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Bespoke is a little chocolate shop in NYC that opened this past Spring.  Its address is 6 Extra Place, shown above (insert joke about invisible store).  Chocolatier Rachel Insler does all her production in the little shop and still finds space for some tasteful shelving and a nice sales counter.  Rachel and her staff (there were three other people working when I went, including the register) have no tempering machine, but use a big melter and round truffle molds.  Everyone was very friendly and open; when I first visited the chocolatier was describing her process to a pack of chocolate fiends. (more…)

This is coolest thing L.A. Burdick has produced in the seven years since we crossed paths.  The frappes themselves = not so good.  And (if you think about the effort that went into this sign) it is a testament to how very slow it gets at chocolate shops in the summer.