Treat your sweetie (or yourself) to a chocolate tour of Brooklyn this Valentine’s Day
This Valentine’s Day, leave the heart-shaped candy box at Duane Reade and enjoy locally-made chocolate instead. Explore Brooklyn released their “Brooklyn Chocolate Trail Map” this month with 12 must-eat delicious destinations in the borough. The list includes chocolatiers, factories and tasting rooms. Follow the chocolate trail and taste-test your way through Greenpoint, DUMBO, Williamsburg and Downtown Brooklyn. What could be sweeter?
This tour is made for all different types of chocolate tastebuds. At Raaka Chocolate and Fine & Raw, sample chocolate that starts out as a minimally-processed cocoa bean. Both places are even offering behind-the-scenes tours of the “bean-to-bar” process.
Favorite chocolatiers like Li-Lac Chocolates, JoMart and Liddabit Sweets offer up unique chocolate-covered creations, including 3D-art and chocolate covered fruit and snacks. And head to Cacao Market and Chocolate Works for more traditional chocolate gifts, like truffles and heart-shaped candies. Be sure to personalize your chocolate gifts with pretty wrapping, prints and sweet messages.
1. Chocolicious
171 Division Avenue
2. Cacao Market by MarieBelle
67 Guernsey Street
3. Fine & Raw
288 Seigel Street
4. Jacques Torres
66 Water Street
5. Chocolate Works
110 Montague Street
6. The Chocolate Room
51 Fifth Avenue
7. Raaka
64 Seabring Street
8. Cacao Prieto
218 Conover Street
9. Tumbador Chocolates
343 Fourth Street
10. Li-Lac Chocolates
68 35th Street
11. JoMart Chocolates
2917 Avenue R
12. Liddabit Sweets
2917 Avenue R
For those too full to take the subway to each chocolate haven, the Chocolate Bus Tour of Brooklyn gives tours of four chocolatiers, Jacques Torres Chocolates, the Chocolate Room, Raaka Chocolate and LI-Lac Chocolates, with a history lesson along the way. The nearly five-hour tour costs $50 for adults and $40 for children under 12 years old.
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