Our Story

At The Ticket Kitchen, we believe life’s best moments are often the simplest. And that’s the approach we take with our chocolate. We know that if we use only the finest ingredients we will create chocolate that is worth lingering over. Every one of our chocolates is carefully handcrafted in San Francisco of the finest couverture chocolate. We believe it is the perfect chocolate for late-night conversations with old friends, overdue romantic moments, and quiet mornings all to yourself.

Meet AmberLee and Andrea
Founders of The Ticket Kitchen

AmberLee grew up in a ridiculously picturesque town in the Andes mountains in Venezuela, to a family of German and Austrian immigrants. Living among European relatives who understood and loved chocolate, and among the world’s most revered cacao plantations started AmberLee’s lifelong love of chocolate.

AmberLee’s family later moved to the states and landed in Boise, Idaho. Unlike Venezuela, Idaho had winters. AmberLee quickly discovered that a cup of hot chocolate made the winters gentler. AmberLee has been playing with world chocolates and flavors for her hot chocolate ever since. She now lives in Northern California with her husband and three children and looks forward to the first cold day of each year. Her favorite thing to do while drinking hot chocolate is to read Dickens, because she is a book nerd, and then collapse onto her pillow before 9:30 at night, because, did we mention? she has three children.

Andrea is a lifelong San Francisco bay area girl. She spent childhood winters having hot chocolate at San Francisco bakeries and cafes, visiting FAO Schwarz to ogle the two-story toy displays, and watching the tree lighting in Union Square. Andrea’s favorite time of the year is the fall and winter, mostly because she loves throwing parties, giving gifts, and anything with glitter. She still lives in the bay area with her husband and four children, and like many mothers, helps run everything from boy scouts to a tree decorating event every year for charity.

Why The Name?
Like a great trip, we want our chocolate to create a moment to remember, which is why we here at The Ticket Kitchen consider nothing but the world’s finest chocolate and ingredients when creating our recipes. We want to create chocolate that sends you.

The Ticket Kitchen is the result of years of dreaming, and several late night conversations. We’re so happy you’re here to be a part of our
dream come true.