It's Easter. With Easter comes chocolate. Whilst the usual classic thing is small solid or large hollow milk chocolate eggs, the first world has gourmeted up to no end, and chocolate is one of those things. I am partial to visiting gourmet chocolatiers especially around Italy and Belgium and I do get excited by discovering a remarkable dark chocolate. Sometimes the cost is quite incredible - I mailed an item from Yuzu back to Australia for Easter once (http://eatlikeushi.posthaven.com/yuzu-by-nicholas-vanaise-ghent-02-2012) and my favourite dark chocolates have been from Yarra Valley in Victoria, Pierre Marconlini in Belgium, and two small local places, one in Bruges and one in Alba.
Burch & Purchese seems to specialise also in decorative pieces which are nice for occasions. I saw a very cute egg with a little chicken in it. Unfortunately my tactic of going on Sunday to make ease of parking and crowds proved unfruitful, as the store was mass raided on Saturday.
Nonetheless I settled for a chocolate bear, with bits of milk, dark and white. I'll wait for the weekend to try it.
