Wayne Boatwright wrote:.
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> I used to love going to the little chocolate shope in the Plaza Hotel.
> They had a ownderful variety of European chocolates, as well as a variety
> of different European truffles flown in fresh. It was almost as much fun
> picking them out as eating them.
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It is easy to find European Chocolates, but Guittard, an American
chocolate maker is not well represented in NYC. If not for Alex Rast,
I would not even have known about these chocolates

I loved going to Rumpelmayer's at the St. Moritz Hotel with my
children. It was a wonderful Tearoom and Konditorei and had Steiff
stuffed animals for sale, besides the pastries and chocolates. I
don't even remember when it closed.

Another great place for chocolates was Altmann & Kuehne on Fifth
Avenue, probably opened here by Austrian Hitler refugees. It is long
gone, but the one in Vienna is still going strongly.