Li-Lac Chocolates

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Our Greenwich Village Store Hours have changed. We now open at 12 noon every day. Online Ordering is Now Available for most of our products. If you would like to order an item that is not available online, please call (718) 567-9500. Please see our Locations and Hours section for revised store hours. Li-Lac Chocolates creates a wide assortment of fine handmade chocolates , confections, truffles, and a variety of delicious gift boxes . Li-Lac Chocolates is located in New York City, with one location in the heart of Greenwich Village at 40 Eighth Avenue (intersection of 8th Ave. and Jane Street) and another location in midtown at Grand Cerntral Terminal's Market Hall. Lilac Chocolates continues an eighty-four year tradition of hand making fine, chocolate confections using only the highest quality and freshest ingredients. Every delicious item, made daily in small batches, is guaranteed for freshness. Almost all of the special recipes we use today were created by Li-Lac's original owner, George Demetrious. His recipes, production methods, and chocolate-loving spirit have been passed down though three generations. Li-Lac's current owner, Martha Bond, and its past three owners have all shared the same determination and responsibility to keeping the original Li-Lac ingredients and high-quality product established by Demetrious the day he opened Li-Lac in 1923. Demetrious, the original owner and founder of Li-Lac Chocolates, was a native of Greece who learned the art of chocolate making in France. In 1923, he opened his store at 120 Christopher Street in the heart of Greenwich Village, and applied his chocolate making expertise, using large marble-top tables and copper kettles, perfecting the recipes for confections such as hazelnut truffle squares, fudge, assorted creams, caramels, butter crunch and many other American favorites. He employed a staff of dippers and box packers who would contribute their own specialized brand of care and attention still found in every Li-Lac chocolate made today. When Mr. Demetrious died in 1972, he entrusted his recipes and beloved company to his devoted employee of over 25 years, Marguerite Watt. Marguerite carried on Demetrious' high standards for chocolate making until she retired five years later, selling the business to Edward Bond in 1978. "Edward Bond," Marguerite Watt would often say, "is the quintessential Southern gentleman." On many occasions, she told Ed that she wouldn't sell the company to just anyone: "Whoever comes in here after me, will be seeing to it that quality, caring, and commitment still count." Ed Bond was her man! A Mississippi native, who had recently relocated to New York City via New Orleans, lived around the corner from the Christopher Street shop, and was a regular patron, buying desert items for his catering business. When he would visit Li-Lac, he would allow all the other customers to be served first, so he could stay behind and visit with Marguerite. Over time they became good friends. She trusted Ed, and was certain that he was the individual who best understood the importance of quality, and respect for the Li-Lac tradition.

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