Dancing Deer is a great idea. So is LA Burdick (especially the chocolate mice!) Both are Boston-area based businesses. Link: http://www.burdickchocolate.com/

If you can get to walpole(approx. 20 minutes north) go to LA Burdicks on main street. Awesome chocolate, great food in their cafe - they serve lunch and dinner. enjoy!

My two favorites are the chocolate mice at L.A. Burdick in Harvard Square and the champagne truffles at Teuscher on Newbury Street

. While I’ve been eating well here out here on the west coast, there are a handful of things I’m not going to miss on this visit, like: L.A. Burdick hot chocolate, Cambridge Carberry’s scones, Cambridge Oishii...

I second Grafton Street, although it can get crowded. Highly recommend skipping dessert and taking a short post-brunch walk for the delectable hot chocolate at LA Burdick's (on Brattle St). Other good eating options: Tanjore or...

themselves yet, but they were giving out samples of hot chocolate with Chambord, which were very thick and rich (even more so than LA Burdick's...), not too sweet. I’m surprised that the website doesn’t really say...

In Harvard Square – Cardullo’s (various items) and LA Burdick (mostly choc & dessert items). Both have web sites or you can walk in, and place the order. They will deliver or you can pick up the basket yourself to...

I received many great suggestions in response to my post. I had to choose only two for now (with plans for more in the future), so here’s what I did: For my sister, though I was sorely tempted by the chocolate mice at LA...

to Angelina’s and L.A. Burdick's — absolutely amazing. This past December, I picked up a new box at Neiman Marcus (since I live in So. California) and was sorely disappointed — chalky, less sweet and without the...

I’ve heard that LA Burdick's has them in their cafes.

I recently placed an order with the wonderful LA Burdick chocolate makers, Walpole NH, for some little chocolate turkeys for the Thanksgiving table. I decided to add a bag of hot chocolate mix to the order. To our amazement, when...

Chocolat, Mariebelle, Recchiuti, Martine’s (at Bloomingdales in NYC), LA Burdick and Chuao is by far my favorite — the highlights for me are the praline based confections (gianduja, almond and hazelnut praline, almond...

L.A. Burdick in Harvard Square, all the way! We have 3.5 ounce bars and 2.2 lb blocks of single source chocolate and Burdick's blend dark chocolate. You can also find wonderful bonbons and fabulous hot chocolate!

I have my chocolate custom blended at LA Burdick in cambridge. i did once commision a run of special choclate chips for baking from their finest Grenadan cocoa. the difference was unbeliveable. I can never go back to domestic...

like it). Oh, I’ve also had Burdick's, but it’s like drinking liquified pudding, which is just too much for me – even having their mocha makes me sick.