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Edible Santa Barbara
"As a child growing up in Switzerland, I never thought about where the chocolate I ate came from," says Maya Schoop-Rutten, owner of Chocolate Maya in Santa Barbara...
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SantaBarbara.com Restaurant Guide
Voted best place for chocolate for 2008 - 2009 - 2010.
National Geographic Traveler
Chocolate Maya, on Gutierrez Street, is a jewel box of a chocolate shop where owner Maya Schoop-Rutten (behind counter) likes to chat with customers and hand out samples...
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Daily Sound
Chocolate Lovers Paradise: A store devoted to our favorite indulgence, chocolate of course, has just opened in Santa Barbara. Chocolate Maya has everything a chocolate aficionado needs- namely 35 types of handmade chocolate truffles from all over the world...
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Montecito Journal
"Chocolate is the answer; who cares about the question?" This is just one of the many rules that Maya Schoop-Rutten lives by. Her boutique, Chocolate Maya, brings together chocolates from around the world here to Santa Barbara...
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Independent
According to Maya, anyone who professes not to like chocolate just hasn't had the good stuff yet. And, with her newly opened shop, Chocolate Maya, she's setting out to change that. Former owner of the Comeback Café, Maya Schoop-Rutten sold the restaurant to open a chocolate shop — something, she said, she has always wanted to do...
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Food and Home Magazine
Come in and snuggle up to Chocolate Maya, for all your chocolate needs...
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Santa Barbara Magazine
Rich dark, luscious milk, creamy white... Whatever your vice may be, Chocolate Maya-the recently establiched shop tucked off Gutierrez Street downtown-can indulge you...
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