Sweet Melissa Closes Cobble Hill Shop

original location, on Court Street in Cobble Hill, has closed due to rising rent, says The New York Times. The shop had been whipping up French-inspired sweets since 1998.

Owner Melissa Murphy has decided to consolidate the business into Sweet Melissa’s , on Seventh Avenue, telling the Times that “the rent hikes gave me no choice.”

In 2008, the Cobble Hill shop expanded to open Sweet Melissa Cremerie, which specialized in ice cream. 

Patch over the summer and we were a fan of Sweet Melissa’s raspberry chocolate truffle ice cream, “a vanilla ice cream laced with ribbons of raspberry, with miniature dark chocolate truffles filled with raspberry sauce.”