In his quest for all things chocolate, founder Michael Freeman has traveled the world to find the best chocolate makers, and his journeys have not been in vain. At CocoaBella, 16 international artisans are represented by their truffles and their flavors. If you’ve ever wondered how truffles flavored with jasmine tea, cinnamon, tangerine, and chili taste, CocoaBella has the goods.
CocoaBella first opened its doors at a cozy boutique in San Francisco’s upscale Marina district, where it offered customers a decadent chocolate shopping experience. In the same way they might examine precious jewelry, shoppers could linger over marble slabs
In fact, CocoaBella couldn’t have come at a better time. Ancient cultures treated chocolate as a medicinal elixir and even an aphrodisiac, and today’s scientific community has amassed evidence that chocolate can be good for your health too. Researchers have found that cacao contains high levels of calcium, antioxidants, vitamins, and anandamide (the chemical released when we’re feeling blissful). According to scholars at Cornell University, cacao has twice the level of antioxidants as red wine and thrice as much as green tea–thus helping your body fight diseases, regulate blood flow, and reduce blood pressure. Chocolate with high cacao content is especially beneficial in this regard.
To that end, CocoaBella offers a wide variety of delicious items to satisfy your chocolate cravings. How about a chocolate bar, the likes of which your corner store has probably never seen? CocoaBella has them from all over the world, including the famous Italian Cremino bars, a blend of hazelnut paste and chocolate that’s then filled to the brim with toasty hazelnuts and almonds.
You could hardly call us Americans deprived of chocolate, but for a long time, our selection was limited to supermarket brands, with only a handful of luxury names available at department stores and higher-end outlets. If you wanted truly rich, decadent chocolate, you had to travel to big cities or as far as Europe, but even then, you could shop for only a single brand at a time. But no longer – the CocoaBella chocolate boutique and online store offers a truly international selection of chocolate under one roof. Your taste buds will never be the same again. www.CocoaBella.com