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Next time you crave tapas at MoVida, head west. You might even get a seat. MoVida Aqui Level 1, 500 Bourke Street (entrance off Little Bourke Street), city, phone 9663 3038 Licensed

Bites

MOTHER and daughter Joy Campbell and Karen Montgomery are the two-woman team behind the Yarra Valley's Grace and Paige, handcrafting artisan chocolates with palpable affection and attention to detail that some of their bigger competitors are lacking. Nuggets of sweet honeycomb encased in thick milk chocolate disappeared in minutes in the Epicure office, with less traditional offerings, such as spears of organic dark chocolate-dipped grapefruit confit, rewarding the curious. The hand-filled individual chocolates are adorned with ingredients from gold leaf to caramelised cocoa nibs and come in flavours typical and inspired €” try a dark chocolate goats' cheese and lemon-filled truffle rolled in white chocolate, or a milk chocolate truffle infused with organic chai tea. Free of preservatives, the chocolates have a short shelf life €” seven days, on average €” but we doubt you'll have any trouble getting rid of them before their use-by date.

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