The Food Buster

Scharffen Berger 41% Extra Rich Milk Chocolate Bar
41% Chocolate
$4-$4.50 for 3 oz. (85g)
Scharffen Berger produces a 41% Extra Rich Milk Chocolate Bar with no frills that nevertheless nails all the fundamentals.
First off, the presentation is the traditional Scharffen Berger presentation. For more info, read up on the Scharffen Berger Bittersweet Chocolate Bar. Basically, the [...]

Lake Champlain 5 Star Hazelnut Chocolate Bar
Filled Milk Chocolate Bar
$3.80 for 1.8 oz. bar (51 g)
Organic Chocolate
This bar is incredible in all the ways that count, though it does have a few superficial problems. First is the presentation: This is just a small, chunky, fat candy bar in a plain paper wrapper, with barely [...]

Chocolove Cherry and Almond Chocolate Bar
55% Dark Chocolate
About $3 for 3.2 oz. (90g), but I’ve seen it as low as $2.65
Organic Chocolate

My first experience with Chocolove was a tragic disappointment (refer to Chocolove 33% Milk Chocolate Bar), so I wasn’t looking forward to this bar, which I bought before knowing just how [...]

Chocolove 33% Milk Chocolate Bar
About $3 for 3.2 oz. (90g), but I’ve seen it as low as $2.65
Organic Chocolate
I’m not the greatest fan of organic chocolate, and unfortunately Chocolove doesn’t do anything to change my view with this 33% Milk Chocolate Bar.
The presentation is very nice, especially for something so cheap. The bar is [...]

Recchiuti Dark Milk Chocolate Bar
55% Cocoa
$7 for 4 oz.
If nothing else, Recchiuti’s Dark Milk Chocolate Bar comes off as aesthetically pleasing. It comes in a large bag of sorts, but that bag has a lot of nice little touches, like Recchiuti’s seal and signature, a little blurb about trying to change people’s views on [...]

Amano 30% Ocumare Milk Chocolate Bar
30% Milk Chocolate. Beans from Ocumare.
About $7 for 2 oz.

The presentation of the Amano Ocumare Bar is very nice. It comes packaged in a very sturdy, tight box, rather than a wrapper. The bar itself is presented in 15 little even squares that are pretty easy to snap off, [...]

Cacao Sampaka Raspberry-Flavored Dark Chocolate
Spain
Cost: €3.60
Keeper!
This is quite an impressive bar. The aroma of raspberries even bursts out as you open it.
Presentation: 3.5/5.0
The presentation is simple, yet refined. Cacao Sampaka always divides its bars into two 50g, thin, rectangular pieces. This design is great, not only for the implications for melt (look below), but also [...]

Icoa Bar
White Chocolate Bar
Producer: El Rey
Country: Venezuela
Cost: $3.50
Very nice, nutty flavor. Does not taste much like a white chocolate—more like a milk chocolate, with a hint of nuttiness and a heavier cocoa butter taste that is characteristic of white chocolate. It’s nice. Smooth, nutty, flavorful, but not overpowering. Not cloying either—doesn’t leave you with a [...]