BAY AREA CHOCOLATE and other San Francisco, CA Shopping Tips

You need to bite into the World of Bay Area chocolate! Here's a short list of delicious options.

RoCocoa's Faerie Queene Chocolates
415 Castro St
(415) 252-5814
www.faeriequeene.com

Joseph Schmidt Confections
3489 16th St
(415) 861-8682
www.jschmidtconfections.com

Recchiuti Confections
Available at the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market and fine
gourmet and retail locations locally -- Real Foods,
Whole Foods, Dandelion, Sue Fisher King, Bi-Rite, and
online at www.RecchiutiConfections.com

XOX Truffles
754 Columbus St
(415) 421-4814
Stocks vegan soy truffles!
www.xoxtruffles.com/xox/how_to_order.htm

Teuscher
255 Grant Ave
(415) 398-2700

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What To Buy: California is one of the largest manufacturers of chocolate and chocolate confections in the country. Northern California is home to Nestle, Guittard, Blommer and Scharffen Berger -- four of the 10 companies in the nation that import and roast their own beans.

Joseph Schmidt, the S.F.-based chocolateur, distributes to 3,000 accounts in gourmet shops and major department stores like Macy's, Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue nationwide, plus upscale shops throughout Japan, Canada and the United Kingdom. (Pictured here: Joseph Schmidt inspects his chocolate Transamerica Pyramid.)

Scharffen Berger takes one year to produce what Hershey cranks out in a single day.

Recchiuti distributes to Williams-Sonoma, Red Envelope, Dean and Delucca and Neiman Marcus and many gourmet stores. Awesome chocolate bars, chocolate-covered graham crackers and assortment boxes.


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