Deux Cranes News Today

Date night locales abound downtown.

Date night locales abound downtown.

The store will relocate to Lyndhurst, a spring market with Japanese goodies comes to the West Village, and more.

For the Year of the Rabbit, pick up a “Friendship Box” from Pearl River, a sampler from the Urban Hawker food hall and more.

Also this week: City Tacos sells its 3 millionth taco, while The Gärten, Tahini and Beeside Balcony top list of new openings

This guide features artisan chocolates with next-level design, nutty and spicy condiments and other gifts from San Francisco Bay Area producers that reflect the year in food and drink.

If you plan to engage in some retail therapy and want to shop local, we've got you covered.

Meet 3 new Bay Area chocolatiers folding Asian flavors into gleaming confections [San Francisco Chronicle] Feb. 9—Godiva may be shutting down all of its U.S. stores because of the pandemic, but new chocolate makers are continuing to set up shop in the Bay Area — and they’re bringing tempting, Asian-inspired flavor combinations like mango lemongrass and miso almond with them. The newest is Deux Cranes, a Los Gatos shop that debuted in February with stunning, Japanese-influenced geometric b...

Meet 3 new Bay Area chocolatiers folding Asian flavors into gleaming confections FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Kokak Chocolates sells chocolate bon bons with ornate patterns in San Francisco.Brian Feulner / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Kokak Chocolates sells chocolates with ornate patterns in San Franciscos Castro district.Brian Feulner / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of3 Pistachio rose chocolate and dark chocolate with raspberry by Deux Cranes photographed in San F...

If you want to impress someone with chocolate, get the impressive chocolate G. Daniela Galarza, The Washington Post Jan. 31, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Clockwise, from top left: Lagustas Luscious (New Paltz, New York), Midunu (Accra, Ghana), Chocolate Secrets (Dallas), Bonbonbon (Detroit).Photo for The Washington Post by Scott SuchmanShow MoreShow Less 2of3Top chocolate is from Midunu (Accra, Ghana); others from Chocolate Secrets (Dallas).Photo for The Washington Post by Scott...