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Husband-and-wife team Corey and David Menkes just opened their LetterPress Chocolate retail shop in Los Angeles’ Beverlywood neighborhood though they’ve been making their bars at the Robertson Boulevard location for a while now.
(Maria Alejandra Cardona / Los Angeles Times)The couple behind LetterPress Chocolate make their own chocolate bars from raw beans.
(Maria Alejandra Cardona / Los Angeles Times)The Letterpress storefront is paneled with reclaimed pallet wood.
(Maria Alejandra Cardona / Los Angeles Times)LetterPress co-owner Corey Menkes picks cracked beans from the Ghana batch for the store’s chocolate bars.
(Maria Alejandra Cardona / Los Angeles Times)Churning at the LetterPress store is a chocolate from Ghana being tested by David Menkes.
(Maria Alejandra Cardona / Los Angeles Times)LetterPress co-owner David Menkes puts the Ghana chocolate onto a particle distributor.
(Maria Alejandra Cardona / Los Angeles Times)LetterPress makes chocolate from start to finish by hand and its whole operation is on display at the store on Robertson Boulevard.
(Maria Alejandra Cardona / Los Angeles Times)LetterPress’ David Menkes puts Ghana chocolate onto a micrometer to see whether the chocolate is ready to pulp.
(Maria Alejandra Cardona / Los Angeles Times)LetterPress Chocolate also sells small-batch cold brews.
(Maria Alejandra Cardona / Los Angeles Times)David and Corey Menkes make 4,000 chocolate bars a month from start to finish on the premises of LetterPress in Los Angeles.
(Maria Alejandra Cardona / Los Angeles Times)A handout at LetterPress Chocolate explains the store’s bean-to-bar process.
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