Sweet Dream Come True: Bridge St. Chocolates

Gail Warner, Owner of Bridge Street Chocolates had a sweet dream about opening her own chocolate shop and calling it Bridge Street Chocolates. "I picked this name out in my early 20's and I'm 25 years past that now. It was 25 years ago and I was going to do it Lambertville but I realized I didn't know enough about business so I thought I better climb the corporated ladder. Then, after I was done climbing the corporate ladder I thought, well.."

What she thought was that it was time to turn her sweet dream into reality. That's how Bridge Street Chocolates  was bon.

"I did all kinds of health care for over twenty years. My last last job was in financial services.. It was a great run, but it was time to go."

Now Warner is spending her days in the kitchen and coming up with chocolate creations that people can't seem to get enough. "We've got a wide variety of flavors. Fruitys, nuttys, coconut, champagne, the kids love the cupcakes and the teddy bears and then we have the traditional butter creams, jelies and meltaways."

Warner says most, but not all of the chocolates she sells are handmade right in the store.

"We don't make everything. We do bring some things in like the artisan ones, we bring those in from Vermont. They do such a beautiful job for us and people love them," Warner told Patch. "We don't do sugar-free, we don't do espresso but everything else. We're pretty busy in the back making on a regular basis."

What's the Most Popular Chocolate?

"People love truffles, people love (chocolate-covered) pretzels but the one thing people are looking for when they come into town whether they live here or not, they come in looking for sea salt caramels."  Warner says. "They go crazy for them, and that's consistently male, female, young, old, but mostly adults though. We've got a wide variety of flavors. Fruitys, nuttys, coconut, chapagne, the kids love the cupcakes and the teddy bears and then we have the traditional buttercreams, jellies and meltaways."

Another Home-made Favorite is Bark.

What is a bark? "A bark is solid chocolate which usually will have rather a chocolate bar, a bark is something that you can just break apart," Warner explains. "We have almonds, or blueberries, we have an espresso bark, we have wasabi bark, we have salt and pepper bark and for the more adventurous, tha's where they go."

Do they Make Custom-made Chocolates for Special Occasions?

Yes, Warner says.  "We do. We do cocoa butter transfers.  It is like (temporary tattoos) for kids on their arms."