The chocolate cafe is the brainchild of Perla Rosario, whose family has a cacao farm in the Dominican Republic, and her fiance, Leo Baez, who grew up on a cashew farm on the same island nation.

Dominican cocoa is primarily grown in the northern region of the half-island nation, but there are opportunities to explore and taste locally grown chocolate from anywhere in the Dominican Republic.

"Chocobar Cortés is based off of my family's 95-year-old chocolate manufacturing company, Chocolate Cortés which is based in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic," said Carlos Cortés, the owner.

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The Rizek family has long been the Dominican Republic’s largest processor of cacao, but only recently began making craft chocolate. Now with a Brooklyn location, the Rizeks bring their distinct and ...

The acclaimed chocolate shop draws inspiration from Perla Rosario’s family’s cacao farm in the Dominican Republic. Rosario, the company’s co-owner, spent her childhood summers on the farm ...

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The Dominican Republic deported dozens of pregnant women, mothers who had just given birth, and children back to crisis-ridden Haiti as it cracks down on illegal immigration.

The Dominican Republic navy is searching along the coast about 24 nautical miles from the hotel where Konanki was reported missing, General Commander Agustín Morillo Rodríguez told CNN on Wednesday.

Family and friends of an Indiana woman said they were shocked by her sudden death as she was aboard a flight returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic.