The Golden History of Chocolate Factories in San Francisco | Eater SF

"If I trek all the way down to Ghirardelli Square — which locals rarely do — and join that long pre-pandemic line of tourists, I can smell chocolate in the air; Ghirardelli no longer manufactures chocolate in San Francisco, but that doesn’t diminish the shop’s gloss: exposed brick, brass rails, two levels’ worth of old-timey equipment and fun history facts, and gooey hot fudge sundaes whose fudge is melted down daily from wafers, ultra-smooth with the telltale sheen of emulsifiers and stabilizers and an aroma that billows out onto the square like a Cinnabon." - Becky Duffett