Hershey's you are really dead to me now

[Alex]

I work two blocks from Sharffen Berger. So far as I know the factory is all that is closing. The store/cafe will still operate.

However, nobody who works here ever goes there to buy or eat. You can blame us for any continuing closures.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by Alex

I work two blocks from Sharffen Berger. So far as I know the factory is all that is closing. The store/cafe will still operate.

However, nobody who works here ever goes there to buy or eat. You can blame us for any continuing closures.

That's a real shame, they were pretty high quality chocolate. A bit bitter for my taste (even their milk was pretty dark), but still quality.

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

A bit bitter for my taste (even their milk was pretty dark).

I stay away from anything made with dark milk. Scary

[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).

[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?

[Not Afraid]

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

[SzczerbiakManiac]

yummy, I'll bet

[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.