Rock Candy Snack Shop
Up in Bernal Heights is Heather Young’s neighborhood oasis for locally sourced chocolates, truffles, hard candies, licorice, taffy, popcorn, caramels, rocky road, toffee, and brittles. Her focus is finding treasures from Bay Area artisans that tickle taste buds and inspire candy exploration. Rock Candy Snack Shop delights the entire community with fair trade, raw, organic, vegan, gluten-free, soy-free, and nut-free cavity-inducing options. It even offers a PMS gift box full of treats to get you through chocolate emergencies! Genius.

What to get: The absinthe-flavored chocolate bar, double-salted licorice, toffee, and Snake Butterfly chocolate in a variety of odd (yet amazing) flavors.

Rock Candy Snack Shop, 521 Cortland Avenue (between Andover and Moultrie streets), San Francisco; 415-948-7497.