ItвЂ™s $150 and serves two to three and, if you are feeling splurgy, is absolutely worth trying. The specialty at this new downtown steakhouse, inside the Hotel Deco, is a 45-ounce wagyu tomahawk chop thatвЂ™s aged in-house for 60 days.

вЂњChocolat AbeilleвЂќ translates from French to вЂњchocolate honey bee.вЂќ All honey in the candy as well as in the pretty bottles she sells in the shop comes from her bees, which she raises on her property in Bellevue. Inside, finely chopped, savory hazelnuts meet honey-laced chocolate. DonвЂ™t miss the hazelnut honey crunch, a five-sided candy decorated on top with a fine grid of lined golden honeycomb. Pastry chef Tina Tweedy is making a chocolate for every taste at her jewel box of an Old Market shop, and there isnвЂ™t a bad one in the bunch. ItвЂ™s one of the best in Omaha, IвЂ™d reckon. Her baguette is sublime, with an outside thatвЂ™s crusty but flaky and an interior thatвЂ™s light and just slightly buttery. Owner Ellie Pegler trained at the French Culinary Institute and worked at high-end restaurants, including New YorkвЂ™s Michelin-starred Marea and Vaucluse, where she was head baker, before bringing her talent for bread back home. Others.Bread is serious business at this new bakery, which also serves excellent breakfast sandwiches and swoon-worthy pastries. Mouth is the best adver-tising, especially giving boxes of chocolates to In continuing to support local in the Old Market, Tweedy said, вЂњWord of Her next big plans include expanding the chocolate shop to the bay next door in order to make Chocolat Abeille a chocolate shop & dessert parlor. My son started baking rolls with me at MвЂ™s Pub, and now he is helping in the new bakery,вЂќ she said. вЂњI have a very talented staff who have been with me for years. Tweedy recently opened her own pastry shop called Vitale Omaha, only a few doors down from her chocolate shop. They are combining talents, productsДЄnd vision to give diners a well-rounded experience.вЂќ I also love seeing theД¬ollaboration of so many chefs locally. Its dimensions and how it can be presented. Highlighting a specific ingredient and focusing on its origin, exploring all of вЂњTrends in the industry that excite me most are those where chefs are Popularity of artisan chocolates can be attributed to the ability to captureДЄmazing flavor and artistry in something bite sized. Intrigued humans for thousands of years, so has beauty. Natural ingredients such as lavender for infused flavorings. Their ingredients, and throughout the shop can be found hand painted honeycombДЄ majority of her chocolate pieces are made using molds painted withД¬olored cocoa butter and filled with high quality chocolate.

Many of her choco-lates include her own honey as part of TweedyвЂ™s love for French style, chocolate, and honey bees, as she keeps several Having her workspace within the retail space, the tempering machineДЄllowed her to help customers while keeping up with the 75-100 pounds ofД¬hocolate the store goes through in a week.Д¬hocolat Abeille or вЂњChocolate HoneybeeвЂќ in French perfectly entwines Tweedy was able to purchase a tempering machine right before the Easter holiday Intense, but good because our customers loved it.вЂќ To keep up with demand, I was making chocolate all night, which was very вЂњEveryday was busy, and I was tempering our chocolate by hand as we Two weeks before Christmas in December 2017, Chocolat Abeille opened I love the historic architecture and being attached to the Passageway as it attracts tons of locals and visitors from all over the country and world.вЂќ вЂњIt was the perfect location, with a great community I already knew. While waiting for its reopening, she noticed a space across the street come available. вЂњI left an hour before the explosion,вЂќ she said. Included consistency, passion, the art of hospitality, gratitude, and makingД«efore her business adventure, Tweedy was the pastry chef at MвЂ™s Pub and Vivace for 5 years leading up to the day of the MвЂ™s Pub fire in January 2016. вЂњI gained valuableД®xperience that prepared me to be a business owner.вЂќ Her keys to success To work in both the front and back of the house in some of OmahaвЂ™s classic fineДining establishments as well as worked with some of the most fantastic chefsДЄnd restaurant owners in the industry,вЂќ said Tweedy. вЂњDuring my 26 years in the restaurant industry, I was fortunate enough The shop is owned by Tina Tweedy, a chocolatier with a culinary background working in OmahaвЂ™s restaurant industry. In the heart of the Old Market lies Chocolat Abeille, a chocolate shop with an aroma sweet enough to taste in the air.

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