Our mission is to help people discover and learn about great chocolates which not only make them incredibly happy but also have a positive impact from the cacao tree to the chocolate bar.

Learn about “Happy Chocolate” and our Chocolate Tastings. See our facebook page to keep up with the latest happenings.

Visit the garage in downtown Palo Alto on Saturday mornings between 9 and 1 to explore our full collection of Happy Chocolate or call to arrange an appointment. Beginning Sat Jan 7 you can also pick up Full Belly Farms CSA boxes at the garage. (E-mail csa at fullbellyfarm.com to sign up.)

Tastings

The Chocolate Garage is the place on the Peninsula to find the best and ‘Happiest’ chocolate around. It is also the place to bring your friends and have chocolate tasting soirees. You will leave knowing much more about chocolate and cacao and feeling very good (full of chocolate)!

The Chocolate Garage hosts Happy Chocolate tasting parties by appointment in our downtown Palo Alto location or at a venue of your choice. We are also a source for many hard to find, artisanal chocolate bars. You think chocolate is fun and creative? Consider a team building activity, party, or Happy Chocolate hour for your company!

Happy chocolate?

Happy Chocolate is high quality chocolate that has a positive impact on the people along the supply chain and a positive impact on the planet. Direct Trade, A Stake in the Outcome/Profit Sharing, Bean-to-Bar in Country, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, Organic, Cooperative Grown Cacao, and Solar Powered are some of the paths to making Happy Chocolate.

Now is an especially exciting time for artisanal chocolate. In the Americas small, innovative bean to bar companies are popping up everywhere! These companies have found many ways to work with cacao farmers in a responsible and equitable way. Some are going the traditional third party certification route, many are not. Direct trade, profit sharing, paying above the Fair Trade market price, doing all the value add in the country where the beans are grown... each approach has merit and we work hard to find the ones that best suit your tastes and values.

  • Amedei
  • Askinosie Chocolate
  • Bonnat
  • Coppeneur (seletion coming soon)
  • Domori
  • Grenada Chocolate Company
  • Kallari
  • Madecasse
  • Pacari
  • Patric Chocolate
  • Pralus
  • Republica del Cacao
  • Taza Chocolate
  • Theo Chocolate

Articles mentioning The Chocolate Garage

Ambassador of the Bean
De Tourreil aims to ... boost the connection between cacao farmer and chocolate consumer — through the Chocolate Garage read more

Devour by Sarah D
So next time you think about Silicon Valley, don't just envision tech execs building spaceship-stylecampuses surrounded by apricot trees, but imagine heavenly bars of chocolate and make a visit to the all-knowing Sunita at The Chocolate Garage, where “happy chocolate” lives...read more

Roadtrip by David Pablo Cohn
Honestly, it didn’t take that much courage to wander down to the end of the land and peer my head in, but I wasn’t prepared for what I saw when I looked. It was indeed a garage, but with a brightly-painted interior covered with wrappers from hundreds of exotic chocolates from around the world...read more

The Paly Voice, Verde Magazine
How one Palo Alto resident shares her passion for chocolate and social activism with community...I am at The Chocolate Garage, in downtown Palo Alto, which is exactly what it sounds like: a garage transformed into a small specialty chocolate store and tasting event venue. read more

An Additional Flavor




This documentary film by Stanford engineering students Alice Eamsherangkoon and Dong-Nghi Huynh (Advisor: Jan Krawitz) explores a tasting event at The Chocolate Garage

Past events hosted by The Chocolate Garage

  • 23andMe Premium Tasting
  • Google Android Happy Chocolate Hour
  • Polyvore Happy Chocolate Hour
  • School Fundraisers - Addison, Ohlone, Jordan, ...
  • VMWare Global Marketing Holiday Party
  • 40th birthday parties (Names withheld!)
  • 600 Years of Chocolate Workshop
  • South Bay Cooking Club
  • Wine, beer, cheese, and chocolate pairings
  • Bridal and baby showers
  • Mom's (and Dad's) night out

In addition to one time events, we also provide monthly corporate chocolate deliveries in and around Mountain View and Palo Alto.

Contact Sunita for details and a custom quote.

The Chocolate Garage
654 Gilman St. Suite G(arage)
Palo Alto, CA 94301

sunita (at) thechocolategarage (dot) com
tel: 650-796-5287

Chocolate aficionados know that the field of cacao and chocolate covers everything from chemistry, politics, agriculture, biology, love, neuroreceptors, flavor, exploitation, vasodilation, addiction, and sustainability. To mention a few. Chocolate is varied and complex enough to keep the biggest geek interested for life and the most superficial glutton eating it regularly.

Sunita falls somewhere between those two ends of the spectrum.

Increasing the positive impact of cacao became Sunita's passion more than 6 years ago when she met a native Quechua farmer and began to see how chocolate production affected the health of communities around the world. Sunita brings her scientific training in molecular biology along with a tremendous appetite for yummy food to the table. In addition to hosting tastings, Sunita consults on the creation of new chocolate products.