{"id":126138,"date":"2026-01-16T19:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/126138\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T19:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:57:09","slug":"especially-sweet-gourmet-chocolate-boutique-to-open-in-keller-with-special-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/126138\/","title":{"rendered":"Especially Sweet Gourmet Chocolate Boutique to open in Keller with special mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA new chocolate shop, <a href=\"https:\/\/especially-sweet-gourmet-chocolate-boutique.myshopify.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Especially Sweet Gourment Chocolate Boutique<\/a>, is opening in Keller in January.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>The sweets shop offers a variety of chocolates like macadamia, fudge lovers and mousse, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p>Especially Sweet Gourment Chocolate Boutique is owned by Mike and Aspen Calhoun, who manage the shop with their son, Shane. It\u2019s a place for Shane, who was diagnosed with Autism when he was 4, to work and participate with the community, according to the boutique <a href=\"https:\/\/especially-sweet-gourmet-chocolate-boutique.myshopify.com\/pages\/the-story-behind-the-chocolate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Calhouns plan to eventually add other special needs members to the boutique staff.<\/p>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n<p>Especially Sweet is opening in the former brick-and-mortar location of clothing boutique <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/keller-roanoke-northeast-fort-worth\/business\/2025\/11\/04\/swanky-chic-to-close-keller-store-transition-to-online-sales\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Swanky Chic<\/a>. Aspen Calhoun said the first 100 customers at the store on its opening day will get a free sweet treat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new chocolate shop, Especially Sweet Gourment Chocolate Boutique, is opening in Keller in January. The details The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7612,54476,54471,54473,54472,54474,54475,116,118,117,54477],"class_list":["post-126138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-autism","tag-chocolate-boutique","tag-chocolate-shop","tag-chocolate-store-keller","tag-chocolate-stores-near-me","tag-chocolatier","tag-especially-sweet","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-keller-chocolate-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}