Chocolate Fashioned in the Gables
Summer 2018
When Persy Berger worked at the now-defunct Biga Bakery on Alcazar in the 1990s, she says many of the customers thought she was the owner. “One day I said to myself, ‘I will have my own bakery in Coral Gables someday,’” she recalls. “Unbelievably, it happened.” The first Chocolate Fashion opened 14 years ago on Andalusia, followed by another on Alhambra and a third on Sunset.
Today each shop brings a sit-down Parisian patisserie vibe, offering macaroons, truffles, croissants and the “best baguette of 2017.” But what they excel at is chocolate, imported from Switzerland and France and then fashioned into such popular items as their chocolate truffle cake.
Everything is made from scratch in their “commissary” on NW 27th Ave.; the kitchen on Andalusia was long ago overwhelmed with making mango mousse, Napoleons, and chocolate-raspberry tarts.
—Lizzie Wilcox
