Maison Bouche chocolate bars

Luscious, sweet, creamy, tasteful chocolate – made across the Bay, in Oakland!

We think that this is the dreamiest chocolate we’ve tasted in years.

Not to mention the lovely packaging, including their Spring “Botanicals” collection of mini-bars, with effortless tastes of tulip, raspberry, tropical fruits, rose and violet.

We devoured the “Peach Bellini” bar, with subtle & delightful hints of peach married with milk chocolate.

(Baby not included.)

Certified Organic California Asparagus, by the pound

At last.  For all of you who have slogged through asparagus-less fall and winter months, we’re here to tell you that it’s asparagus season, once again, and we have California-grown asparagus.

The great news is that asparagus has dropped in price/lb, since it is from California (and not from Mexico).

We like our asparagus al dente. Cook it for less time than you think, to avoid mushy asparagus!

TCHO Mokkacino

TCHO! This is some serious chocolate.

Warm caramel-y milk chocolate combines with local, roasted Blue Bottle coffee — to create the one true love above all:

the delicious, nutty and fabumochalicious result of chocolate and coffee.

Not surprisingly, this bar was named Best Flavored Milk Chocolate in America by the International Chocolate Awards.

Not easy to share. Just a warning.

Botanical Interest seed packets

If you have not already planted your seeds indoors, well – time to do it!

Spring is nearly upon us.

We have glorious seed packets full of incredible possibility:

From leafy green and crunchy edibles to squash-y edibles to rainbow-beautiful flowers —

Choose from a whole array of Botanical Interest seeds in our Home & Garden section near our succulents.

(And near the bananaphones.)

Cider, tall and less tall, assorted tastes

Certified organic turmeric

Turmeric has arrived.

We know you’ve waited for this 2012 harvest!

Those orange, knobby tubes – cousins of ginger – await in a basket, near lemongrass and mushrooms.

Need we tell you any more information?

Other than we’re open 9am-9pm…

Toys, toys & more toys

What more can we add?

TOYS!

Original jewelry by Amy Clare Tasker

Handmade! Unique! and dare we say…affordable?

Now you can add a bit of original and beautiful art to your shopping list.

Where is it? Look for this jewelry hanging beside the cashier.

Stirs the Soul raw chocolate bars & covered fruit

What’s another chocolate bar? What’s another bag of fruit-covered chocolate?

Chocolate maker Daren Hayes, a graduate of the Oregon Culinary Institute, stone grinds and slowly tempers the chocolate. The cacao beans themselves – high in magnesium and antioxidants – are from the finest wildcrafted and organic beans – shade-grown with tropical native plants to sustain the ecosystem.

Bananas, Figs & Currants is a recipe of moist, chewy organic fruit dipped in luscious date-sweetened dark raw cacao.

The scrumptious chocolate bars are sweetened with dates or with coconut palm sugar.  Each bar has its specific spice-to-sweet ratio, and own smooth & delicious character.