PARK SLOPE — Chocolate lovers can get a side order of booze and a close-up view of candy making at the Nunu Chocolates shop opening soon on Fifth Avenue.
The Nunu Chocolates Cafe and Tap Room, which is scheduled to open by Halloween, will sell boxes of Nunu's truffles and ganaches, but customers can also sit and enjoy 10 beers on tap and sweet and savory foods, said Nunu's director of accounts Keith Flanagan.
"It will be a full-service cafe," Flanagan said. "You can get a beer but you can also get a cappuccino."
The menu will include charcuterie, cheese platters, housemade pastries and other "chocolatey snacks," Flanagan said.
The rotating selection of beers will feature a brew specially made for Nunu by Barrier Brewing Co. The cafe will serve Blue Bottle Coffee and beverages such as frozen hot chocolate and frozen lemonade.
The 50-seat space will have indoor and outdoor seating, free Wi-Fi and a "chocolate station" where customers can watch workers hand-dipping Nunu's popular salt caramels. It will be open from 7 a.m. until midnight Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. until midnight on Saturdays, and 9 a.m. until 10 p.m. on Sundays.
The shop, Nunu's second Brooklyn location, is opening at 179 Fifth Ave. between Berkeley and Lincoln places. The space was previously home to Caramello, which closed in September 2013.
Other recent comings and goings on the neighborhood retail and restaurant scene include the following:
► Cajun-themed pizza restaurant Two Boots is opening a new outpost at 284 Fifth Ave. and First Street, Here's Park Slope first reported. The restaurant's original Park Slope location, at 514 Second St., closed last year after 24 years in business.
► Beva, a children's boutique specializing in hand-knit clothes and toys, moved out of its Seventh Avenue and 14th Street location and reopened in a larger space at 340 Seventh Ave. between Ninth and 10th streets.
► Permanent Records, the vinyl shop that was previously in Greenpoint, reopened in the South Slope at 159 20th St. between Third and Fourth avenues, Brooklyn Vegan reported.
► Painted Pot, the do-it-yourself pottery studio, moved from 72 Seventh Ave. to 200 Seventh Ave., between Second and Third streets.
► After 22 years in business, Seventh Avenue Art Supplies at 376 Seventh Ave. and 11th Street will be closing in November, Park Slope Stoop reported.
► Crustacean chain Luke's Lobster rolled into Park Slope in late September, opening at 237 Fifth Ave. and Carroll Street.
