlovento-chocolates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/barlovento-chocolates\/","title":{"rendered":"Barlovento Chocolates \u2013 closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Kitchen: 638 2nd St., Oakland<\/h4>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Oakland\/Emeryville tour\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/d-i-y-tours\/oaklandemeryville-tour\/\">Oakland\/Emeryville DIY Tour<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Venezuelan cacao<\/h2>\n<p>UPDATE March 2021: This business has closed.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Factory Store\" 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\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Local Chocolatier\" 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> <strong>Barlovento Chocolates,\u00a0<\/strong>founded in 2008 by Peter Brydon, a chocolatier who has been a mentor to a lot of other local chocolatiers. They make truffles, caramels, bars, barks, toffee, hot chocolate mix, molded chocolates, and other confections from Venezuelan cacao harvested in a sub-region called Barlovento.<\/p>\n<p>Barlovento\u2019s kitchen is open weekday afternoons for sales. You can find their bars in some shops around the area. Check their website for more information.<\/p>\n<h3>CBTB Tip:<\/h3>\n<p>For a truly hot truffle, get the Mayan Hot Chocolate. (It\u2019s the one wrapped in gold in the photo.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4827\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4827 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BarloventoBox.jpg\" alt=\"Barlovento Box\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BarloventoBox.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BarloventoBox-200x154.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Barlovento box full of flavor explosions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Read more on CBTB:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/ourchocolatiers\/pioneers-veterans-of-sfba-artisan-chocolate\/\">Pioneers &amp; veterans of SFBA artisan chocolate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Eat chocolate for a good cause\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/eat-chocolate-for-a-good-cause\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eat chocolate for a good cause<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Recommended\" href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/recommended\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Recommended<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barlovento closed in 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-tourpage.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,146,15,447,500],"tags":[1473,1074],"class_list":["post-4658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chocolatier-2","category-listingssfba","category-local-chocolate","category-tour-stop-oakland","category-tour-stop","tag-closed","tag-veteran-sfba-artisan-chocolatier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658","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=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44937,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions\/44937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}