Dallas gets a spot on the international chocolate map thanks to a Highland Park Village cheese shop, which has made a deal with a prestigious chocolate maker from Italy. The cheese shop is Molto Formaggio, and the chocolate is from Guido Gobino, a Turin company well-known for its chocolate treats incorporating fine hazelnuts.

In 2008, the company's cremino, a hazelnut and chocolate piece blended with sea salt and extra virgin olive oil, won an award for the world's best praline in the Academy of Chocolate competition in London. Other than flying to Italy, consumers previously had limited access to Guido Gobino's chocolates; online chocolate shop ChocoSphere was one of the only places to buy it.

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