Chococo Dorset Dinosaur Bar £8, johnlewis.com This extra-large, handmade bar is made with 44 per cent cocoa solids from Grenada.
Although downtown facades may hark back to when the town was a Western outpost, the stores' interiors, lined with handmade candles, bars of lavender-scented soap, copper cookware and designer jeans, show just who is stopping by these days.
Thirty of its 95 seats are around a handmade oak bar that serves 60 kinds of beer.
Zoë's Chocolate (121A North Market Street, 301-694-5882; zoesellsolate.com) sells handmade pralines and bars.
INSTEAD of peanut M&Ms, think Tumbador's PB&J chocolate bar, handmade in Sunset Park.
Designed by the Santa Monica-based design boutique agency Studio Collective, it has macrame lampshades and sea shells, hand-painted Mexican tiles along the bar, leather bar stools handmade in Spain and A-frame ceilings that give the look and vibe of an old-school Hollywood Hills bungalow. .
Ms. Cooke sold bars of handmade lemon-thyme soap for $3 apiece.
His design studio-shop-gallery, Chandler House, is a treasure trove, with well-selected paintings, knicknacks and furniture alongside his own ceramics, his handmade Cape of Good Soap bars of soap, and greeting cards cut out like Cape Dutch gables.
Bespoke Post says the bars are handmade in the United States, without "harsh" ingredients like synthetic dyes, parabens, sulfates or phthalates.
Don't leave without snapping up a few bars of handmade Cardamom and Orange Dark Chocolate bars from local chocolaterie Cocoa Fair. 4. Honest Chocolate.
