LetterPress Chocolate is opening a shop

The couple behind LetterPress Chocolate make their own chocolate bars from raw beans.

The Letterpress storefront is paneled with reclaimed pallet wood.

LetterPress co-owner Corey Menkes picks cracked beans from the Ghana batch for the store’s chocolate bars.

Churning at the LetterPress store is a chocolate from Ghana being tested by David Menkes.

LetterPress co-owner David Menkes puts the Ghana chocolate onto a particle distributor.

LetterPress makes chocolate from start to finish by hand and its whole operation is on display at the store on Robertson Boulevard.

LetterPress’ David Menkes puts Ghana chocolate onto a micrometer to see whether the chocolate is ready to pulp.

LetterPress Chocolate also sells small-batch cold brews.

David and Corey Menkes make 4,000 chocolate bars a month from start to finish on the premises of LetterPress in Los Angeles.

A handout at LetterPress Chocolate explains the store’s bean-to-bar process.