11.29.05
bon bon
Recently I had the good fortune to visit once again a great chocolate store in Chicago named bon bon. I highly recommend it to everyone. They have an extensive collection of chocolates with the most unimaginable and interesting combinations of spices, from chili to anise to cardamom to green tea leaves. And they look amazing. If you do go, you absolutely have to try their hot chocolates, made by directly melting the same couverture used for their chocolates, optionally adding a lot of spices.
This is what they have to say for themselves:
Run by a free-spirited mother-and-daughter team, ‘bon bon’ elevates the art of chocolate to new levels. Fusing unexpected flavors like rose petals, Chai tea and Ancho chili with chocolate, and then transforming them into distinctive designs such as King Tut, Buddha and the Kama Sutra, Bon Bon has definitely set itself apart from all other chocolate shops.
Later
Sameer said,
November 30, 2005 at 4:12 pm
If you go to New York you should try the 5th Avenue Chocolatiere. (actually on Madison Ave and not on 5th). They have amazing truffles. You get them from http://www.1800chocolate.net/
Madison said,
January 25, 2006 at 11:19 pm
Aww, you are too sweet. Thank you for plugging us. We’re ecstatic that so many people have savoured our chocolates and written about them.
-Madison