BLU Boy Chocolate Cafe and Cakery Archives

BLU Boy Has Special Sweets For Weekend Date Nights

BLU Boy Chocolate Café and Cakery has been serving hand-crafted chocolates, pastries, ice cream, and hot drinks in the little shop next to the…

December 14, 2018

BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR An artisan is a craftsman, someone who works with his hands to create singular and distinctive works of art. In the…

March 27, 2013

BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR When I am home, I am a creature of routine. Most of my days start the exact same way. I get…

March 6, 2013

BY MAGGIE MORTON Rizza shivered in an outdoor wire pen at an animal shelter. The elderly dachshund had no hair; she stank and had…

December 11, 2012

Bloom Magazine celebrated its sixth anniversary on August 9 with a gala in the Tudor Room at the Indiana Memorial Union. The event was…

October 9, 2012

BY ELISABETH ANDREWS David Fletcher wanted to open a dessert shop, but he had a “medical” problem: what was he going to do about…

July 12, 2012

BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Sex in the City may not have managed to make New York singles look like multidimensional, well-adjusted people, but it did…

March 19, 2012

Food Editor Christine Barbour describes ten of her best foodie moments of the past five years. Bloomington is a great place to eat, a…

February 13, 2012

BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR The BLU Boy Chocolate Café and Cakery sells sweet fantasies and chocolate dreams. On Friday and Saturday nights the “Boys” are…

January 25, 2012