Alegio is located in the Epicurious Garden building in Berkeley. They are awesome. In an area that is filling up with specialty chocolate stores, they manage to have unique products - by shipping them in from Barcelona! One wall of this chocolate nook is filled up with brightly colored cubes filled with stuff that - if you can read Spanish - turns out to be chocolate-covered corn, chocolate flavored with espresso, and about eighteen other kinds of chocolate snacking wonders. The store owner, Panos, is awesome and apparently French and ships his partner's handmade chocolates in from Manhattan every week, sighing about how she left for love and she'll be back here someday. And every week, he features chocolates from a different local chocolatier, and will sample them with you and share his opinions of their skill.
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