Small Bites

If you love your sweetie—but not enough to stand in line outside your local chocolatier’s shop shivering, The Chocolate Fetish has introduced a relationship-saving way to buy truffles for Valentine’s Day. The store’s “click and pick” website (www.chocolatefetish.com) allows Asheville residents to order their Velvet Sin and Ancient Pleasures truffles from home and bypass the line “stretching down the sidewalk on Haywood Street,” exalts an optimistic press release.


Earth Fare also has chocolate-coated plans for the holiday, with every department in the store featuring its own unique chocolate item the weekend before V-Day. From Friday through Monday, both locations of the natural-foods chain will be setting out samples of treats including chocolate-covered nuts, cocoa-dusted Monterey Jack cheese and Mexican hot chocolate fondue. For more information, call 253-7656 (Westgate location) or 210-0100 (Hendersonville Road).


Love’s also in the air over at Greenberry’s Coffee and Tea Company (1550 Hendersonville Road in Asheville), where owners Joanne and Tom McCarthy so adore their customers, they’re giving them food and drink for free. On Friday and Saturday, Feb. 9 and 10, coffee drinks, muffins and croissants are free. The rule is one drink and one food item per person, per day. And no fair picking up a free latte for a friend: You must come into the store between 6:30 a.m. and 10 p.m. to claim the goods.

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