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If you weren’t craving chocolate before, you probably are now.
New York City’s oldest chocolate shop turned 95 this month, making Li-Lac older than Mickey Mouse, the chocolate chip cookie and FM radio. So perhaps it’s time you tried a bite yourself.
While independently owned brick-and-mortar businesses are becoming something of an endangered species in our city, the owners of Li-Lac are on an expansion track: A sixth location is slated to open in Hudson Yards in the spring.
The chocolatier is surviving, co-owner Anthony Cirone says, by staying the same — with much of the process done by hand. “There is a more automatic way to make them, but this way, you really taste the freshness,” Cirone says.
You can see it all in action by peering through the glass facing the shop’s Industry City kitchen (and then purchase sweets at the attached boutique), or visit one of its other locations to taste nearly a century of tradition.
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Photo Credit: Corey Sipkin
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