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| - In Good Will Hunting, perhaps one of the most iconic scenes is when Matt Damon's namesake character verbally schools the ponytailed Harvard douchebag to help Ben Affleck save face and subsequently gets Minnie Driver's phone number. However, I think perhaps what truly won her over was the exchange which followed immediately afterwards when he turns down her offer to have coffee and to just get together and eat a bunch of caramels. Perhaps the caramels he had in mind came from Jean-Marie Auboine Chocolatier.
Thanks to Amanda M.'s review, I became aware of this little treasure tucked between some warehouse buildings near the Orleans Casino where you'd drive right past it thinking it was some sterile office suite if you didn't know it. Inside there's a lobby with some catalogs and there's a tiny room with a few artisan chocolates, strawberry-vanilla marshmallow rolls, and other confections on display. A young lady greeted me with an irresistible French accent and offered a generous set of artisan chocolates to sample including raspberry/jasmine tea, coffee/mascarpone cream, and their now famous dark chocolate double sea salt caramels recently posted in the New York Times as one of the top 10 caramels in the country! (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/dining/the-best-in-the-box-chocolate-covered-salted-caramels-for-valentines-day.html?_r=0)
Smooth silky dark chocolate draped over the most perfect bite of caramel in an exquisite balance between salty and sweet, the lingering finish transcends the already blissful moment when the two flavors are enmeshed together with each bite. For me, the test of a good bite versus a great bite of food is when it elicits emotion, and I found myself repeatedly cracking a smile with each subsequent morsel of the various confections layered with multiple progressions in distinct textures and flavors as it swirled on the tongue. The man behind the cocoa wizardry, Jean-Marie Auboine, came out to ask what I thought and he couldn't have been more gracious and mentioned they use the showroom facility as a workshop and even offer classes for food enthusiasts and professionals alike in the evenings.
While there may be several good bites of chocolate across town, this here is a great bite and granted they do not come cheap ($35 for box of 18), those salted caramels will be sure to leave a delectable impression on any girl's heart.
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