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Godiva chocolates

We will be in NYC next week and I would like to find a place where I can purchase Godiva chocolates. Please help me. Thank you Lisa B.

After your first time in NYC you will realize that Godiva is everywhere. In fact, along with a number of department stores (and even the Barnes and Noble sell some) you can get anything at the following Godiva company stores in NYC... 793 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10021 PHONE: 212-249-9444 701 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10022 PHONE: (212) 593-2847 560 LEXINGTON AVE NEW YORK, NY 10022 PHONE: 212-980-9810 MET LIFE BUILDING 200 PARK AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10017 PHONE: 212-697-9128 245 COLUMBUS AVE. NEW YORK, NY 10023 PHONE: 212-787-5804 84TH & BROADWAY, 2325 BROADWAY NEW YORK, NY 10024 PHONE: (212) 579-3197 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA 52 W 50TH ST NEW YORK, NY 10020 ROCKEFELLER II 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, CONCOURSE SHOP #12 NEW YORK, NY 10111 PHONE: (212) 246-0346 GRAND CENTRAL STATION 105 EAST 42ND ST, LEXINGTON PASSAGE NEW YORK, NY 10017 PHONE: (212) 808-0276 TIMES SQUARE 1460 BROADWAY NEW YORK, NY 10018 PHONE: (212) 840-6758 SOUTH STREET SEAPORT 21 FULTON ST NEW YORK, NY 10038 PHONE: (212) 571-6965 WORLD TRADE CENTER ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER, BUILDING #5, CONCOURSE LEVEL NEW YORK, NY 10048 PHONE: (212) 432-7454 33 MAIDEN LANE NEW YORK, NY 10038 PHONE: 212-809-8990 WINTER GARDEN AT WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER 225 LIBERTY STREET NEW YORK, NY 10281 PHONE: 212-945-2174 LA GUARDIA AIRPORT, CENTER SECTION CENTRAL TERMINAL BLD FLUSHING, NY 11371 PHONE: (718) 396-2021

are you sure you mean Godiva? These are made by Campbell Soup Co. and while fine chocolates, they are available almost everywhere in the country. There are some lovely Belgian chocolatiers in New York. Someone will thing of the name I mean, begins with a T. that sells lovely chocolates in great decorative packages along the retail corridor to Rockafeller Center. Toscher? Something like that. Many other lovely ones as well.

I am looking for the best BELGIAN chocolates you may recommend! By the way I live up up state and we do have limited sources so Godiva is not readilly available. Thanks and I will be waiting for more suggestions

These aren't Belgian chocolates but the finest chocolates in NYC are Teuscher, a Swiss company. The store is in Rockefeller Plaza across from Saks near Fifth Avenue. Lovely packaging with many options. Belgian chocolate would have to be from Neuhaus. They have a direct sale web site but you can probably find them at Bergdorf's across from the Plaza. The Godiva shops chocolates are made in the US with the exception of the occasional candy especially imported for specific promotions. You can ask at the store but this year it is the little chocolate champagne corks for their Millenium packaging. Chocolate is not my business, I'm just a dedicated consumer. :-) You can order all this off the net but it will be much more fun to buy in person in New York. Have fun.

Thank you Jeff and Sharon for all your information. Lisa

In my opinion, Godiva chocolate is not the freshest. The best is from a company in Marblehead, Massachusetts, called Harbor Sweets; they have a website for looking and ordering.

There are still a couple of chocolate makers in NYC, if you want to give the local folks a try. I'm thinking in particular of Lilac, in Greenwich Village. I'm pretty sure it's on Christopher St. but it might be Charles. You could also try a specialty food store such as Dean & Deluca or Balducci's.

Surely they are available at a mall nearby wherever you live. Why waste your valuable time in NYC in search of same? To be honest, Hersey Bars are just as good and cosst a whole lot less.

No way! Hershey's is at the absolute bottom of my list. Ghiradelli is better, Dove is better, Godiva is getting up there, all the chocolate in Italy and France is even better. Haven't made it to Switzerland, Belgium, or Holland yet. Will test upon arrival...

....... Hershey bars as good as Godiva? I don't think so. Is Godiva the best chocolate? No. However, it's better than Hershey, it's consistent, and you can get it just about everywhere and know what you are getting. Lisa - Make an effort to hunt out a more "mom and pop" chocolate shop. I haven't been to NYC for awhile but I'm sure they have shops like this in various neighborhoods. Perhaps do a search on the Net. And remember, you can always go to Godiva's website. I'm sure they would be happy to ship them to you. :-)

The best chocolates are made and shipped (overnight) by Ethel M (Mars family)in Las Vegas, NV.

Belgian chocolate, makes Godiva taste like Hershy kisses. Godiva puts out pretty boxes wiht great presentation. Belgian chocolate tends to come in simple boxes and is decadent

it seems that everyone on this post would like this book, "the emperors of chocolate" it's a business biography of hersheys and mars and goes into the history of the choclate business, including a lot of the names mentioned here. it's really fascinating. you can read it on the plane ride to wherever your chocolate hunt is taking you!

Has anyone heard of Joseph Schmidt Chocolcates out of San Francisco? Delicious!! (And about Hershey being equal to Godiva: DON'T make me laugh!!!)

Lady G. - You must be kidding that Ethel M. is the best chocolate! There are so many superior brands to Ethel M. that the choices boggle the mind. And that "tour" at their factory... What a joke! P.S. to chocoholics in general: if you are ever at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, CA, try the chocolate covered fudge at Bodega. It is wonderful. They are know for it and it is made from a secret family recipe. :-)

Try the Godiva Truffels, expensive but sublime!

Neuhaus is better than Godiva. Shops are on their site (www.neuhaus.be). From a connoisseur in Brussels

Yum! Yum! Yum! An ice cream store in Richmond Virgina called Gelati Celesti ameks a flavor Chocolate Decadence! Eat this & you will think you have died & gone to heaven!

Thank you all for information. I got the Godiva Truffles as Frank recommended. They are heavenly delicious.