{"id":87,"date":"2009-11-19T19:01:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T03:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=87"},"modified":"2022-10-20T14:16:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:16:28","slug":"chocolate-hugs-kisses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/ourchocolatiers\/chocolate-hugs-kisses\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate hugs & kisses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recommended by the Four Chocolateers of CBTB: XOX Truffles of San Francisco<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But we are not the only ones to think this place is tops. In fact, we are latecomers: In 2001, it was rated one of the top 10 chocolatiers in the US by Chocolatier Magazine,<\/em> and an ultimate chocolate (the highest rating) by the Rosengarten Report.<\/em> (It even beat out Michael Recchiuti<\/a>, another of our favs.)<\/p>\n

\"Free
Free truffle with your coffee? Mais oui!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The truffles come in many flavors \u2014 including liqueurs, fruits, tea, even peanut butter \u2014 and are adorably hand-crafted, no molds used here. The truffles are a lovely size, not too big, but filling your mouth with a wonderful chocolate flavor that melds with the added flavorings in each truffle.<\/p>\n

\"Delicious
Delicious hand-shaped truffles from XOX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The place is fun to visit for more than the obvious reward of eating truffles. It\u2019s a working chocolate shop with cocoa powder clinging to the white subway tiles on the back wall, and you can practice your French with owner & chef Jean-Marc Gorce. If you can\u2019t be in Paris (chocolate capitol of the world, IMHO), this is a fine substitute.
\nXOX Truffles,<\/strong> 754 Columbus Avenue, between Filbert and Greenwich, SF.<\/p>\n

Worth checking out for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you can only get to one chocolatier in San Francisco, XOX is it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,169],"tags":[30,3,17,239,6,27,518,11,138,430,4,221,26,1074,110],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-chocolate","category-ourchocolatiers","category-reviews","tag-artisan","tag-chocolate","tag-chocolatier","tag-coffee","tag-darkchocolate","tag-french","tag-handmade","tag-paris","tag-peanut-butter","tag-recommended","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-tea","tag-truffles","tag-veteran-sfba-artisan-chocolatier","tag-xox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35428,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/35428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}