Valentine's Day Chocolate Candy - The Best is _________
I'd like to know your favorites. I love chocolate, but Godiva is the best quality I've had and I know there are better out there. What chocolate candy would YOU like to receive as a gift?
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28 Comments:
Maison du chocolat...
tracyw at 11:13AM on 02/02/08
Sees Candy, please!
StripeyChef at 11:38AM on 02/02/08
Christopher Norman, especially basil-apricot truffle
zapatista at 2:05PM on 02/02/08
Anything from Ghirrardelli, See's (except for the maple stuff), or (a new favorite), Chi for Chocolate, a small chocolate boutique here in San Diego.
beth1 at 2:10PM on 02/02/08
Richart chocolates. Their chocolates have interesting flavours that work, are a lovely and soothing minimalist shape, and come packaged in low-key and elegant white boxes. Some of my favourites have been those with chestnut, saffron, and tobacco as elements.
If you're curious and in or close to NYC, they have--or at least DID, the last time I visited a few months ago, seems as if each time I go back another favourite place is gone--a shop on the north side of 55th Street, between 5th and Madison Avenues.
mongoose at 2:32PM on 02/02/08
Valrhona is by far my favorite commercially available chocolate.
Otherwise, Joy Lyn's Candies in Paradise, California, makes awesome, handcrafted stuff. Their old fashioned cherry cordials are to die for, but they only make them a couple times a year. They ship all over the U.S.
LoCo at 2:40PM on 02/02/08
Low end - plain Hershey's kisses or M&M's - what can I say, it's the unevolved adolescent in me
For the sophistocated big girl - anything from Vosges or Schokolad ,or a Zang bar from Zingerman's
frederika at 2:43PM on 02/02/08
I'm pretty high maintence when it comes to chocolates...the best I've tasted is from a local chocolatier. I like dark chocolates that are not combined with any exotic flavors. I like to stop by their shop to buy one or two pieces every now & then:)
JEP at 4:28PM on 02/02/08
I know I'm in the minority but I really love Godiva, even though it's become cliche. There's another artisan chocatier from the west coast, Moonstruck, that's really great too. Gave those away at my company Christmas party last year.
I love dark chocolate that melts slowly in the mouth. I didn't like it when I was a kid but developed a taste for it as an adult.
chiff0nade at 5:31PM on 02/02/08
I love all the Vosges chocolates. Especially the ones with a touch of salt.
http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/
eatmyfood at 5:51PM on 02/02/08
i love scharffenberger milk chocolate.
cybercita at 9:04PM on 02/02/08
hey eatmyfood
Better one or better two - Black Pearl or Red Fire? Just got a sample of Mo's Bacon at Zingerman's Deli and it is so strange and wonderful I just can't decide if I really want to buy one though.
frederika at 9:09PM on 02/02/08
Scharffenberger's Nibby Bar changed my world for the blissful, chocolatey, crunchy better. Anything from La Maison du Chocolat. I love strange flavors and combinations, even though eating too much chocolate makes my digestive system angry.
Christina at 9:13PM on 02/02/08
Cute story -
Last year, my valentine came into work to give me some Valentine's treats. We had had this conversation that went, "oh, can you believe people like Russell Stover chocolate." So I'm at work, and he hands me this box of Russell Stovers! But I opened it and it had all sorts of Dagoba and Theo chocolate. So sweet! (cheesy, I know)
MMM Theo chocolate. I definitely wouldn't turn down Amano either.
Littlebluesiren at 11:42PM on 02/02/08
See's Chocolates get my vote. Everything they make is excellent but their mixed truffles are wonderful. We have See's shops here in the west but we often go to their web site to send chocolates to friends and family back east. Their customer service and shipping rate very high with us.
kathyvegas at 11:43PM on 02/02/08
a good bar or dark chocolate from Ghiradelli preferably their twilight espresso but my S.O. prefers milk chocolate so this years treat is ghiradelli milk brushed over homemade bananna chips (he adore choc and nanner together)
huney_bumper at 9:50AM on 02/03/08
My new favorite is Green & Black's ginger in dark chocolate. I love the Vosges Red Fire, mmmmm, have only recently seen them here in Canada. Dolfin is also delicious - they have one with cumin that is amazing, or lemon peel, or cinnamon.
Red Fire would be a nice suggestive V-Day gift, when you think about it.
wellred at 11:43AM on 02/03/08
Godiva is the best.
When I lived on St. Thomas, USVI, that was the only chocolate that we were able to buy (darn).
On Valentines day my roomie and I had about 5 boxes from guys and we laid on our couches and had them inbetween us while we watched TV (poor us).
BUT I HATE THOSE VALENTINE HEART CANDIES THAT TASTE LIKE CHALK!!!
Hunnyoil at 10:49PM on 02/03/08
Quality Street Chocolates. Made by Nestle, sold in the UK. Not easy to find, but SOOOO good!
Tammy
Boston Food & Whine
tschuetz at 10:27AM on 02/04/08
So my choices are NYC-centric, but aside from Godiva, the best chocolate I've ever tasted has come from Jacques Torres in DUMBO and Li-Lac, in the West Village. I crave these chocolates after one taste, like crack (or so I've heard).
The good news for all you non-NYCers is that they both deliver!
savecara at 11:11AM on 02/04/08
Baci from Perugina.
MadelynRodriguez at 3:49PM on 02/04/08
I enjoy searching for different types of dark chocolates. Over the years I've found some great ones. There were some phenomenal ones I found in a small village in France and they had so many different herbs, pepper and exotic flavors. I also found amazing chocolates while on a 6 hour chocolate tour of Paris. So many chocolates and they were soooo heavenly. But since I can't remember their names or tell you how to get them, here are a few dark chocolates that I've recently discovered that are causing parties among my taste buds:
Dark chocolate bar made by New Tree, a Belgium chocolatier (www.newtree.com). It is truly a chocolate to be savoured and I find it at my local Jewel food store.
Dark Spicy Aztec bar that's made by Lake Champlain Chocolates (www.lakechamplainchocolates.com). It has cayenne, pumpkin seeds, and cinnamon. It's an amazing flavor combination.
I've also been enjoying a variety of chocolates from Trader Joe's including a very petite box of mini gourmet chocolates. On Valentine's Day we're having a girls luncheon, and I plan to bring those. Yum!
Jelena at 4:05PM on 02/04/08
Christopher Elbow.
ExpatChef at 4:16PM on 02/04/08
My faves are Theo and Li-Lac (a local NYC variety).
But let's face it, my sweetie could show up with a handful of peanut M&Ms and I'd be all over it... and him... :)
CookiePie at 4:16PM on 02/04/08
Another excellent, relatively inexpensive but somewhat high-end Swiss chocolate is Lindt. It was one of my first "real" chocolate discoveries back in high school, and seldom disappoints. It's widely available, even in supermarkets, and it's at least as tasty as Ghirardelli's if not more so. And it always seems to do well in blind taste tests.
I've always felt Godiva was a bit overrated. It seems to have some kind of weird aftertaste for me. When I found out its been owned for the past 40-some-odd years by the Campbell Soup Company, it sort of reinforced that perception. Fans of Godiva should be advised that the FTC just approved Campbell's sale of Godiva to a Turkish company...
LoCo at 4:26PM on 02/04/08
Mrs. Fields.
1stmakearoux at 5:19PM on 02/04/08
Leonidas has some lovely ones. One of the niftiest gifts of chocolate I've received was a box of Choxie from Target -- it was a sampler with pieces of chocolate using cocoa beans from different countries. The best was definitely the 71% from Ecuador. Amazingly good!
Skythe at 11:15PM on 02/04/08
I'm looking for something to send to my daughters and granddaughter and I've checked out many of your favorites. Thanks!
PerkyMac at 9:21AM on 02/06/08