Lake Forest Answer Man: Life is like a box of chocolates. Where can I buy some?

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Updated: February 20, 2012 8:24AM

The Lake Forest Answer Man is a hopeless romantic.

Valentines Day is coming up. Where can I buy my chocolates for my sweetheart? ~ Milton Hershey

Lake Forest has just the place for premium pillow placements of candy at Chocolates by Bernard Callebaut, 825 S. Waukegan Road.

Located in the shopping area north of Sunset Foods, the store offers a variety of ways to give chocolate. Prepared gift boxes are of various weights and are ready to go, or your own personal selections can be gift wrapped. Counter trays offer multiple selections. Elsewhere in the spacious store on tables and shelves are chocolates in iconic shapes that include heart, Cupid or Santa figurines, Easter Bunny or eggs, or even a Driedel, depending on which holiday you show up for. No, the company has not worked its way up to offering a Lady Godiva figurine on a white chocolate horse. Yet.

Be prepared. This is premium candy and, like Ms. Godiva found out, will cost you the shirt off your back with chocolate prices in the neighborhood of $50 a pound. Of course it is worth it. Answer Man has made many purchases of these Belgian-tradition chocolate gifts at this store and has never been disappointed. Never.

Also offered are Organic Marshmallows “enrobed in milk or dark chocolate” for the health food person in your life, or Organic Biscotti dipped in dark chocolate for that Peet’s or Papa Nicholas’ coffee drinker in your life.

Other options for chocolates for your beloved are Sweet’s (no relation to this newspaper’s editor) at Deerpath and Bank Lane in Lake Forest and the recently opened Sweet Things in downtown Lake Bluff.

Questions may be sent to the Lake Forest Answer Man at orchardandmain@comcast.net