Complete Chocolate Lover’s Guide for the San Francisco Bay Area

Ora Cacao, formerly Firefly Chocolate

Firefly Chocolate was the first bean-to-bar chocolate maker in Sonoma County and the first maker to use nuts from California Bay Laurel trees in chocolate

Published 2 December, 2016

From the ground up

Sometimes you just gotta do everything yourself

Published 27 January, 2015

Life after chocolate

What does a successful, award-winning chocolatier do after she decides to stop selling chocolates?

Published 20 December, 2014

New Tree on the block

Nutritious NewTree chocolates in a sustainable café make trips to downtown SF pretty sweet

Published 12 June, 2012

Mad for plaid

More proof that everything’s better with chocolate on it

Published 13 April, 2012

Not sold in stores!

Wall-to-wall chocolate sounds like heaven, but you’d better pace yourself

Published 31 March, 2010

Vice is nice

In that gray area of naughty but nice, Vice Chocolates is a stand-out.

Published 1 March, 2010

How unusual: Kimchi chocolate

Kimchi is so Korean, they put it in souvenir chocolate for remembering your trip — or gifting to an adventurous/unlucky soul

Published 19 November, 2009