Excellent and maybe a group dinner at cache?

Oh Chocolate! with Bellevue and Seattle stores is also pretty damn good, but not to the caliber of Fran's.

lala

Forget all that, go to New York during the big chocolate show and Jacques Torres etc.

Link to the salon du chocolat

I saw this at Whole Foods the other day and picked one up out of curiosity. Though I posted in this thread a while ago, I hadn't read the recent comments about the Bacon Bar.

Wow! It's really good!

It's also kind of spendy...their price was $6.99. Ouch :( I'll have to find a cheaper place to get another!

i once had this chocolate in Germany that was so incredibly delicious....it came in a darkish red packaging and for the life of me, i can not remember what it was....does anyone have any clue what it could be?

I don't think it gets any cheaper..but if you find a source let me know!

I bought my boyfriend one at the Vosges shop in Chicago for $7, and then saw them later at Whole Foods. It was pretty tasty. Even his 17 year old daughter who saw it and went into a "eww thats gross" diatribe, tasted a piece by accident, and ended up consuming half the bar.

Name-check for Meiji.

Somehow my pack of 28 Meiji Black has become a pack of 14. :eek:

Those 20g blocks are a fine advertisement for Japanese sweets. ^

I did seriously upset Airport Security several years ago. Had on an over-sized raincoat with lots of pockets all over. In those pockets I'd tucked 14 Cadbury bars (had to get one of each flavor), plus some Easter Eggs. What I didn't think of was they were each wrapped in foil.

Even after I took them all out, explaining I was a grandmother on the way home, they insisted on another very thorough wanding.

Romelle

My choice when main-lining chocolate is those big Ghardelli chunks one can buy very reasonably at Trader Joe's.

Chocolate Fix
 

How do you like your chocolate fix?

Do you go for;
Premium chocolate
Midmarket chocolate
Mass market basic chocolate
Chocolate with flavouring (orange, mint, sea salt etc)
Chocolate covering a biscuit/wafer


Do you have the same kind of chocolate each time or does your chocolate fix vary by time of day or mood?

Is there a chocolate you can't bear? I can't stand very dark or bitter chocolate. I just don't see the point of it.

When is your next fix?

Annoyingly, I love dark chocolate, but it's an incredibly effective migraine trigger (and for particularly nasty migraines, too - last time I had some of this, I managed to get lost a couple hundred yards from home.

Otherwise, I'm flexible. I love:

• G&B Maya Gold or Butterscotch
• Lindt Excellence Chilli
• Hotel Chocolat* Billionaire's Shortbread (and frankly, half the other things they do)
• Proper French profiteroles - filled with ice cream and covered in a thick, hot, dark chocolate sauce (which you save some bread to dip in too)
• The various chocolate spreads at Le Pain Quotidien
• M&S Belgian Chocolate Flapjack
• An obscure cardamom-flavoured chocolate that I've never found again

Next fix? There's some Waitrose Millionaire's Shortbread with my name on it at home...

* dangerous, as I have their outlet shop not too far from me...

I fell in love with very dark chocolate when I spent four months in Roma.

The darker the better.

I don't want chocolate very often, I have a savory, not a sweet, tooth.

But when I do want chocolate, it is generally dark and ideally involves some caramel. I will also indulge in an English chocolate bar once every few months (Lion Bar, Toffee Crisp, Malteasers, Cadbury's caramel or fruit & nut, etc)

I also have a soft spot for dark chocolate covered orange peel or cherries, Charbonnel & Walker Rose & Violet creams, Quality Street (but only at Christmas) and Bendicks Bittermints (the latter are so very delicious and worth trying if you get the chance!)

I HATE chocolate with chilli, chocolate with salt, and caramel with salt - sweet should be sweet, end of!

I really like G&Bs chocolate with sea salt in it. It's the right mix of sweet and salty.

There is a baker on Greys Inn Road, London that does a chocolate salted caramel brownie which is divine.

Otherwise I'm a purist and go for a pure chocolate bar. My favourite being G&Bs milk chocolate with a higher cocoa content than standard.

i was impressed by vahlrona hot chocolate recently

although there is a chocolate shop in venice that makes hot chocolate by melting chocolate, with zero milk

i agree re unadulterated, i actually go as far as not liking a lot of european desserts. while i can have expensive taste for food and beverage, and i appreciate a good pastry chef in terms of preparation, for dessert i am really a plain chocolate, vanilla, lemon person. pretty much only other flavors when gelato/sorbetto.

I don't eat chocolate that often, so I will enjoy whatever I can find or whatever is presented to me.

I love dark chocolate. Love it with caramel, with mint, with sea salt, or plain. Had a delist wasabi chocolate in Belgium. Cinnamon chocolate is great too. Mm chocolate. More please