Although scientists now suspect that chocolate helps to prevent heart attacks, simply gazing at the selection of more than 200 different truffles from all over the world at CocoaBella Chocolates can be heart-stopping. “We go through [each chocolatier’s] line and bring back the best of what they do,” says Michael Freeman, the owner of the Cow Hollow shop (with a new, consistently mobbed, second location in the Westfield SF Centre). If forced to pick, we’d choose Michel Cluizel’s dark chocolate with Earl Grey tea from France; a subtle interpretation of bananas Foster by Christopher Elbow (a talent based in Kansas City, of all places); and what Freeman says is his best-kept secret (and a rare non-truffle): from Italy, Maglio’s hefty, gold-foil-wrapped, smooth-as-silk milk-chocolate bar with hazelnuts. Ah, love.
CocoaBella Chocolates 2102 Union St., 415-931-6213
Although scientists now suspect that chocolate helps to prevent heart attacks, simply gazing at the selection of more than 200 different truffles from all over the world at CocoaBella Chocolates can be heart-stopping. “We go through [each chocolatier’s] line and bring back the best of what they do,” says Michael Freeman, the owner of the Cow Hollow shop (with a new, consistently mobbed, second location in the Westfield SF Centre). If forced to pick, we’d choose Michel Cluizel’s dark chocolate with Earl Grey tea from France; a subtle interpretation of bananas Foster by Christopher Elbow (a talent based in Kansas City, of all places); and what Freeman says is his best-kept secret (and a rare non-truffle): from Italy, Maglio’s hefty, gold-foil-wrapped, smooth-as-silk milk-chocolate bar with hazelnuts. Ah, love.
CocoaBella Chocolates 2102 Union St., 415-931-6213
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