Just four words: bacon sea-salt caramels. You need to know more? Really? Fine. In the three years since Brian Pelletier abandoned a career in PR to run Kakao Chocolate (pronounced "ka-kay-oh"), he has been steadily pushing the boundaries of confectionery. There are truffles in unexpected flavors, including smoke, green tea and spiced rum; barks that mix dark chocolate with white pepper and sea salt and strawberry and black pepper; a cocoa-based barbecue rub; and the "Big Squeal," a buttery brittle with nuts...and bacon. None of these things tastes like anything you've ever had before — they're better. Pelletier uses only the freshest ingredients, including, sometimes, chocolate from last year's winner, Columbia's Patric. (Is that a double whammy or what?) Sign up on Kakao's Facebook fan page, and Pelletier will send you periodic invitations to his Fox Park workshop/café to sample his latest work in progress.
Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Company
| Sep 25, 2014
Bissinger's at Maryland Plaza
| Sep 26, 2013
Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel
| Sep 27, 2012
Askinosie Chocolate
| Sep 22, 2011
Patric Chocolate
| Sep 30, 2009
Kakao Chocolate
| Sep 24, 2008
Bissinger's: A Chocolate Experience
| Sep 26, 2007
Chocolate Cafe & Coffee House
| Sep 27, 2006
Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate
| Sep 29, 2005
Bissinger's
| Sep 29, 2004
Bissinger's
| Sep 29, 2004
The Chocolate Bar
| Sep 24, 2003
The Chocolate Bar
| Sep 24, 2003