Where to Get the Viral Dubai Chocolate Bar in Dallas | Eater Dallas

"Amid the viral “Dubai” chocolate bar trend, the Bishop Arts shop’s owner and chocolatier Katherine Clapner set out to make a higher-quality version rather than another cheap-looking knockoff. Her bar features a hard chocolate shell that cracks open to a vibrant pistachio butter center made with agave, salt, and sweetened condensed milk; it’s intentionally a bit textured because it’s produced by hand rather than in an industrial grinder. To add crunch and Middle Eastern character, she incorporates toasted kataifi (a shredded phyllo-like pastry) mixed with pistachios and butter. Because the chocolate is fragile, the bars are cast in larger shapes to hold the filling, hand-packed in a protective plastic sheet and a small padded box tied with twine, and produced in limited runs of about 100 so new batches are only poured when the previous ones sell out. The entire prep and packaging process takes seven days, so the item is treated as a short-run, attention-driven offering rather than a permanent menu staple." - Courtney E. Smith