Valentine’s Day falls on a Saturday this year, which means I don’t have to expend so much energy silently judging the relationships of co-workers who receive suffocatingly smelly bouquets at work. My idea of romance is a little more low key than that. Take this tin of chocolate skulls from newly-opened Bond Street Chocolate, for example. $14 for six pieces of artisanal dark chocolate isn’t exactly cheap, but for a gift, it’s understated, cute, and sublimely edible.  If that’s not your idea of a nifty V-day present, Bond Street also sells gold-leaf, solid-chocolate buddhas ($10 small and $20 large). Believe it or not, these two options cover a wide range of datable people. But, if your sweetie isn’t a skull person or a buddha person, chocolate bars and ganaches, some made with tequila, others with passionfruit caramel, are available.

Bond Street Chocolate (not really on Bond Street)
63 E. 4th St, between Second Avenue and Bowery
(212) 677-5103