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Neighborhood: Noe ValleyMon-Sun. 10:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
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This place is a little pricey, but they have some really amazing stuff. Aztec chile sea salt topped bittersweet chocolate is sick! I don't mean bad, I mean OMG! I had also had a salted caramel that had a hint of lavendar.
The tins are worth the $14 & $18 and I got one.
Walking down 24th St, I spotted Chocolate Covered from over a block away. Hmmmm, I'll just take a quick peek in and maybe try just one little treat....
Within 2 minutes, my hands were filled with chocolate delights. The sign did say sweets AND gifts, and I can think of no one more deserving of a present than myself. Besides, how often am I in Noe Valley? Might as well just try everything now. And this is how one little treat turns into a $15 "snack". If anyone out there ever does feel like giving me a gift, a guide book on setting limits and self control might be useful.
I ultimately left the store with:
1. Dark chocolate malt balls: high class whoppers. I was disappointed in a chocolate malt I had the other day and needed some serious malt taste to make up for it. Mission accomplished.
2. Ginger liquor truffle: My favorite item of all. I originally picked a peppermint schnapps truffle, but I always go the mint and choco route, so decided to trade it in for something different. Glad I did, the ginger ganache in the center was to die for.
3. Dark chocolate honeycomb: a classic choice for me, I love this combo. Sometimes honeycomb can taste stale, but these were perfectly fresh.
4. Passionfruit dark chocolates: fruity liquidy gel-type center surrounded by chocolate. I love passionfruit, so there was really no way to go wrong here.
5. A sample of chocolate chili cashew bark: The trend of spicy chocolate has been slow to grow on me, but I did actually enjoy this one. I probably wouldn't want a whole bar to myself, but it was a nice taste.
I envisioned myself nibbling on everything slowly with a chocolate stash to last me days, but of course it was gone within hours. And there are about 100 other things in this store I'd like to try, so hopefully I'll be making my way back to Noe Valley sooner rather than later.
An offbeat store that adds character to an otherwise unadventurous street.
The proprietor is a friendly chap who gives off that "caring local business owner vibe" and his son and daughter were hanging out with him watching the Giants game... a very sweet picture if you pardon the pun.
The chocolate selection was excellent and the store is also filled with lunchboxes and San Francisco themed gift tins (no, they don't have lame photos of the bridge). If you were putting together a gift, I suppose chocolate bars from all over the world and a tin would go together nicely... I was shopping for myself so I focused on the bonbons and bars.
I eventually ended up with some interesting finds and left as happy as a clam (who likes chocolate).
This place (although a tad pricey) provides both great chocolate and hand made tins. If you want to make a custom tin (they're hand made), the proprietor will help you with it for a fee, but it's well worth it.
I love that Chocolate Covered (in truth its passionate, service-focused, hands-on owner) tracks down the best of the best. It's not about one chocolatier professing to deliver the best of chocoholic indulgence from a dedicated storefront.
I live in Vancouver BC but every time I'm in San Francisco I try to stop in. A friend introduced me to this place and its become a tradition.
So many versions of salt-inspired chocolate alone! It's a little adventure stepping in here, and I highly recommend that you do.
Indeed, Mo's Bacon Bar just about tops it (I think the new dark chocolate version overpowers the bacon, though). Competing with it is the pistachio chile brittle which is outrageously good as the heat lingers!
Fabulous, dahlings, fabulous....
As soon as I get a job, the first thing I'm doing is giving Chocolate Covered the $4 I owe them for their Divine Mint Chocolate bar.
They had a fantastic selection of chocolates from all over and I believe some fair-trade options as well.
They have a $5 card minimum and the chocolate I bought that day was $4 so they just told me to pay when I could.
The chocolate I bought didn't last long because it was so amazing.
As I was strolling through Noe Valley last night with my best friend and her husband, killing time before dinner at Contigo, I happened upon Chocolate Covered. As we entered I could tell at once my best friend would go bonkers. She's a chocolate freak! We walked in and started oohing and aahing over the plethora of chocolate there. As we made our way up to the front, we started talking with the owner. This man knows his chocolate! He's been doing this for about 15 years and has really built up quite a wonderful selection.
Along with chocolate he has an amazing selection of vintage looking lunch boxes as well as original, hand crafted tins with images of San Francisco. He also said he does custom work as well.
What really put me over the top with this store was the owner's hospitality and knowledge. We sat talking with him for over ten minutes about the various chocolates he had. He also let us taste quite a few of them, including the first camel's milk chocolate. Apparently he's the first in the US to sell it!
Sadly we had to leave to get to dinner so we didn't get to check out everything...but no doubt we'll be back!
When I was a kid, I owned & carried two lunch boxes before I got too be too "cool & grown" for them: The Muppets & Fraggle Rock. When I walked into Chocolate Covered, i felt like the good ole' days- like I was 6 again and lunch boxes were all the rage, except now they've got Harold & Kumar ones! Also, a feeling of nostalgia swept over me like a tidal wave looking up at the different street names & local hang outs featured on their tin boxes. So effin cool. I even found my old street name-it was so random that they'd have this tiny street in the Mission. Lunch boxes are about $26, small tins $14 and big tins $18.
Their selection of chocolate gave me diabetes just looking at it. They have everything from tea infused chocolate to dark chocolate/dried fruit combo candy bars. This is the perfect place to find an original San Francisco gift for out of town buddies: perhaps some chocolates piled into a tin with a picture of "bliss bar" on it?!
*EDIT* my friend & I went in last week & I picked up a white chocolate bar infused with chamomile tea & honey & you know that song by Lonely Island- "jizz in my pants?" Yea, it was something like that.
Most everything here is chocolate covered, save for the San Francisco-specific tins that line their magnetic walls. Pencil boxes, made of tin and in two sizes, feature SF street signs, landmarks, schools and churches. No doubt, almost every street in the City is represented on a gift-worthy box. I got my new roommate a tin featuring our Bernal Heights street name--it even was a shot of the street sign right on our 300 block.
Perfect for City-centric gift giving.
Where else can you buy cayenne- or chili-spiced chocolate that's delicious and semi-good for you? (something about cacao beens sending positive vibes to eat free radicals to lower blood pressure, I don't know, my last chemistry class was literally 10 years ago). This place has li-ter-ally every kind of chocolate you could imagine, from milk chocolate soccer balls to chocolate that tastes like balls (a ginger-cumin something or other). The owner works pretty regularly and will let you taste and ask and taste and ask until you've learned everything you ever wanted to know about the best elevation for growing cacao beans.
Not only is there delicious chocolate, but the owner is also an arteest of sorts who takes pictures of street signs and puts them on varying-size tins, from pill-box to lunch-box size. Can't find what you're looking for? He'll take a picture of whatever you want and put it on a tin. Look for my face on one soon...
I found my street!!! It's such a unique store and I also got to try Mo's Bacon Bar!! Who would've thunk to put these two together and come up with such a brilliant flavor and texture combination that 's soo mouth watering-leee creamy and heavenly divine!! It's expensive but worth the taste. A must see place to go to in the city!
While exploring my other favorite neighborhood in the City with my sister during her visit, we stumbled upon this great find! She likes it so much that she's asked me to ship her their chocolate to her.
I mistakenly called it Chocolate Museum when raving about it to my friends, but I think that's an appropriate name. One side of its wall is covered in top-to-bottom display of an extensive variety of chocolates, including fancy packaged international to organically grown by local chocolatiers. The other side of the wall holds all sorts of lunch boxes - from GI Joe to My Little Pony - which adds to the fun.
We could have spent hours there, walking down memory lane over lunch boxes and nibbling the various samples the woman who was working at the time shared with us. We oohed & aahed as the chocolate aficionado woman explained her love for the different types of chocolates and we left thinking about which chocolate piece would come home with us on the next visit.
Note: On the following visit, it was confirmed that the friendly service during my first visit had rounded out the experience to five stars. Although I left with yummy chocolate pieces in hand, the unhelpful workers who were flirting with each other made the chocolate seem more pricey.
But I would go back; I heart the neighborhood, street, and chocolate!
Cool stuff and lots of chocolate. Way overpriced
A friend told me of some Pistachio Chili Bark at this place, and raves about it so much, I just had to go. Walking in, my eyes were instantly drawn to the walls, were just about every street in San Francisco is on it's own tin in two sizes. I even found the street one with my surname on it. It's someplace in the TenderNob, I think. So I had to get that. While I was at it, I might as well get one with my street name on it as well. Filled with chocolate, they make for a unique gift. I'm told that for $10 more, you can bring in any picture, and they will make the same tin for you, with that picture.
I don't see how you can find anything you want in this store, as it's cramped, and not in any kind of order. Luckily, the store owner will direct you to what you want. I suppose half the fun is trying to find what you want, and try new kinds of chocolate.
Want some from a certain country, they will have it. Don't expect to find any Snicker's Bar here. Don't pass up the Pistachio Chili Bark. It's not spicy at first, then heats up just at the finish.
I still like Fog City News, but this place has it's own charm, but it's a bit harder for me to get to.
Ok. I love this place. Where else can you get an old school little mermaid, or bat man lunch box?? Where else can you have a lunch box decorated with your own photographs - by hand? Where else can you get a free sample of bacon chocolate???
Every time I walk into this place, either the owner or the few other employees greets me sweetly, and I genuinely feel that they are there to help. They're not there to push you into buying something, nor are they there simply because they need to make rent. They're actually *happy to help you*. Novel idea in this day and age, right?
I confess, they're a tad expensive, but for a place as creative and wonderful as this, I'm willing to pay the slight difference. There should be more places like this in the world.
Anyway. Stop in here if you ever have a chance. It's totally a little novelty shop, but you're bound to find something you like!!
I'm a member of a chocolate club in my workplace and we went down to visit Chocolate Covered on an outing. Wonderful place. Pali layed out some samples for us and gave our palates a ride. Everyone is very informative and the place is a treasure chest of all kinds of chocolates.
I have read some reviews pointing out the prices. I'm not surprised that a specialized shop like this would have to charge a little more for some products since most people don't purchase them everyday. I would prefer not to stand in line behind people buying lotto tickets and beer in order for them to bring the prices down.
I manage a specialty store -- my bookstore only carries science fiction, fantasy, and horror books. And frequently people come in and they are amazed that a bookstore can survive with such a narrow specialty. But one of the things that I LOVE about San Francisco is that it can cheerfully support all kinds of specialty stores, including a few for EXOTIC CHOCOLATE. How wonderful! How civilized. How downright cosmopolitan.
Try the raspberries covered with bittersweet chocolate and raw sugar. Or how about the 18 different kinds of orange-infused chocolate? Chocolate with cinnamon, done. Chocolate with chili powder -- fine, milk or dark? They have chocolate-covered stuff I haven't even thought of. And they are generous with the samples, too. Long may this place live.
Yes, there's expensive chocolate here. What stands out is the collection of tin boxes, where every San Francisco street is represented. And you can bring in your own photo to make your own tin box.
If you love chocolate or need to buy gifts for someone who loves chocolate, come to Chocolate Covered. It's conveniently next to one of the few parking lots in Noe Valley, and only a few blocks from the J Church line. These people are very generous with the samples, too, which in my case has been a fiscally wise move as I've bought many of the gratis bars I've tasted. And I should mention that this stuff is not cheap, in quality or price. I haven't left there for less than $30, and that's just a few bars. Disablingly delicious chocolate bars.
Mmmm....chocolate covered New Orleans chickory
A girl's gotta splurge when a girl's gotta splurge.
I love this place mostly because my favorite chocolate lives here: Venchi's Peperoncino (chili peper)--45 grams of yummy.
I'm also thoroughly impressed by how knowledgeable and gracious the owner is. He's always helpful without being pushy; he listens to what I'm looking for/what my usual tastes are before making suggestions.
I must also mention that I luuuuuuurve the "here, taste this" style of helping a customer.
Works for me.
I was in the neighborhood and was told this is the store of the famous Mos' Bacon Bar so I had to stop in for a look-see.
The store is very cute and filled with chocolate so who could complain? I looked for Belgium chocolate and they had it but it was pretty expensive. OK, not expensive when you consider the exchange rate and the shipping from Belgium and the chocolate itself but after living in Belgium and use to buying the same thing for next to nothing, it's really hard for me to cough 4x that for the same thing. So, needless to say, I left without the Cote d'Or 70% Cacao bars.
However, I did get the small (.5oz) bar of Mo's Bacon Bar. It was 41% cacao with apple wood smoked bacon for $2.50. I already respect the company because from their ingredients, they make chocolate the proper way and they put the cacao percentage on the front. YEA.
When I first heard bacon chocolate I thought it would be gross. But I made some bacon chocolate cupcakes that were really good. You don't taste the bacon at first, just the chocolate and the bacon is an aftertaste.
With the Mo bacon chocolate the first nibble was the chocolate and then it sat in my mouth melting. Chocolate. Then there it was, the bacon. A faint taste, more of an aftertaste, but pleasant. I expected lots more bacon flavor but it was much more subtle. Very, very good.
This place is outrageous. First of all, they carry my favorite chocolate, Casa Don Puglisi, which is oh-so-good but oh-so-difficult to find. I had previously found this gem at Cheese Plus on Polk, but they only stock the vanilla variety, which I'm less-than-enamored with. Chocolate Covered has this little champion in all of its iterations: classic, coffee, pistachio, ginger, cinnamon, chile, vanilla, and (my new fave) bergamotto, which brings me to my second, yet equally-important, point.
I was unsure as to whether something as unique as bergamot could contribute to the already-perfect Puglisi chocolate (the ingredients of the classic? cocoa paste and sugar). However, here's where Chocolate Covered sold me (and why I will never go back to Bittersweet again even though they have called me to tell me that their Puglisi shipment has arrived): you get to try before you buy. Yes, you can try as much as you like before you purchase. Or, if you'd prefer, you can purchase what you came for and THEN have a little cocao powwow with the lovely crew that works there. When I go, I usually buy four bars, but end up eating the equivalent of another two just talking about chocolate with whoever's behind the counter. I've been in here just to check on new stuff only to be force-fed single-origin bars until I couldn't even THINK about buying more chocolate, and no one there minds at all when I don't. They're genuinely psyched about just eating chocolate with someone, and the owner, Jack, is a super nice guy and knows more about chocolate than anyone should have a right to.
How this business model is sustainable, I do not know. But, to be fair, I also do not care. If you are really into chocolate, it would be disgraceful to go somewhere else. Jack has also told me that he sometimes organizes private chocolate tastings, which could be the sexiest idea for a party evs.
I teach elementary school kids and frequently get the question: "What's your favorite food?" I respond with "chocolate" every time. Despite the fact they're only in 2nd grade, some of them remember this and tell their mommies and daddies who then remember when they go to buy me a holiday gift. Awesome.
So when I'm not eating chocolate from them, I like to stop in to CC for something new. I especially like the variety of bars they stock from individual brands and the fact that some of those companies offer what is essentially the same bar, but made with beans from different countries.
Once I've picked out my chocolate, I like to look at the wall of boxes. He's got two kinds here: old school lunch boxes (the ones with your favorite cartoon characters) and hand-covered tins. The tins come in a wide variety of sizes. Many have photographs of street signs or famous people on them, but you can also bring in your own photo to have him put on a tin. As if chocolate wasn't already an excellent gift, it can be even better if it's presented in a really cool and meaningful tin.
Oh, and if you don't see your street represented on the tins, the owner is always collecting photos of street signs from customers.
Chocolate galore! I love this place, one side has the cute cases and the other side is adorned with chocolate bars, truffles, chunks, etc. It was hard deciding what to get. The owner this friendly guy was sitting at the counter offering up free samples: a chocolate with bacon bits and one with chili. Chocolate with bacon is unique and I say, "It tastes like breakfast." I don't like chocolate with chili so I skipped that sample.
I am in a craze for tea infused chocolates. I was not disappointed by their selection of tea infused chocolates. They had pair truffles from Charles chocolates infused with different teas (lichee and jasmine). They had a good variety of milk, white, and dark base with a variety of different teas. I ended up buying two bars one with ground up raspberry tea leaves in a dark chocolate and an earl grey with dark chocolate. The prices for my bars were $5 and $6, which is not bad. I can spend a lot more on truffles at Cocoa Bella.
*hint* hint* someone's birthday is coming up soon. All chocolates are welcomed.
Whenever I would walk by this store, all I could see was the painted Altoid boxes with SF street names in the window.
"Tchotchkes...pish tosh," I would think, with a sniff and a wave of my hand.
*But little did I know what magical surprises lay inside.*
I just happened upon Mary A's review (http://www.yelp.com/bi...) extolling the virtues of Mo's Bacon Chocolate, and the proprietors of the store, and I had to check it out for myself. Walking up to the store, I saw the painted boxes ("ooooh, so THIS is the place*).
So many different kinds of chocolate! I couldn't find the bacon bar, so I asked behind the counter. Apparently this is one of the hot items, as they already had a bar open for sampling (who wouldn't want to try this?). We left with a bar of Mo's, and four pieces of honeycomb to fuel us on the long hike to the Castro (with that extra little oomph for checking out the daddies at the Bar).
The bacon chocolate is yummy (and, I've found, the perfect combo for PMS). But as I continue to eat it, I'm finding that the chocolate is really just a vehicle for the bacon - it's nice to find out some things about yourself through your candy choices...like the discovery that I actually DO prefer bacon over chocolate! Now if I want to indulge these cravings, I know I can just get some bacon...or a jar of bits...without having to buy an $8 bar of Mo's.
This place is what San Francisco used to be. Try the fudge bars. All different kinds of stuff and great service
I've been to Fog City News, its closest rival in the chocolate department, but it lacks a certain charm that Chocolate Covered has.
A narrow shop showcasing a vast amount of chocolate, locally and from around the world, the other draw to this place are their novelty lunch box cases. Though, I managed to fend off the urge to buy a couple of their smaller tins, I couldn't resist purchasing a tin with my street name. (You know you've got a good thing going when you influence your customers to buy things they don't really need.) I walked out $30 poorer, but was so mesmerized by the selection and conversing with employee, Pali (of Rocket Dog Rescue fame), that I didn't mind all that much. Her and Jack, the owner, were unbelievably helpful in selecting bars based on my tastes. Like others have mentioned, the chili and pistachio bark is a must buy.
My only gripe is that the bars are a bit pricey--especially the ones that I can buy at Whole Foods for at least a dollar less. When you say you can get something at Whole Foods for cheaper, I think that's a safe bet that you're charging too much. But overall, I adore Chocolate Covered and will make it a point to patronize more often, not only for myself, but for others; their tins would make for a great gift.
The greatest draw about Chocolate Covered is the owner. And that's saying a lot when the store offers a wide variety of chocolates and packaging.
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. Who doesn't love chocolate? Lately I've been pursuing new exotic chocolates. Chocolate Covered is a gold mine for those interested in expanding your palette. It's also great one stop gift shopping place. They even sell baking chocolate for chocolatiers, candy makers, and bakers!
The owner has an extensive knowledge of chocolate and his inventory. He's quick to your service and can easily find any chocolate to suit your liking. Although he boasts a connoisseur's knowledge tongue, he never speaks down to you. This turned out to be a unique chocolate experience.
I ending up buying chocolate from Chicago, Utah, and Portland! I don't regret it!
The chili-pistachio dark chocolate bark made me swoon, lose my balance, and knock down 5 retro lunch boxes as well as, unfortunately, a 4 year old child!
Before you start to think that I'm a clutzy buffoon, be aware that it COULD happen to you. The shop is narrow - it could happen to you!
Oh, yeah - try that bark. You'll thank me!
I'm not going to say anything new it seems from reading the reviews. I love chocolate. I could eat chocolate everyday.
If you love chocolate this is the place to come. No, it's not cheap - $7.00 for a chocolate bar all the time would put me in the fat man's poorhouse in no time flat. But the selection of chocolate is amazing...milk,dark, white, whatever you want from every continent. Plus they are always sampling something new.
Sounds weird but you have to try the chocolate bar with tiny bits on smoked bacon in it, thought it would be too weird to try but it is now my favorite bar. The whole sweet salty thing is awesome, like the salted caramel ice cream at Bi-rite. Plus it's cool to come and check out the lunchboxes and all the little blue tins with SF street names on them. (the owner makes them).
This tiny place is painted blue which is how I felt after visiting Choclate Covered, hiking up & down the hills to noe valley to visit the anticipated chocolate store that had 4.5 stars on yelp. It was like the store was built in an alley. It's long and narrow with eclectic lunch boxes on the left and chocolate on the right. They had a good selection of chocolates including some coop-owned and larger names like recchiuti.
I didn't see Richart but they had Vosges and wow, the markup is incredible! A 3oz bar was over $8! You can get the same flavors at Whole Foods for between $6-7 depending on the flavor or at Canyon market for $5.99. So Chocolate Covered charges you 12-20% more on top of the markup that the other places are already charging. So yay for small, local businesses, boo for small business markups. And there were no samples offered like some of the other reviewers mentioned.
LADIES! I GET IT NOW!
I have seen the light (and dark)! Why it took so long, I don't know. I've lived around the corner from Chocolate Covered for years, and only set foot inside last week. My taste runs more the savory than the sweet. CC had about every variety from nearly every continent with any seasoning, salt, or infusible legal substance imaginable.
After several samples of "feel the burn" chocolate with chili, burnt caramel and a spectrum of sea salts, 24th St. looked different, somehow. Everyone looked better, happier, HOTTER. Did the temperature just go up? Why do I have the sudden urge to drop my panties? This I must research.
According to http://thinkquest.com, Chocolate has a funny effect on human's nervous system. Chocolate contains chemicals that trigger the production of opioids. Opioids dull the pain and increase the feeling of well-being.
Also, chocolate contains a brain neurotransmitter called -phenylethylamine. Studies have shown that people in love have unusually high amount of -phenylethylamine. It has the effect of high-energy and chocolate therefore, produces similar effects as being in love.
I turned to look at my wife, who somehow looked the same as before the chocolate.
You can't go any higher when the "hotness" needle is already pegged at eleven.
I eat chocolate all the time. Every day. I don't think I often live through a day without eating at least one piece of chocolate. Today I've eaten one Ghiradelli dark chocolate with mint filling square, multiple Trader Joe's milk chocolate peanut butter malt balls, and am about to try some more of my intense 88% Hachez dark chocolate bar (that one is going to last a while).
...all that personal information just to validate my opinion of this chocolate shop.
This place has an excellent selection of very fine chocolates from all over the place. Guittard from Burlingame (my home town, woot woot!) and assortments from the rest of the country and all over the world.
AND they have a fun array of boxes covered with photographs of San Francisco street signs, which make for sweet gift boxes.
Minus one star only because the shop is pretty expensive and I resent that I couldn't buy more than I did.
Chocolate Covered has some funky tins and some awesome chocolate. This little store has been around for ages, and I forget it's there most of the time. But when I walk by and happen to have a craving for chocolate, I take a quick side step into this cute, independently owned store.
All of the chocolates here are packaged into little bags of sweet treats. They offer pretty much every variety in every form under the sun, and boy, do they know their stuff. They have an answer to any question you have about candy, guaranteed.
The person who helped me pointed me in the right direction and helped me choose exactly what I didn't know I was craving...which was pretty much one of each.
This store may be dangerous to your waistline. BEWARE.
They have free samples. Free chocolate samples. Hazzah! Oh joy upon joy, where have you been in my life? The owner is some sort of chocolate swami, who knows all coco. I will climb the chocolatey mountain to learn on the chocolatey alter of chocolately goodness. Just give me some chocolate for nurishment along the way...and hark, for they have goobers and goobers of chocolate, and harky hark, for it is goodly and occassionally strange, and yes indeed, they have your bacon chocolate that you haven't been able to find and people won't shut up about so you can try it....
Plus, they have really cool lunch pails, that I only wish I had a reason to buy.
CC loves CC!
This shop run by super sweet and cool hippies rocks my world. If you're overwhelmed by the hundreds of different chocolates, take home these 3 guaranteed to satisfy your sweet and salty cravings:
1. Mo's Bacon Bar by Vosges Haut Chocolat- a deep milk chocolate with bits of applewood smoked bacon and a sprinkling of alder wood smoked salt
2. CC Almond and chocolate covered toffee
3. CC Powdered sugar and chocolate covered almonds
They have lots of chocolate available to sample, but trust me on the three I mentioned. You'll see why the bacon bar the new breakfast of champions!
The proprietor of Chocolate Covered is a delightful pillar of local flavor, and the shop is filled with the most elite echelons of artisanal chocolate in myriad varieties. Also, this is the place to go if you're one of those people who holds up the line at Peet's while you contemplate the subtle differences between a Columbian bean and an Ethiopian bean, because lucky for you, elitist prick, chocolate beans afford one the same opportunity for pretentious differentiation of flavor compounds between regional bean varietals. My favorite is the Venezuelan. Naturally sweet and a little spicy.
But really, the thing I love most and hold so dear about this delightful shop is the picture printed tin boxes. Ordinarily, I am anti-tchotchke, but these tins are special because they feature San Francisco street signs. Which may seem trite, but the owner makes several boxes featuring the more little-known and obscure streets which are my own personal area of expertise. Five stars.
The very best chocolates from all over the world!
there is every thing from chili chocolates from New Mexico, to the most incredible Caramel you have ever had- with Grey sea salt!
there is plenty for vegan choco-holics and fair trade, organic. a wide variety of high cocoa content chocolates- many 100% bars.
something for every one.
There is a white chocolate with cinnamon and chili that will change your life FOREVER! Jack, who owns the place is an awesome guy- he makes handmade Cyano-type tins.
it is a rare form of old photography- its a beautiful blue color- he will make custom (your photo) boxes (either wood or tin) with Japanese paper on the sides. it is worth a trip across town to visit this store! Open every day!
we are hoping that he gets in Vegan marshmallow products, but even still Chocolate Covered gets 5 stars! this place ROCKS!
This place is super cool!
Lots of awesome high end chocolate in a variety of hard to find flavors. ALSO a fun variety of kids lunch boxes (lots and lots of them) and tins decorated with images of San Francisco street signs.
great for fun gift ideas and for chocolate lovers.
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