I went here today because I didn't feel like making a trip out to Hilldale for David Bacco's. Overall, it was interesting--but I don't think Candinas will be my chocolate shop of choice.\n\nThe storefront is very minimalist; there's pictures of chocolate bar wrappers among other drawings on the wall in a mural kind of way. It was definitely not what I was expecting.\n\nThe service was very friendly; my significant other and I were given samples of what they consider \"defective\" chocolates that they don't put into their boxes. It's nice to hear that they've got some pretty good quality control, but the taste of what samples of what we had were great--but not phenomenal.\n\nMy real gripe with this place is that you don't really get to choose what goes into the boxes; they have set up boxes in mind and for what I was getting them for (thank you presents for letters of recommendation), it wasn't exactly what I had in mind.\n\nThat said, it wasn't bad! The chocolate samples we were given certainly were very good; very creamy and exactly what one should be hoping for in a truffle--but for me, it's lacking something I can't really name. And for that price? Close, but not five-star worthy.
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