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Marzipan!

At Love + Chocolate shop, our marzipan is hand-crafted by a German woman using traditional techniques. She has perfected the recipe and created a rich, yet light and airy texture with just the right amount of sweetness. Learn more about the history of this sweet treat here...

History of Leonidas Belgian Chocolates

Learn the interesting history of this beloved Belgian Chocolate brand...

Tagged: Belgian Chocolate, HistoryofChocolate, Leonidas Chocolate

Vendor Spotlight -- Heritage Shortbread

We are not ashamed to say that we are shortbread snobs here at Love + Chocolate. We've wanted to carry a shortbread for awhile now -- to add to all our other amazing European confections -- but we just couldn't find one that met our standards until now! This Heritage Shortbread is made by descendants of the Scottish McGrain clan from a centuries-old family recipe. This amazing, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread is simply the best you will ever eat.

Tagged: heritageshortbread, shortbread

Vendor Spotlight -- B.Toffee

Did you know that in addition to our beloved Leonidas Chocolates that we are known for we also carry a variety of other vendors including B. Toffee. Read more about them here...

Tagged: B. Toffee, Love + Chocolate Shop, toffee, Walnut Creek

Leonidas Belgian Chocolate Love and Chocolate Everything East Bay

Leonidas Love + Chocolate Featured on Everything East Bay!

We are so excited that we were just featured on the local program "Everything East Bay!" Check out the video here...

Tagged: Belgian Chocolate, Everything East Bay, Leonidas Chocolate, Love + Chocolate, Love and Chocolate

Best of East Bay Awards

If you have enjoyed any of our fine sweets, we would really appreciate your vote! If you feel we deserve it, you can vote for Love + Chocolate in the Food category...

Tagged: Awards, Best of East Bay, Leonidas Chocolate, Small Business

Fastest Chocolate in the West!

After the remodel of the store, we needed to get all our delicious chocolates merchandised back on our brand new display counter. Check out how fast we are!!

Store Refresh is Underway!

We've started our store refresh at Love + Chocolate shop. You can check out a super cool Time Lapse video...

Coming Soon: Store Refresh!

Anyone out there a fan of home makeover shows? Well, we are! Watching the magical transformation that can take place in such a short time period is always fun to watch. And, in just a few weeks, we will be living out our very own makeover when we do a pretty big interior design refresh at the shop. See some photos of what's coming....

Tagged: Refresh, Remodel

Small Business Saturday A Huge Success

We had a great time on Small Business Saturday! If you haven't heard of it, Small Business Saturday was started a few years ago to encourage people to shop the Saturday after Thanksgiving at small, independent shops like Love + Chocolate. So on Saturday, we were out in front of the store...

Leonidas Classic Chocolate Box Assortments

For Leonidas fans, there is nothing more wonderful than seeing that classic gold box arrive in the mail or as a gift! You know that it is filled with the most wonderful chocolate in the world and you can't wait to share it with others (or keep it to yourself!) :)

Tagged: Ballotin boxes, dark chocolate, Gianduja, gifts, gold Leonidas boxes, Leonidas Chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate

Love + Chocolate: New Name, Same Delicious Chocolate!

Hello! And welcome to our very first blog post! In this post we thought we'd tell you just a little more about our shop and our product. And let you know why we have changed the name of the shop to Love + Chocolate!

Tagged: blog post, Store name

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