MarieBelle Looking Up
A new set of distinctive hand-painted bon bon designs will debut along with the new branch of MarieBelle this Friday.
In New York, the chocolate race uptown from SoHo is on, and Maribel Lieberman is a lap ahead of Jacques Torres. Torres has been making noise about a new location on Amsterdam Avenue for months, but the grand opening won't come before November. Meanwhile, Lieberman (who's also been busy planting cacao trees in her native Honduras and selling Blackberries on the web) will open a branch of her MarieBelle chocolate boutique at 762 Madison Avenue this Friday.
The MarieBelle aesthetic is Latin sass trimmed in Parisian frill, and the brand includes chocolate bon bons in flavors like White Kona Coffee and Caipirinha, tropical fruit caramels, and tins of hot chocolate with matching china cups. The distinctive pastel-colored scenes atop the bon bons are hand-painted, and Lieberman will introduce a new set of designs (featuring slinky women bouncing through the air) to celebrate the new opening.
About the author: Emily Stone, proprietor of Chocolate in Context, is a chocolate enthusiast, itinerant traveler, and a lover of literature who lives in Pittsburgh. She's been a movie reviewer, a reproductive health researcher, and an independent bookstore owner. Her writing has appeared in the magazines Budget Travel, Travel + Leisure, and Time Out New York, as well as on the websites World Hum and Epicurious.
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