Being a native Californian, I’ve been lucky enough to visit San Francisco several times. Somehow I never made it to Ghirardelli Square until this past February.

Although you can but Ghirardelli chocolate at Target and the grocery store now, it was still really cool to go here. They give you a yummy chocolate sample for just walking through the doors. We shared an ice cream sundae covered in delicious Ghirardelli chocolate, made right on the premises.

Watching the men producing the syrup was fascinating. I had an idea how chocolate was produced due to a visit to the Schokoladen Museum in Cologne, but it this is a far more intimate setting.