This charming little shop is every Noe Valleyan's go-to spot for sweet tooth-soothing, featuring probably the largest selection in town of locally made chocolate. Read more.
This is a place to custom-assemble the highest-class variety box of chocolate you can imagine (such boxes start at $45), with choices from traditional picks like truffles to wackadoo options. Read more.
Dandelion is known for their uniquely smooth and nuanced-in-flavor chocolate — seekers of wacky flavored, super sweet stuff should look elsewhere. Read more.
This choc spot makes seriously beautiful chocolates. These polished, colorful, seemingly inedible little wonders are also very delicious, and come in flavors like Venezuelan Spice, Lavender, and more Read more.
Yes, you've had their squares everywhere, but Ghirardelli still represents some of the finest in chocolate-making around the world, so be thankful they're ours.
Features a bunch of nice local and/or artisanal chocolate products. There's also plenty of other stuff, like pate de fruits, malted milk balls, and hard candy, and prices aren't bad either.
Cake-soft bread pudding at this Tenderloin sweet spot is no secret and it's also time to try cult favorite caramels like the Original Hooker, wrapped in dark chocolate and topped with sea salt.
They specialize in house-made caramels, toffee, and marshmallows, which make for great gifts in themselves. But they've also got macarons, old-fashioned wrapped candy, and plenty of other stuff.
You can taste Michael Recchiuti's passion for the farmer's market when you bite into any one of his chocolates. It's close to the Recchiuti outpost that he plucks inspiration and ingredients.
It's weird to describe a specific candy manufacturer as creating "comfort food" — after all, isn't all candy comfort food in a sense?
TCHO's products, from a TCHOtella Nutella take off to chocolates that come in a pillbox as "therapy," are widely available and used in just about every high end San Francisco sweet.
