5 East 20 Street
(between Broadway and
Fifth Avenue)
www.burdickchocolate.com
L.A. Burdick must be visited in person in order to fully
appreciate if you are a fan of quality, handmade chocolates. Perfect place to
shop for gifts for your chocoholic friends, and their prepackaged wooden bonbon
gift boxes are pretty awesome. And
the staff is very friendly (they don’t mind you browsing and they wait until
you approach them with questions as opposed to shadowing you throughout the
store), helpful, and knowledgeable.
If the price is too chère for you, go, just to marvel at
their high-concept, whimsical designs. And since they’re handmade, each piece
is unique and distinctive. They are known for their mouse and penguin
chocolates. Almost too cute to eat. Almost.
They also offer other treats as well!
And, not only is it a chocolate shop; it’s a café, too!
There are a few tables where one can sit and enjoy a cup of spicy hot
chocolate, which is like shooting sugar directly into your veins. I confess to
wanting to crash right there at the table.
But perhaps it could have been because of the chocolate
coconut cake with lime buttercream and coconut flakes. How can you go wrong
with coconut?
And the Harvard Square—a dense, rich chocolate cake with
chocolate ganache and walnuts. Truth be told, I found the Harvard Square to be
a bit too rich for me, but it’s apparently one of their most popular items, so
of course I had to try.
And they also create specialty holiday chocolates. For
Easter there are BUNNIES of all sizes!!
As well as Easter eggs, of course!
HAPPY EASTER!!!
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