First Day Open!

First Day Open!

We opened the factory and retail part of our Valencia St location for the first time today! While we had few hiccups, overall, things when great. Everyone we met was wonderful and we had a great time talking to people about chocolate and showing them our space....
Valencia or Bust!

Valencia or Bust!

It took a little longer than we’d original planned… ok, a lot longer, but we’ve finally moved in to our permanent home at 740 Valencia St! After doing a bunch of planning, we started packing and moving things on Thursday of last week. We took a bunch...
Venezuelan Container

Venezuelan Container

We were pretty nervous when we ordered our first container of beans (from Madagascar). Fortunately, the beans arrived safely and we’ve been loving them. The whole process went so smoothly that we’ve been working on another container of beans, this time...

Wrap Video

As promised, here’s our wrapping machine in action: If you’d like to learn more about chocolate making, take a look at Chocolate 101 in our online store.
Wraptacular Machine

Wraptacular Machine

As Todd mentioned earlier, we recently got a wrapping machine. We’ve been really happy with the paper and foil we use and we weren’t willing to compromise on them just to make wrapping easier. Finding a machine that would work in theory was challenging...