San Francisco Chocolate Salon 2023 Awards Announced

• The Good Chocolate
• Rainy Day Chocolate

• aL chocoLat Boutique
• Kokak Chocolates
• Socola Chocolatier
• flying noir

• Kokak Chocolates

• Volo Chocolate
• The Good Chocolate
• Z Ciocolato
• Brigadeiro Sprinkles
• Bon Sucree
• Codinha Chocolate
• Sonoma Chocolatiers
• Kindred Cooks Caramels
• flying noir

• CocoTutti Chocolates
• Volo Chocolate

• flying noir

• flying noir
• Goufrais Southern California
• The Good Chocolate

• Kokak Chocolates
• Bon Sucree

• Kokak Chocolates
• Sonoma Chocolatiers
• Socola Chocolatier
• flying noir

Yummy! Chocolate combinations. Love the citrus flavors lime, lemon, and tropical flavors passion fruit, guava, mango… dark chocolate dipped orange my favorite! Coco tutti is the Best! Lime + Lemon + Strawberry bars. Thank you! 🤟🏻🤙🏻

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Flying Noir's Taiin was one of my favorite new truffles with its interesting, complex flavors of orange, star anise and pepper. Aano's Citrus Melange á Trois bar was delicately infused with a delightful combination of citrus flavors; I also liked the just-right heat in Aman's Mango Chili bar, and the wonderful flavor combination in their Cardamom Black Pepper bar. The exotic selection by Siamaya was enticing and their Massaman Peanut Curry bar was great. Volo and Forte's bars and truffles were also standouts. There were too many great tastes at this year's Salon that it was difficult to limit my votes!

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Michael's creates such exceptional and delicious combinations of ingredients and this time, the Bourbon, Caramel Pecan was even better. Flying Noir's creativity and flavor profiles are superb. XO Chocolate came up with a delightful play on camembert cheese. Kindred Cooks Mango Passion Fruit was mouthwatering . Amano always has delicious chocolate bars that you want to share with your friends and their packaging is improved. 1,2,3 Chocolat made a mousse that was heavenly. I actually wanted to scoop out a bowl and have it with a nice red wine. The chocolate covered matzoh from Cocotutti was satisfying and mouthwatering. aL Chocolat Boutique had two different truffles, the lemon lime and the citrus cheese cake that I so enjoyed. Brigadeiro Sprinkles Caipirinha was a delight. Goufrais' refrigerated chocolate was rich and creamy.

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Xocolate Bar's take on 'charcuterie' was outstanding. The "brie"chocolate & chocolate salami was great fun and delicious"; 3D Candies blue Fig truffle was great. Michael's Chocolates never fails to delight. Consistently the best! Loved CocoTutti's Carmel chocolate matzoh. Unparalleled.

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So much delicious creativity this time! All the chocolate egg variations were fun. It was nice to see new chocolate vendors too. Great Salon!

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There were many excellent artisans at the Spring Salon, each with their own approaches and flavor ranges. The judging was quite difficult.

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• CocoTutti Chocolates

• CocoTutti Chocolates

• Kokak Chocolates

• Amano Artisan Chocolate

• Charlotte Truffles
• aL chocoLat Boutique
• 3D Candies

• Kokak Chocolates
• Goufrais Southern California