Author Archives: Judith Lewis
My Visit to Matcha Chocolat & Sneak Peek at New Chocolates
I live not too far from some of the most beautiful locations. Where I live isn’t so great but everywhere else is, and that is true of the Matcha Chocolat production kitchen. The production kitchen at Matcha is set within ...
Haagen Dazs Sweet Sensations Ice Cream
I was lucky enough to be part of the Haagen Dazs tasting club. Not only does this mean I can pop in to the Leicester Square location and get the VIP treatment (one free ice cream per day) but it ...
Mast Brothers Crown Maple Review
Mast Brothers in Brooklyn New York are one of a few new craft or artisan chocolate makers who are emerging in the US and trying to help pull the US palette out from the Hershey’s gutter to new heights of ...
Hotel Chocolat Rabot Estate 66% Review
[updated with corrected information] The Rabot Estate that Hotel Chocolate runs is a chocolate success story. Taking trees of varying strains and creating a new one, Hotel Chocolat have really tried hard to not only create excellence in mass market ...
Melt Wild Bolivian Bar 68% Review
This 68% Bolivian cacao bar is a bit of a conundrum to me. It is interesting to me that both this and the Felchlin cacao is 68% and I don’t know that Melt is a bean to bar company. I ...
Madecasse Madagascar 75% Review
I stumbled across Madecasse, I think, in SF. I believe I picked it up at Fog City News though it could have been Cocoa Bella as I bought hundreds of dollars in bars from both and can’t remember what I ...
A Visit to BlueBasil Brownies
It was a frosty day when I went to BlueBasil Brownies. The whole world had been turned a beautiful pristine white. It was like something off a Christmas card. The whole world was covered in a beautiful frost. The farm ...
Amelia Rope Dark Chocolate with Whole Coffee Beans Review
This is the second of the Amelia Rope chocolate bars that I received from the woman herself and this time it was a strongly flavoured bar. I, of course, had no idea how strongly flavoured until I bit into it ...
Hotel Chocolat Purist Sambirano Valley 66% Review
Hotel Chocolat walked away with a number of awards from the Academy of Chocolate and despite staff being clueless about the actual awarded bars, it demonstrates, I feel, the fact that they are doing a lot of things right in ...
