Sara Hohn – Food… Brooklyn & Beyond

There’s something mildly nauseating about the overstuffed drugstore candy aisles this time of year. If the five-pound bag of Hershey’s Miniatures doesn’t satisfy you (I’ve picked out all the good ones anyway), we’ve compiled a selection of Brooklyn chocolate makers and noteworthy purveyors. From new wave to traditional to kosher, it’s better to gorge on the good stuff.

Bierkraft
191 Fith Avenue
In addition to the extraordinary beer and cheese, Bierkraft has a fine chocolate selection. Read about our visit.

Blue Apron Foods
814 Union Street and 438 Seventh Avenue
A Park Slope specialty food store with Jacques Torres chocolate. The Kitchen has a nice writeup.

Brooklyn Chocolate and Cocoa Company
68 Greenpoint Avenue
Selling molded chocolates, mousse, bars and cocoa mixes, their chocolate collections include unique flavors like violet, passionfruit, saffron, bergamot and more.

Cary Mo Chocolates
available at Stinky
Owner Cary M Becraft was formerly a pastry chef at Brooklyn’s River Cafe. She started making and selling chocolate boxes in 2000.

Cocoa Bar
228 Seventh Avenue
Cocoa Bar offers Leonidas chocolate, signature chocolate bars and its own line of organic
chocolate truffles.

Jacques Torres
66 Water Street
It’s almost hot chocolate time again!

Jinil
1371 Coney Island Avenue
Jinil’s specialty is custom chocolates with over 1,000 molds in stock. You can order things
like a customized baseball mitt or a life-sized backgammon set made out of your choice of
chocolate.

JoMart Chocolates
2917 Avenue R
Since 1946, JoMart has been celebrating the good things in life. Their marshmallows are
legendary.

Oh! Nuts
1503 Avenue J and 1305 50th Street
Oh! Nuts sells gift platters and bulk nuts, dried fruit, candy, chocolate and coffee by the
pound.

Sahadi’s
187 Atlantic Avenue
A favorite for their nuts, olives, cheese and prepared foods, Sahadi’s offers bulk chocolate for cooking and delicious chocolate-covered treats.

Sweet Melissa
276 Court Street
Best known for their insanely good pastries. Read the report from Lovescool.

The Chocolate Room
86 Fifth Avenue
This chocolate boutique and dessert cafe sells chocolates by Fritz Knipschildt in beautiful
handmade paper boxes.

Wrapper’s Delight
152 Fifth Avenue
We read in Brownstoner comments that this Park Slope standby was opening up a new location in Ditmas Park. We sure hope so!

Originally posted on Until Monday: Brooklyn