After 14 years, Dude, Sweet Chocolate is packing up and moving to a new space in Bishop Arts.
Dude, Sweet Chocolate is pictured in Bishop Arts. Chef Katherine Clapner opened the chocolate shop along Eight Street in 2009.“Welcome to chaos,” Katherine Clapner said, standing in the empty, freshly painted front room of a 120-year-old house in the heart of Bishop Arts.
The Dallas chef and creative force behind Dude, Sweet Chocolate is in the throes of ushering her chocolate shop — a steadfast fixture in the neighborhood — into a new era. By July 1, “come hell or high water,” she’ll close the chocolate shop she started in a brick storefront on Eighth Street in 2009 and reopen it in the little Victorian house down the road.Picture it, she said: Shelves lined with chocolates in the front room.
The quaint blue home, a relic from the neighborhood’s past, sits on the corner of Eighth Street and Bishop Avenue — about as central as it gets in Bishop Arts. It’s had many lives, but it most recently housed a clothing store. It seems only fitting that one of Bishop Arts’ oldest and most recognizable buildings will house one of its longest operating retailers.
“I’ve got a very short time frame to pull this off,” she said, with dirt on her brow from the mulch she had just spread in the yard. “I’ve been doing everything myself and I’ve got to get some help.”chocolates, classes and tickets to events at the chocolate shop to raise funds. She’s hit 20% of her goal of $35,000, she said.Why the tight deadline to make the move? Well, she said, her lease is almost up and the house unexpectedly became available.
Dude, Sweet Chocolate will move from 408 W. Eighth St., #102 to 336 W. Eighth St. in Dallas. It is expected to open in the new location by July 1, 2024., Staff Reporter. Since first starting her career at The Dallas Morning News in 2015, Claire has reported and written on a wide range of topics, covering breaking news, Dallas City Hall, criminal and civil courts and, most recently, food. Her work last year included the shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets and the fentanyl epidemic.
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