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Chocolate and Confectionery Manufacturing

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Chocolatier Goodness

    Scott Beale/Laughing Squid​Chocolate Deconstructed: A TCHO Chocolatier Where:18 Reasons, 593 Guerrero (at 18th St.) When: Wed., May 18, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $35; purchase via Brown Paper Tickets The rundown: Chocolate used to be a hell of a lot more mysterious, back before single-source estate ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Bittersweet's Cacao Counseling

    Choco-diva Medrich.​Careers in Chocolate Where: San Francisco Art Institute's Studio 18, 800 Chestnut (at Jones) When: Sun., Jan. 23, 4-5:30 p.m Cost: Free, but an RSVP is required; e-mail david@bittersweetcafe.com The rundown: Oakland's Bittersweet Cafe is organizing the coolest college c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Mars Fights Hershey With New Pure Dark Pop-Up

    Jonathan Kauffman​Wednesday sees the launch of a pop-up store in Cow Hollow promoting a line of artisanal-looking chocolates that SFoodie has never encountered before: Pure Dark. Today, SFoodie was sent a press packet containing a thick 70 percent cocoa "slab" whose edges were marked with the tine ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Charles Chocolates Operates Virtual Goodie Factories for Online Game

    PlayFirst via SFGateThe chocolate-making game's been averaging 800,000 plays a month.​Want to make your own Charles Chocolates creations? There's a video game called Chocolatier: Sweet Society for that. Charles Chocolates has teamed up with social networking game company PlayFirst for this ven ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Where Can I Buy Locally Made Chocolate In a Post-Scharffen Berger World?

    Who cares if Scharffen Berger left town when we have E. Guittard?​A question came in from D.F. this week:I used to buy Scharffen Berger chocolate, but now that Hershey bought out the company and left Berkeley, I don't know where to buy local chocolate. I've been buying bags of Guittard chips at th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Schoggi Pairs Tea with Chocolate For a Good Cause

    yuichi.sakuraba/FlickrThe class, at the S.F. shop of Swiss chocolate maker Schoggi, benefits a kids' and families' nonprofit.​Looking to upgrade your afternoon tea session to something a bit more luxe? A class tomorrow night at Swiss chocolate maker Schoggi near Union Square aims to break down ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Work Break: June Taylor Stop-Action Spot

    SFoodie was hanging out with some friends this weekend when a question about June Taylor Jams came up. We visited the Berkeley jam maker's site and stumbled on this Michel Gondry-like short animated by Kyle Small and Justin Plummer III in 2007. We've watched it several times now, completely charmed. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Sweet Beat: East Bay Chocolatier Seeks to Boost Both Oakland and Jamaica

    M. LaddOakland Chococlate Co. sources beans from Jamaican farmers.​Utilizing space at Tanya Holland's Brown Sugar Kitchen, Oakland City Senior Council Member Nancy Nadel started out doing what she describes as bean to bar to bonbon. Today, Nadel calls herself cacaofevier and chocolatier (not t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Sweet Beat: BonBonBar's Pumpkin Pie Bar

    T. Palmer​After moving back to the Bay Area from Los Angeles, Nina Wanat relaunched her confections company BonBonBar in October. Wanat is a graduate of CIA's baking and pastry program in Napa, a course she switched to after attending law school at U.C. Davis and being tempted into the culinary wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    Five Local Ways to Pump(kin) it Up

    T. PalmerSee's Candies' marshmallow Jack-O-Lantern.​San Francisco's few pumpkin patches are open for business, Half Moon Bay's annual World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off is set for October 12, and the Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival will follow on October 17-18. Yes, folks, it's definite ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    New Chocolate Shop Opening in Former Joseph Schmidt Space

    dixiehu/FlickrThe Schmidt store in the Castro shut down last spring.​Dig this chocolate goss: A new chocolate shop is opening in the shuttered 16th Street retail store that was the original home of Joseph Schmidt. Schmidt (and Scharffen Berger) parent Hershey Co. closed the shop last spring; t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    S.F. Landlord Paranoid About Chocolate Goodness

    Laszlo Toth/laughingsquid.com​SFist has kindly alerted us to a rather unsavory conspiracy theory brewing on Nob Hill. In a guest post at Laughing Squid, author Laszlo Toth reports on a note posted to the door of 1519 Polk Street, a former retail location of See's Candies."Your ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Camel Milk Chocolates? You Might Soon be Able to Score Some in Noe Valley

    A Noe Valley shop hopes to be among the first U.S. retailers to sell chocolate bars made with camel milk. Jack Epstein, owner of Chocolate Covered (4069 24th St. at Castro), told SFoodie he only recently found out about the camel milk chocolate bars, manufactured by Dubai-based chocolatier Al Nass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2009

    Inside a Happy Habit: A Factory Tour of See's Candies

    Janine Kahn Our tour guide, Jim Paine."We have so much going on here that you really need to go through everything four or five times to remember it all!" warned Jim Paine, longtime production manager at See's Candies' headquarters in South San Francisco.Paine probably didn't intend  ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Bay Area Bites from the Fancy Food Show: NewTree's Piment Alpha Chocolate Bar

    NewTree, a Belgian chocolatier with its American outpost in San Anselmo, introduced its new line of Alpha chocolate bars at the Fancy Food Show. Here's a sweeter way to get your omega 3 fatty acids (mostly through the inclusion of flax seeds) without having to go the route of smelly fish oil. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Video: Sweet Saturday at CocoaBella

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2008

    Titty Titty Bon Bons Support Fight Against Breast Cancer

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 9, 2008

    Tasty Bites

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2008

    EEF's 17th Birthday Bash At 111 Minna

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2007

    Talk Nerdy To Me: Wired Founder Launches Chocolate Company

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2007

    Chuck Siegel of Charles Chocolates and his 6700 Square Foot Candy Kingdom

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2007

    Chuck Siegel of Charles Chocolates and his 6700 Square Foot Candy Kingdom

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Hot Fudge Sundae

    Ghirardelli Chocolate Manufactory

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best New Chocolate Treat

    Gracie's Chocolate Nipples

  • Calendar

    June 18, 2003

    Totally Well

    Lift those bags

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Best Éclairs

    Moscow and Tbilisi Bakery Store

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 17, 2000

    Best Cafe Mocha

    Alfred Schilling Chocolate, Pastry & Restaurant

  • Dining

    September 25, 1996

    Dish

    Alfred Schilling Chocolate, Pastry & Restaurant

  • Dining

    March 29, 1995

    Dish

    Alfred Schilling Chocolate, Pastry & Restaurant

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