Iris Delights in the Media

San Diego Reader Feb. 14, 2023

Iris Delights and the art of beautiful chocolate

Go to Tierrasanta to make any occasion special, with or without heart-shaped candies

Author: Ian Anderson

Place: Iris Delights Artisanal Chocolates

6030 Santo Rd Suite G, San Diego

A Valentine’s Day line formed almost the minute the shop opened for business. Probably, most people who wanted to mark the occasion with a box of chocolates had bought one days ago. Those of us who’d waited til the last minute would make a point of going early to Tierrasanta, home to Iris Delights Artisanal Chocolates. Because we’d needed something special.

Iris Meyers was ready. After eight years of this, the candymaker reckons she has something like 75 recipes to choose from, including regular customer favorites such as Mexican Hot Chocolate and Peanut Butter Meltaway, and a special one called Hazelnut Crunch Surprise (the surprise having to do with popping candies inside).

But on this day, her glass counter boasts a preponderance of love-themed creations. Several heart-shaped chocolates are filled with flavored ganache (passionfruit or champagne, for example). Others have colorful, heart cut-out stencil patterns applied to flat tops, such as a chocolate ganache or lavender sea salt caramel. At least one features both: a heart-shaped dark chocolate port wine ganache, applied with filigree hearts.