{"id":324392,"date":"2026-06-30T08:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324392\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:22:25","slug":"garcia-nevett-chocolate-shop-named-one-of-best-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324392\/","title":{"rendered":"Garcia Nevett chocolate shop named one of best in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sisters<\/p>\n

Sisters Susana Garcia Nevett, left, and Isabel Garcia Nevett, right, at their upscale chocolate shop, Garcia Nevett Chocolatier de Miami in South Miami.<\/p>\n

Carl Juste<\/p>\n

cjuste@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, there are some facts you may not know about chocolate.<\/p>\n

Venezuelan chocolate is some of the most prized chocolate in the world. It blends well with cardamom or tamarind but not with rosemary (that ends up tasting like barbecue, and not the good kind of barbecue). Infusing chocolate with passion fruit is reasonably easy, but working with mango can be a struggle. It tastes spectacular over candied ginger. And if you don\u2019t believe there\u2019s such a thing as a dream job, let us disabuse you of that notion: You can earn a certification as a chocolate taster to become a true professional.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t need to know any of this, however, to wander into Garcia Nevett Chocolatier de Miami. The South Miami shop, which was just voted one of the best chocolate makers in the country by USA Today\u2019s 10Best<\/a>, sells some of the most creative and delicious upscale chocolate you\u2019ll ever taste.<\/p>\n

Venezuelan-born sisters Isabel and Susana Garcia Nevett, both certified chocolate tasters, started the business in 2012 like so many budding entrepreneurs in Miami: In a home kitchen (in this case, Susana\u2019s). They had a chocolate business back in Caracas, and, as Isabel Garcia says, hoped to introduce Miami to their passion: single-origin Venezuelan cacao.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to bring something positive coming out of Venezuela,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"Sisters Susana Garcia Nevett, left, and Isabel Garcia Nevett, talk about their shop, which was just voted one of the best in the country by USA Today\u2019s 10Best. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com <\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to know the difference between cacao, cocoa and chocolate. Cacao is cocoa in a raw, less processed form, grown on cacao trees in South America, West Africa and some Asian countries. The pods are harvested and turned into cocoa, then chocolate via a multi-step process.<\/p>\n

The Garcias don\u2019t make the actual chocolate; they source it from growers in Venezuela and occasionally other countries. Then they create their candy in myriad flavors.<\/p>\n

They also make a few cakes and the occasional cookie, but \u201cWe\u2019re not bakers!\u201d Isabel Garcia says emphatically. The heavenly square-shaped chocolate chip cookie and the chocolate cakes, which come in full size for $45 or a mini-serving for $15, would argue otherwise.<\/p>\n

\"Pictured Chocolate birds at Garcia Nevett Chocolatier de Miami. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com <\/p>\n

The sisters got their first commercial kitchen in 2016 and in 2018 opened their first brick and mortar on 57th Avenue in South Miami, in a plaza where you don\u2019t have to pay to park and passersby are lured in by the tiny, gorgeous chocolates.<\/p>\n

The move also marked a change in how they created the candy. Inspired by Miami\u2019s bounty, they started experimenting with new flavors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in Miami, such a cosmopolitan city, with a Latin American influence,\u201d Isabel Garcia says. \u201cThat means playing around with Miami flavors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"An An assortment of chocolates displayed at Garcia Nevett Chocolatier de Miami. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com <\/p>\n

They began to infuse their beloved Venezuelan chocolate with distinctly Miami elements as well as items sourced from around the state. The sea salt chocolate uses salt harvested in the Panhandle. The Garcias also use coffee from Miami\u2019s own Per\u2019La Roasters,<\/a> Florida honey and a variety of tropical fruit from South Florida trees, even Papa\u2019s Pilar Rum, which is distilled in Key West.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now we\u2019re getting a lot of lychees,\u201d Susana Garcia says, adding that a friend with a Homestead farm is supplying them. \u201cI\u2019m loving it. Working with local producers for us is a delight.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can order a box of Florida flavors or choose your own, like rum apricot, tequila lime, chili caramel, the sweet brown butter crunch or the unusual anis y papelon with fennel seeds, raw cane sugar and dark chocolate ganache. The most popular candy is passion fruit, and if you wanted a box of all passion fruit candy, that would be fine, too.<\/p>\n

\"Pictured Chocolate soccer balls at Garcia Nevett Chocolatier de Miami. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com <\/p>\n

A nine-piece Flavors of Florida box costs $26, with larger boxes running $45-$62 and a luxury gourmet chocolate chest for $240.<\/p>\n

Isabel Garcia likens their products to fine wine or cheese.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely more expensive than what you\u2019d buy at the grocery store,\u201d she says. \u201cWe realize we\u2019re an affordable luxury. It\u2019s an exclusive, sophisticated product. It\u2019s in our culture to love good quality chocolate. That\u2019s something we want to make sure people understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Sisters Sisters Susana Garcia Nevett, left, and Isabel Garcia Nevett, next to their wall of accolades for their South Miami shop, Garcia Nevett Chocolatier de Miami. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com <\/p>\n

The sisters are hoping to expand the business not by opening another storefront but by growing their online presence and increasing corporate gifting. They also plan to introduce an Advent calendar this year and hope to work with other local brands in creating new flavors.<\/p>\n

They have no plans to leave the South Miami location.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels very much like a small village, very local with all the small businesses,\u201d Isabel Garcia said. \u201cWe live here. We love the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia Nevett Chocolatier de Miami<\/p>\n

Where: 7312 SW 57th Ave., South Miami<\/p>\n

Hours: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday<\/p>\n

More information: garcianevet.com<\/a> or 305-749-0506<\/a><\/p>\n

Connie Ogle loves wine, books and the Miami Heat. Please don\u2019t make her eat a mango.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sisters Susana Garcia Nevett, left, and Isabel Garcia Nevett, right, at their upscale chocolate shop, Garcia Nevett Chocolatier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-324392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}