Here’s a tasty heads-up! Chokaico Craft Chocolate is a to-die-for bean-to-bar chocolate shop where specialty cacao beans from Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and other unique origins are roasted in-house and transformed into the best dark chocolate bars.

After running a home-based business for 3 years and doing pop-up events to sell dark chocolate bars at wineries, coffee houses, and specialty shops, founder Fernando Velez discovered the perfect location for taking his craft to the next level: the historic Avon Train Station. In fact, the repurposed station was moved from its previous location near Main Street to Riverdale Farms Shopping Center—a foodie heaven in a serene shopping plaza with ample parking.

Now, customers from near and far come to this beautifully decorated shop to taste a variety of single-origin dark chocolate and milk chocolate bars; delightful dried fruits, such as oranges, apricots, figs, baby bananas, and ginger; and rich hot chocolate—one of the biggest sellers, as folks love the depth and decadence of a single-origin beverage to warm both body and soul on a cold day.

Indeed, the decor and the decadence of Chokaico Craft Chocolate transport customers to a Parisian confectionery boutique, where they can sample many varieties of single-origin plain bars, as well as some very creative toppings, such as Negroni-infused cacao nibs, toasted coconut candy, chile spiced pineapples and mangos, dried raspberries and strawberries, peppermint puff candy, and honey-glazed pecans. And if that’s not the stuff of some seriously sweet dreams, what is?