Hershey's you are really dead to me now

[Andrew]

Bay Area residents should try Charles Chocolates.

[Alex]

I work in the same building as the Charles Chocolates factory. I don't like dark chocolate (and at $60-$80/pound I don't like milk chocolate enough to try their limited selection) so I've never had it but others here say it is pretty good.

They don't actually make their own chocolate though, so if that matters to you they are just re-purposing quality chocolate made by others (including, for now anyway Sharffen Berger).

[Not Afraid]

I wonder how a Bacon S'More would taste with Vosges Bacon Chocolate?

[SzczerbiakManiac]

yummy, I'll bet

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

I work two blocks from Sharffen Berger.

Originally Posted by Alex

I work in the same building as the Charles Chocolates factory. I don't like dark chocolate (and at $60-$80/pound I don't like milk chocolate enough to try their limited selection) so I've never had it but others here say it is pretty good.

You apparently work in the chocolate district?

[Alex]

Charles Chocolates has only been here about 18 months so it is new. But yes, when the chocolate makers moved out of San Francisco (Ghirardelli's actual working plant is in San Leandro and all of the tourists just go to San Francisco) a lot of them took up in the industrial parts of the East Bay including Emeryville (there are a lot of industrial and co-op kitchen places here as well and those tend to spawn small businesses in the same neighborhood) and the southern part of Berkeley. But even here most of them have been gentrified out.

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Alex

But yes, when the chocolate makers moved out of San Francisco (Ghirardelli's actual working plant is in San Leandro and all of the tourists just go to San Francisco) .

Stupid tourists

Reminds me of the Dole field in HI......

Forget the chocolate, I'm still waiting for the Mother's Animal Cookies to come back.....

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by RStar

Stupid tourists

I'm one of them: whenever I visit the City, I always go there. But mainly because they tend to have a really good selection. There used to be a great Mexican restaurant right above Ghirardelli's, but I don't know if they are still there (my memory on the restaurant is more than 10 years old, so I doubt that it is the same).

But I once spent a very pleasant afternoon on their patio drinking margaritas and getting very hammered.

[Alex]

Unless things have changed since the initial announcement in December, Kellogg's bought Mother's Cookies' assets and plans to continue the frosted animal cookies.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Alex

Unless things have changed since the initial announcement in December, Kellogg's bought Mother's Cookies' assets and plans to continue the frosted animal cookies.

I was curious, so I started doing a little digging and came across this blog post:

Many of you have been asking about the future of Mother's cookies, so we contacted Kellogg's with your questions. In our inbox from a Kellogg's spokesperson today:

Kellogg Company plans on reintroducing many of Mother's Cookies back into stores on the West coast by June, 2009. While we may not have all varieties of Mother's Cookies available at that time, we are working on some of your favorites like Mother's Circus Animals, Mother's Iced Oatmeal cookies, Mother's Parade Animal cookies, Mother's Chocolate Chip, Mother's Coconut Cocadas, Mother's Macaroons, Mother's Taffy Sandwich cookies, Mother's English Tea cookies, Mother's Double Fudge Sandwich cookies, Mother's Vanilla Crème Sandwich cookies, and Mother's Iced Lemon cookies.