NEW YORK- Winner of the 2004 Timeout New York Eat Award for “Best Chocolate Store” and New York’s candy store for grown-ups, Chocolate Bar celebrates CBGBs: Home of Underground Rock with limited-edition products dedicated to saving Manhattan’s cultural institution. For more than 30 years, the eternal downtown nightclub has with ragged pride, served as the incubator for much of the punk and art-rock which came out of New York over the last thirty years including The Ramones, Patti Smith, Television, Blonde and The Talking Heads. Founded in 1973 by Hilly Kristal, the now grandfatherly 73-year-old converted a Hell’s Angels hangout into one of the most famous venues for live music and in doing so established a New York City landmark. Debuting this May, 2005, Chocolate Bar, in collaboration with Hilly Kristal unveils two edible lines of CBGB products including the CBGBs Punk Rock Box ($25.00); a 16 piece truffle collection embossed with the pioneering history and iconic imagery of CBGBs illustrious music scene. Served in a chocolate brown box, hot-stamped with the venues famed logo, it comes complete with a postage-paid petition to save CBGBs, a record-shaped biography, steel logo keychain and a collection of CBGB stickers. CBGB Retro Bars ($3.00 each); Inspired by those colossal flavors from late-night, post-show snack attacks, discover pure 1970 nostalgia with two new retro flavors. Each is wrapped in a limited-edition CBGBs keepsake, weighs an impressive 2.25 ounces and comes complete with a postage-paid petition to save the venerable venue. Chocolate Bar is located at 48 Eighth Avenue between Horatio and Jane Streets. Consumers can order product for delivery anywhere in the U.S. by calling 1.800.481.2462 or by visiting www.chocolatebarnyc.com.

SAVE CBGBS: Eat More Chocolate
CBGB’S by Chocolate Bar Collection Launch: May, 2005  
You may have a desk job but you can still raise hell. Chocolate Bar invites you to Save CBGBs by celebrating two of our favorite things brought together for one good cause: CBGBs: New York’s landmark venue and luscious, gourmet chocolate. Five bucks gets you in the door to an all-chocolate, rock-and-roll experience. Come down to the club, sign a petition and be the first to partake of the CBGBs by Chocolate Bar Collection. All proceeds go to Save CBGBs. Press please contact Workhouse Publicity, CEO Adam Nelson by telephone 212. 645. 8006 or via email at nelson@workhousepr.com

CBGBs: Home of Underground Rock
In 1973, behind the paint-splattered metal shutters of a former Hell's Angels' hangout in the East Village, New York club owner Hilly Krystal opened a bar previously known only as a wino haunt. He christened it the Country Blue Grass Blues & Other Music for Urban Gourmets - CBGB & OMFUG for short. But it never did become the haven for down-home roots music he wanted it to be. Instead, bands like The Ramones, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Blondie and Television discovered the place as somewhere they could play the sort of loud power-chord rock they wanted.  From the word go, CBGBs, as it quickly became known, was the darling of the New York rock scene. The space resembled a tiny hallway, making the acoustics great and even the tiniest crowd seem a teeming mass. By 1975 the club was being raved about in London, after Malcolm McLaren - then managing the Sex Pistols - caught a gig and decided that, in America, this was the place to be heard. As CBGBs 'discoveries' like The Ramones and Patti Smith graduated to bigger (and cleaner) venues, an avant garde streak of experimental rockers emerged there in the early 1980s, almost as a challenge to the out-there crowd who'd gone before them. Among them were New York experimental artist Lydia Lunch and a bunch of Brian Eno ring-ins dubbed "No-Wave" (as opposed to New Wave, which had by now grabbed England's imagination). But CBGB didn't stop discovering new talent then; They Might Be Giants, Black Flag and Living Colour are three discoveries of the late 1980s whose first gigs were at CBGBs. These days, CBGBs is still helping alternative bands from all over the world find their way up the food chain. And though there are far more alternative bands now than there ever were in the 1970s and 1980s, CBGBs is still the center of New York’s dynamic cultural scene.

Chocolate Bar
Winner of the 2004 Timeout New York Eat Award for “Best Chocolate Store”, Chocolate Bar is a candy store for grown-ups offering cosmopolitan luxury through old-fashioned collections and unique inspirations. Incorporating style, comfort and classic New York treats, Chocolate Bar features sweets by New York's Jacques Torres, Sweet Bliss and Garrison Confections along with a signature line of nostalgia-influenced chocolate bars. The boutique's dazzling menu includes authentic New York Egg Creams, coffee by illy Caffe, fine teas by Serendipitea, four kinds of iced and hot chocolates and pastries by the City's best bakers. Decadent confections are available for everything from Corporate gifts to personalized wedding and party favors. Online orders are available through Chocolate Bar's dynamic web site which allows visitors to order a host of scrumptious items including truffles, chocolate bars, hot chocolate, tea and more visit www.chocolatebarnyc.com. Chocolate Bar is located at 48 Eighth Avenue between Jane and Horatio streets in New York's West Village and since the store's opening in May, 2002, the concept has become extremely popular with sweet lovers of all ages. Created, designed and operated by Alison Nelson. For more information please visit www.chocolatebarnyc.com