Brent Peters, chocolate maker and owner at Black Mountain Chocolate, speaks with a tour group during a chocolate and whiskey tasting event.
Black Mountain Chocolate is made in Winston-Salem.
Black Mountain Chocolate has vacated its quarters at 723 N. Trade St. and will remain closed for several months as it prepares to move into Bailey South at 450 N. Patterson Ave. in Innovation Quarter.
The chocolate making and coffee shop closed Aug. 1 to begin packing up for the move. The lease was up at the end of August, said Brent Peters, who co-owns the business with his wife, Millie. He said he originally planned to open in Bailey South in June but a series of delays, some of them caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, pushed back the opening. “Everything just took longer — approvals from the health department, everything,” Peters said.
Work is still in progress on the new Black Mountain Chocolate space in Bailey South. Peters said he now is hoping for a December opening.
The new 4,800-square-foot space will be considerably larger than the former 2,800-square-foot location. The new space will seat about 75 (or about 35 at 50% capacity). There also will be a patio that normally can seat 40 but probably will seat about 20 at 50% capacity to meet COVID-19 distancing guidelines.
Black Mountain Chocolate hopes to use some of the additional space to hold chocolate tasting events and classes.
Peters said he is looking forward to opening in expanded quarters, despite the pandemic. “I’ve signed the lease, and I’m committed,” he said. “We’ll be back.”
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A few of the tasty treats at Black Mountain Chocolate in 2015.
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Brent Peters, owner of Black Mountain Chocolate, taps a chocolate mold in 2018 to level freshly poured melted chocolate for hardening.
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Black Mountain Chocolate offered samples of its chocolate bars at its Trade Street factory and store.
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Brent Peters, chocolate maker and owner at Black Mountain Chocolate, speaks with a tour group during a chocolate and whiskey tasting event.
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Black Mountain Chocolate Peppermint Bark
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Sea-salt caramel stuffed figs dipped n chocolate by Tirra Cowan of Black Mountain Chocolate, seen in 2016.
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Megan Peters of Black Mountain Chocolate created peppermint chocolate bark during a class on how to make holiday chocolates at Southern Home & Kitchen, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015.
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Class attendees watch as Megan Peters of Black Mountain Chocolate demonstrates how to make chocolate peppermint bark during a class on making holiday chocolates at Southern Home and Kitchen in November 2015.
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Megan Peters of Black Mountain Chocolate spreads a layer of melted milk chocolate on top of a layer of dark chocolate as she makes peppermint chocolate bark while she leads a class on how to make holiday chocolates at Southern Home & Kitchen, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015.
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Besides chocolate and truffles, Black Mountain Chocolate offered a variety of macarons, cookies and brownies at its Trade Street factory and store, seen here in 2015.
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Megan Peters fills a truffle shell with ganache at Black Mountain Chocolate on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015 in the chocolatier's Trade Street factory and store.
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Visitors could see their chocolate being made in Black Mountain Chocolate's visible chocolate factory on Trade Street.
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