On Mon 01 Aug 2005 06:06:42a, Margaret Suran wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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> 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

Perhaps easier in other cities. I could find Guittard at several
locations when I lived in Cleveland, and two of our upscale supermarkets
here in Phoenix.

> 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.

I remember Rumpelmayer's with great fondness. We would always stop there
for breakfast on the morning of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and at
other times in the summer we would sit at the soda fountain and have a
sundae.

I have to admit that I bought a Steiff bear there for myself. :-)

I believe tha last time I was there was in 1996.

> 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.

I don't believe I ever saw that shop.



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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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