u/blessings-of-rathma

Every year for Mother's Day I send my MIL some truffles from the Chocolate Messenger. In the past they've been able to do next-day or next-business-day delivery. My order status from that weekend still says "we're assembling your order" or some such. If I call them on the phone I get voicemail, and the voicemail box is full.

I'd pop over there and see if the place is actually open, but I don't live in Toronto anymore.

Their website doesn't say anything about temporary closings and their social media doesn't seem to have been in use for a long time.

Has anyone heard any news/gossip about them? I'm about to try to get the charge reversed and just take MIL out to dinner next time I'm in town. (Or maybe order from SOMA, they're awesome too.)

How much do dry beans cost when you aren't buying them online from a bespoke beanery? Who has the best selection?

Back in my day we would buy them from bulk stores where there were huge barrels of dry goods lining each aisle and you'd pay by the pound. I don't know if those exist anymore since COVID.

I would like to start buying them dry to save money and be able to cook them better (my last couple of cans of cannellini beans from Wegmans seemed... almost too firm?) and the sources I see people raving about online might not be much of a savings beyond canned.

Cannellini is one of my favourites and I'm also trying to get a line on some dried butterbeans or gigante beans.

Hello from the other end of Lake Erie. I'm trying to figure out if Detroit sent us something cool, something that sucks, or didn't send us anything at all and this is a completely coincidence or a company schism.

Here in the Buffalo area we have two coffee shops called Great Lakes Coffee Roasters. Are they the same company as Detroit's Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Company? Ours only list two locations on their website, both here.