If you need a gift idea for someone this holiday season, you might consider getting them a box of excellence from one of the country’s top 50 chocolate stores.
That’s right, North Texas has one of the best chocolate shops in the U.S. and Canada, according to Yelp Eliters.
Yelp compiled reviews and ratings of all recorded chocolate shops across the U.S. and Canada from the Yelp Elite Squad to find the 50 best. Members of the Yelp Elite Squad are trusted reviewers with recommendations that are worth listening to.
Oregon and Hawaii carry the bulk of the top 50 chocolate stores. However, The No. 16 chocolate shop is located in Dallas.
Here’s where you can get a top 50 chocolate treat.
CocoAndré Chocolatier and Horchateria was ranked as the No. 16 place to get a chocolate treat by Yelp Elites.
Mother and daughter team Andrea and Cindy Pedraza opened the shop in 2009. Andrea worked at a chocolate shop part-time before she became a master chocolatier. Cindy was working in the construction industry learning how to manage a team and run a business. Then the two found themselves unemployed due to the 2009 recession.
With $1,000 between the two of them, they started CocoAndré.
Their style of cocoa focuses on European chocolate techniques with Mexican flavors. The Pedrazas source their chocolate from 3,500-year-old trees in Chiapas in southeast Mexico.
Read Erica E.‘s review of CocoAndré Chocolatier on Yelp
CocoAndré sells Dubai chocolate bars, truffles in the shape of cowboy boots and sugar skulls and Horchata lattes. They offer nearly every flavor one could think of — lavender, butter pecan, lemon, sea salt caramel, ginger, rosemary, blood orange, pistachio, coffee, Mexican vanilla and mint are just a few of the options.
Yelp Elites note the Dubai chocolate bar as one of their favorites as well as chocolate covered oranges. Many members also love the Horchata matcha latte.
CocoAndré is located in Bishop Arts at 2111 S Edgefield Ave. in Dallas. They are open Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. they are closed Mondays.
The chocolate shop takes holiday orders for Thanksgiving and Christmas. To order, visit CocoAndré’s website under their Holiday tab.
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