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408 W. 8th St. Dallas, TX 75208

214-943-5943

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Best Devil's Advocate
Award Winner 2011

Cuisine(s): Dessert

Hours: Sun 12pm-5pm, Tue-Thu 10am-9pm, Fri-Sat 10am-10pm

Price: $, $$

Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
Attire: casual

Features: Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible

Serving: Snack Food

Alcohol: None
Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary

Parking: Street

Description

The Bishop Arts District chocolatier owned and operated by Katherine Clapner has a sweet gig going. Consistently heralded among the best purveyors of sweets (and awarded Best Chocolatier in our 2010 Best of Dallas� issue), this shop pushes the envelope of cocoa standards. Clapner changes the selections seasonally, offering spicy curry-flavored confections one season, a roasted beet and Texas olive oil chocolate the next. Foil-topped nibbles aren’t the only things popular here. Push pops, marshmallows and kettle corn receive endless praise. This creativity has garnered Clapner and staff’s artisanal chocolates and treats national attention.

2011 | Best Devil's Advocate

When The End comes, some of us figure we might be greeting a large, reddish, hoofed fellow carrying a ledger marked "accounts payable." In that moment, we hope we're carrying lots of Dude, Sweet's artisan chocolates, fudges and marshmallows. Is it possible to corrupt the ultimate corrupter If anything can, it would be Dude, Sweet Chocolate's "Break Up Potion," with Breckenridge bourbon, agave syrup, Valrohna cocoa and Venezuelan dark chocolate sauce. When it looks like the jig is finally up... More »
2011 | Best Chocolate Experiment

There's something funky in the fudge at Oak Cliff chocolate laboratory and shop Dude, Sweet Chocolate. Same goes for the rest of the chocolate offerings created by chef Katherine Clapner. There's tobacco in one bite and curry in another, and the white chocolate popcorn is laced with green olives. The store offers a rotating menu of Clapner's chocolate experiments, which, thanks to the generous samples handed out by the store's enthusiastic employees, can all be sampled before purchase.... More »
2010 | Best Chocolatier

There is much to recommend about this Bishop Arts District chocolatier--from the truffles to the "Crack In A Box" bridge mix--but the "Chubby Nuts" are a good place to start: a mix of macadamias, soy nuts, almonds and hazelnuts, all candied, salted and covered in chocolate and powdered sugar. They're so much a staple of mad scientist-confectioner Katherine Clapner's repertoire they've even found their way into inventions like her frozen chocolate-apricot-mole Push-up Pop. Clapner... More »

At Dude, Sweet, Fifteen Pounds of Bacon Fat, One Interesting Cookie

By Nick Rallo | Thu, December 1, 2011

Got home late Monday night and saw the following post on Facebook from the chocolate wizards at Dude, Sweet: After breaking the sound barrier on I-35, I arrived at Dude, Sweet and desperately ask... More »
Dude, Sweet's Katherine Clapner: One Saucy Chocolatier

By Lauren Drewes Daniels | Fri, October 28, 2011

In the final segment of our three-part interview with Katherine Clapner of Dude, Sweet Chocolate, we discuss how she runs her little shop of wonder, plus her take on foods in different cities. Check P... More »
Katherine Clapner of Dude, Sweet on the End of "Exceptionally Shitty Italian" in Dallas

By Lauren Drewes Daniels | Thu, October 27, 2011

Katherine Clapner makes magic happen with her confections at Dude, Sweet Chocolate. Yesterday in our first interview, she told us about her pastry background and today we discuss the Dallas food scene... More »
Dude Sweet's Crack In a Box: I GOTTA HAVE IT, GIMME SOME, CRAAAACK

By Lauren Drewes Daniels | Fri, October 14, 2011

The first time I bought Dude, Sweet Chocolate's "Crack in a Box," it was on a whim and possibly because the name was amusing. Later that evening, as I polished off the last bite of the two large slab... More »
Most Eligible Dallas Episode 5: Honkytonks, Heartbreak and Heroism

By Hunter Hauk | Tue, September 20, 2011

We're watching Bravo's Most Eligible Dallas every week so you don't have to. The fourth episode finds formerly minor characters becoming thunder thieves. Read on. Most Eligible Dallas made its trium... More »
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Dude, Sweet Chocolate

408 W. 8th St. Dallas, TX 75208

214-943-5943

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2011 | Best Devil's Advocate

2011 | Best Chocolate Experiment

2010 | Best Chocolatier

At Dude, Sweet, Fifteen Pounds of Bacon Fat, One Interesting Cookie

By Nick Rallo | Thu, December 1, 2011

Dude, Sweet's Katherine Clapner: One Saucy Chocolatier

By Lauren Drewes Daniels | Fri, October 28, 2011

Katherine Clapner of Dude, Sweet on the End of "Exceptionally Shitty Italian" in Dallas

By Lauren Drewes Daniels | Thu, October 27, 2011

Dude Sweet's Crack In a Box: I GOTTA HAVE IT, GIMME SOME, CRAAAACK

By Lauren Drewes Daniels | Fri, October 14, 2011

Most Eligible Dallas Episode 5: Honkytonks, Heartbreak and Heroism

By Hunter Hauk | Tue, September 20, 2011