NEW ON SEVENTH AVENUE: CHOCOLATE GIRL

It's across the street from Naidres (near 12th Street) and my friend and tipster, Creative Times, says that there is a strong pink theme (and she has a thing for the color pink).

The interior is already incredible even though it is not finished, and it is all kosher. It deserves a photo. Creative Times will cover it, too when I get back but I see no reason why we can't both do a bit. The owner is nice, creative, etc. and deseres lots of coverage.

That's a first for Park Slope. Kosher chocolate. After a quick google I see that Chocolate Girl doesn't have a web site but, what do you know,  Brooklyn Paper did an article about the shop on July 21:

The new chocolate maker in town wants Park Slope’s picky foodies to know that “kosher” and “gourmet” needn’t be as incompatible as oil and water.

“Quality can be kosher, too,” said Tziporah Avigayil Jaeger, 26, proprietor of Chocolate Girl, a chocolate shop that will open on Seventh Avenue on Wednesday.

“It’s gourmet chocolate, and it just happens to be kosher,” said Jaeger, who lives in Midwood. “I only use top-quality ingredients.”

Pure chocolate is essentially parve, or non-dairy, Jaeger pointed out. It’s the additives, like milk and flour, which can render some chocolate un-kosher.

To avoid unholy ingredients, Jaeger imports her chocolate from a kosher company in Belgium. She tempers and reworks the sweet confection here in Brooklyn, where she has separate kitchens for dairy and non-dairy, and she has the treats certified again by Rabbi Avner Katz.