Sadly the choices offered at many local chocolate stops range from milk to basic dark chocolate (and that’s if you are lucky). That’s why we were so excited to tell you last October about Edmonton’s Kerstin Roos, whose inventive creations run the gamut from 72 percent Ecuadorian dark with cayenne pepper to 49 percent dark milk with Maldon fleur de sel. Roos has now opened a downtown retail location for Kerstin’s Chocolates to offer up her award-winning creations. And for those really bitten with the chocolate bug, the st240ore will offer monthly chocolate tastings to explore such topics as the subtle differences between various cocoa plantations in the Dominican Republic.—Jennifer Cockrall-King