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| - After using the 4x4 capabilities of my nephews super-stroller to navigate yet another season of construction on Roncesvalles, we finally made it up to The Chocolateria - one of the newest boutiques to open up on the strip.
Immediately succumbing to the smell of delicious chocolate, we spent $20 in about 4 seconds! It was the sandwich board on the sidewalk that advertised the chocolate pairing of, get this, not just delicious chocolate and peanut butter, but BACON and cracked BLACK PEPPER that brought us in. OMG. Delish. It sounds wild, and I assure you it was, but somehow all of these amazing ingredients balanced each other out perfectly. The sweetness of the milk chocolate and the salt of the bacon cut the intensity of one another, and the peanut butter and black pepper were an added bonus.
Being the gluttons that we are, couldn't help but grab a bag of the popular chocolate dipped potato chips as featured in Toronto Life mag (article link below). They were good, but I'm not a huge fan. While the chocolate was delicious, the potato chips tasted like salty cardboard; a no-name brand or something of the like.
Overall, the chocolate is delicious. Cute little space as well.
Honourable mentions:
- The owner, Tim English, is actually a successful corporate lawyer who decided to ditch the briefcase for chocolate moulds and truffle making. Risk taking of this magnitude deserves some praise!
- Chocolate making classes
http://www.torontolife.com/daily/daily-dish/from-the-print-edition-daily-dish/2010/10/14/introducing-the-chocolateria/
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