Chocolate Bar
Chocolate Bar does not sell alcoholic beverages. For real they just sell chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate. Wilford-Brimley-losing-an-arm-from-diabetes lots. And, after cake, chocolate is my second favorite food so I am pretty stoked to find this place.
Chocolate, when done well, is the food of kings, and was in fact originally eaten by Aztec kings. Chocolate Bar honors the royal heritage of the simple cacao bean in all its myriad forms. Truffles, bon bons, chocolate bars, cocoas, brownies, and cookies. My fingers twitch just thinking about it. You can even get an egg cream which isn’t that hard to come by but is always nice to have. Couple this feast with some clean design and you’re almost to the door of the shop.
The part that I like the most, and the real reason I would even give away a secret as good as Chocolate Bar, is the Artist Bar set. If you think it’s easy for me to see superb art, design, and chocolate all wrapped into one and not hop the next flight to JFK you are fucking crazy, man. And the price aint bad either. It’s not Godiva bad anyway. Not that I have anything against Godiva, those delicious bastards.
But for $25 you can get 10 bars of the finest chocolate wrapped in the artworks of 10 of the finest artists. At the risk of making a pun: How fucking sweet is that?! Very sweet indeed.
The set features dark chocolate with almonds (Gary Baseman), ChocoMinty (David Horvath), Crispy Rice (Sun Min Kim), Dark Chocolate (Rolito), Dark Caffetto (Nathan Jurevicius), Chocolate Milk (Toy2R), Milk Toffee Crunch (Dalek), Milk Hazelnut (Tim Biskup), Dark Salty Pretzel (Friends with You) and Milk Salty Pretzel (JD Boujnah).
I wouldn’t say no to a set *cough*Valentines*cough*. Excuse me.