Chocolatier Bon Bon Bon announced a location will open in downtown Birmingham
Posted By: Detroit Free Press on April 24, 2025. For more information, please click here to read the source article.
Popular Bon Bon Bon, founded by head chocolatier Alexandra Clark, is adding another brick-and-mortar location in metro Detroit.
Downtown Birmingham will soon have a Bon Bon Bon location at 217 S. Old Woodward, the company’s fifth in metro Detroit, next to the Birmingham 8 movie theater. This location will be about 600 square feet, according to a release, and offer classic, uniquely made and designed Bon Bon Bon items with possible new products on the way. The new store will celebrate a grand opening on May 10, the release said, just in time for Mother’s Day on May 11.
“We can’t wait to bring our good goodies to the Birmingham community and share our handmade chocolate creations in a sweet new space,” Mar Manzanares-Brock, Bon BonBon’s communications supervisor, said in a news release.
Opening a location next to the theater has a special meaning for founder and head Clark.
“I grew up down the street from an old movie theater — the Penn Theater — where I saw my first movie, Hook (and was completely terrified!),” said Clark in the news release. “So, to me, there’s something really exciting and delightfully nostalgic about this Bon Bon Bon. Opening in Birmingham also means that my niece and nephews will grow up just down the street from their Tita’s chocolate shop—and not much could make me feel more proud than that.”
This artisan chocolate company is beloved and noted for its handmade chocolate bonbons creations using French techniques along with with clever, unique and stunning designs in a variety of flavors. These handcrafted bonbons, the company says, are also blended with “Detroit ingenuity.”
Its handmade bonbon varieties are dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, and caramel. Flavor examples include its Dear Jon, with matcha ganache, creamy espresso ganache, and dark chocolate. Salt of the Earth features salted caramel and Bon Bon Bon dark chocolate.
“The combination is like the Taurus personality itself — rooted in the earth, yet undeniably elegant and indulgent,” its website says. “And let’s not forget, it’s got a cheeky nod to dirt dessert — because if any sign is sticking to its roots, it’s definitely Taurus!”
After traveling the world studying the confectioner’s trade, Clark opened an experimental shop open only on Saturdays in the back room of a Coney Island restaurant. She funded the business, according to the Bon Bon Bon website, with “$32,000 from a taxi accident that she was in (leaving a chocolate show of all things).”
Since its humble beginnings, Clark and her staff (called The Babes Babes Babes) have received accolades and have been lauded locally and nationally by media outlets and in magazines. In 2016, Forbes magazine named Clark as one of its 30 Under 30 leaders in food and drink and noted last summer as one of the 10 Best Midwest Chocolate shops by USA Today.
Bon Bon Bon is headquartered in Hamtramck, where it was founded. Current Bon Bon Bon locations are in Midtown Detroit, Parker’s Alley in downtown Detroit, Ferndale’s Rust Belt Market, and in Nickels Arcade in Ann Arbor. On Saturdays, Bon Bon Bon is also at Shed 5 in Detroit’s Eastern Market. You will find current products and flavors at bonbonbon.com.
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