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[rm]

Some ridiculous shit called Australian Homemade just opened near me -- it's icecream and chocolate and it kicks ass. And it's apparently a chain so maybe this is the sort of things that's only news to me.

I had a dark chocolate candy with a cranberry and chocolate ganache center -- which is like so in keeping with my own somewhat strange food logic I couldn't believe it.

And the icecream! Very not sweet. Major chunks of brittle dark chocolate folded into it. Go. Go now.

And dude, it's next to Criff Dogs.

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[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

It's probably not near you (my ignorance of NYC geography is stunning), but in the Helmsley Building on Park Avenue, there is a Leonidas Chocolates. They fly the chocolates direct in from Belgium every week, because they refuse to use preservatives. I will admit that they are perhaps a little short of the really good fruit things, like the one you described (which sounds delicious), but for sheer dark (and even milk or white) chocolate luxury, I have found nothing to beat it, even in Europe.

(And now I can order them online and have them FedExed to my door, proving that I must have more willpower than I knew, since I'm not lethally obese and broke right now.)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yup, I know Leonida -- very excellent.

ALso try Mannon if you ever get the chance -- similar freshness and it's mostly buttercremes with fruit. Excelent stuff. Bergdorfs carries them and Dean & Deluca I think.