Dean's Natural Food Market in NJ

Welcome, welcome and welcome again. Two great stores. I've been there and they are really beautiful and fun. Please get your Halloween, your gourmet Halloween chocolates there and at the same time get some life, Life By Chocolate that is.

Dean's Natural Food Market, Inc.
1119 Route 35
Ocean, NJ 07712
Phone: 732-517-1515

and also at

Dean's Natural Food Market, Inc.
490 Broad Street
Shrewsbury, NJ
07702
Phone: 432-842-8686

Quick, go and buy some Life By Chocolate next week. We are shipping out their order on Monday.

The Chocolate Box has joined Life by Chocolate

You can now get Life by Chocolate Bark at the Chocolate Box. They'll be carrying it in bulk. This is am impressive store in Lambertville, New Jersey. Check it out. It's grand. Very beautiful.

The Chocolate Box
39 N. Union St.
Lambertville, NJ 08530
Phone: 609-397-1920

Enjoy your Life, especially your Life by Chocolate.

Welcome to Big Bear Natural Foods

I liked this store when I was in Lambertville. As a matter of fact, I really liked Lambertville. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of the store. However, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't shop there and especially by chocolates there. We'll be shipping Big Bear Natural Foods chocolates next week. So, hold on and go at the end of next week.

Big Bear Natural Foods
239 N.Union Street
Lambertville, New Jersey 08530
Phone: 609-397-499

That's right, people are still joining the movement. It isn't too late to join up. Enjoy life, eat chocolate. And that translates to: eat Life by Chocolate and buy your chocolate at Big bear Natural Foods. Another great New Jersey natural and healthy food store for Life by Chocolate. Yea!

By the way, there are three Big Bear Natural Food stores but so far only the Lambertville one is carrying Life by Chocolate. Stay tuned!

Welcome Organics, Inc. to Life by Chocolate

Organics, Inc.
1370 S Main Rd
Vineland, New Jersey 08360
Phone: 856-205-9700

Organics Inc has joined the growing movement of Life by Chocolate and we are happy to have them. They have bought our vegan chocolate. It's a great store so please go buy Life by Chocolate there and enjoy yourself.

I don't have pictures, unfortunately. But when I do, I'll put them up.

Lahiere's Restaurant

Kim and I had a very nice dinner here at Lahiere's in Princeton. I would recommend eating there. The wait staff was fun and involved. I played a guessing game with them. There were, it appeared, a couple of groups of Princeton faculty and we tried to figure out which department they were from. I won: Philosophy.



The ambiance was pleasant and enjoyable. Very collagey town goes out for a big night at the local gourmet restaurant decor. I loved it. The wait staff looked like graduate students and some of the did go, do go, perhaps had gone to Princeton though not all were students. However, top professionals all. And that's really why we go out, to be entertained. This place is entertaining.



I started off with the Oyster's Mignonette. Very nice. Next, we both had the Honey-Roasted Duck with Cranberry-Vegetable Spring Roll, Hoisin Duck Sauce. The wrapper on the "spring roll", more like an egg roll and could have been more crispy but we both liked the flavor. We loved the duck, though I found my duck over cooked. I told them medium rare and I got it medium to almost medium well. The duck was still very juicy but I want my duck breast rare to medium rare. Kim thought hers was perfectly cooked but then she likes her duck COOKED. For duck, no one beats Perilla. Sigh.




Well, I've invented a new rating system. Let's see. 5 Licked Fingers is the top rating and 1 Licked Finger is the bottom. So, if Bolo is 1 LF (sorry Bobby, I know you've always wanted to be a chef and I hope I'm not killing that dream), though I know Kim would give it 3 LF, and if French Laundry and Tru Restaurant are both 5 Licked Fingers, though I'd probably rank the desserts at Tru better than the cooking, then that would put Lahiere's at 3 LF. Very respectable. That would imply that 5th Avenue Cafe would be 3.5 LF, though I give the desserts 4.5 Licked Fingers, and the Grammercy Park Hotel Bar would be 2 LF. BTW, 0 Licked Fingers is a lawsuit. ;-) So many restaurants, so few reviews.

Please note that many of these reviews are over on Innsane. Check it out.

Olive May II has arrived

Please join me in welcoming Olive May II to the vegan chocolate revolution. A fun, warm and inviting store where they take their mission seriously. Indeed, the vegan chocolate bars and bark are in full blast off mode. Olive May II has put in a large order so please go and shop there. Princeton take note. Now you can get beautiful organic fair trade vegan chocolate bark and bars at Olive May II. You can also get our regular organic fair trade bars and bark. Look for our end cap.


Olive May II
255 Nassau Street
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
Phone: 609-924-4993
Fax: 609-497-9198



This is a hero's store. It's mythological and it is beautiful.





And no, that is not a camera trick, that is the horizon point you are seeing in the distance. ;-)



These people are lovely. They are warm and welcoming and fun. I felt right at home here.

Green Street Market has joined the Life by Chocolate revolution

Well, we were greeted by a beautiful group of chocolate loving women who run this great store. They bought a large amount of chocolate. Please go to Green Street Market and buy up all the chocolates. You know the quality of our chocolates. Go and buy.

Green Street Market
3167 Route 9 South
Rio Grande, New Jersey 08242
Phone: 609-463-0606
Fax: 609-463-1112

Check out this store.
Look how beautiful.

Cozy.


Ta dah!

NJ been bery, bery good to me

Well, our trip to NJ was incredible. Not only did we get an opportunity to stay in Cape May and see Kim's Grandmother's house in Cape May Point but we also got to see the NJ shore as well as Central and Eastern Jersey. Even more so than wunnerful MA, where my mom grew up, the New Jerseyans (or if you are from New York, New Jerseyites) started ordering and not small orders either. They did New Jersey proud. Now we have six stores in New Jersey. And we are loving it. I have pictures and I'll be putting them up ASAP. I'm too busy right now making chocolates with my staff.

And everyone is reordering. Life is fun. The bars are selling and I've finished the vegan bars. (Pronounced /vegan/ not /vigan/) Most of the bars come in organic as well though I use local honey and local milk and butter sometimes in my confections which are local and clean but not organically certified though they are hormone, BHT, chemicals, pesticides, etc. free. Small producers just can't afford certification.

I also have a bunch of restaurants and diners to review. Though one diner did disappoint and it was even Greek. Being from LI, I know good diners and usually NJ delivers on that score. Let's just forget that episode. Other than that, we had fun at our B&Bs and loved the food and the shore. Sigh. We can't wait to go back to Cape May.

Check back next week as I will have more time to post.