A Priori was founded by a cheesemonger/retail buyer who became obsessed with craft chocolate and was frustrated by the fact that no distributors in America focused on this important niche. Now offering much more than just chocolate, at A Priori, we value specialty foods that exhibit true craftsmanship. With a penchant for Old World style, we seek products made by hand with outlier levels of skill. Quite simply, we know quality. We vet potential new products through rigorous blind tasting, and if the provenance of the ingredients are not excellent we simply won’t carry them.