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Here’s the first of a few posts on holiday food finds and gifts from around town. Feel free to comment or email if you have some tips of your own.

The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills
419 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills
Store Hours: Monday - Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
310-278-2855

The Cheese Store is a great place to stop for gifts and to pick up goodies to serve at your holiday parties. The store has premade gift baskets and an incredible staff that will guide you through their myriad choices, feeding you samples along the way. The Cheese Store also has delicous wines, meats, olives and other gourmet goodies.

Sprinkles Cupcakes
9635 Little Santa Monica Blvd
Store Hours: Mon-Sat 9-7, Sun 10-6
310-274-8765

Sprinkles Cupcakes are are treat for any party and you’re likely to steal the show when you walk in with a box of these beauties. Sprinkles comes up with a few holiday flavors, last year I had the eggnog cupcake and it was tasty (and I’m no cupcake junkie). The cupcakes don’t come cheap, but they are nice for a treat.

K Chocolatier
9606 Little Santa Monica Blvd
310-248-2626

Diane Krön is the purveyor of this fine chocolate store. Her chocolates are based on family recipes and sold only in the Beverly Hills store. The divine delights focus on the chocolate and contain as little sugar as possible. Like the Cheese Store, tasters are welcome and it’s not unlikely to leave with more than you paid for (although you do pay a lot for the high quality). You can also see a sample of what she has online.

By Jonah (see more of his posts). Jonah is the founder of la.foodblogging and also created Digesty, a food blog aggregator and Cheww.com, a spam free foodblog search engine.