Coffee & Treats in Emeryville

An MD is one of the last people you’d expect to harbor a candy obsession. But Dr. Fiona of Fiona’s Sweetshoppe wholeheartedly embraces hers. When she relocated from the UK in 2005, Fiona couldn’t shake cravings for some of her homeland’s signature sweets—the same condition that drove colonial settlers to revolution. She finally silenced them by opening her own shop of British and European favorites. Fiona’s Sweetshoppe stocks candy beloved by children across the pond, from British toffee and Cadbury chocolate to gummy frogs and cola cubes, a cola-flavored hard candy. For those who can resist devouring their treats immediately, a variety of fanciful bags, tubes, boxes, and tins adorned with feminine flowers and enchanting stars line the shelves to package sugary gifts for friends, family, and recovering nutritionists.

Today's Groupon tickles your taste buds with a marshmallow tickling-wand made from a half-pound of Bassett's licorice allsorts. You get $20 worth of sweet, sweet treats for $10 at The Candy Store, a delectable candy boutique in Russian Hill. The Candy Store was named one of the best candy shops in San Francisco in 2008 by SF Weekly.Chocolate Olives: “These sweet, ovoid falsehoods betray no difference from their plant-flesh counterparts, to my indifferent jaws. Both mash with similar yielding resignation.”

Slow-roast your caffeine craving with this Groupon: $10 for a $20 gift card good for coffee and pastries at any of Philz Coffee's four SF locations. Philz Coffee specializes in customized blends of the highest-quality beans from around the world. A cup of its coffee costs $2.75–$3.50, so this Groupon could caffeinate you for almost an entire week. Plus, each Philz location stocks fresh and flavorful pastries to jive with the java in a beautiful dance of morning-taste known as the face-Charleston.Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

Today's Groupon lets you gawk at your froth with $20 worth of artfully foam-designed lattes and cappuccinos, coffee, pastries, and other epicurean delights at Epicenter Cafe for $10, a neighborhood coffee shop in SOMA, a neighborhood. Mamie LaCroix, Shreveport: This Louisiana native set the art world afire when a security camera tape of her breaking into Burger King and crying for hours was mistaken for performance art. While many viewed her emotional cries as a stirring comment about the value of nutrition in a consumer society, the Shreveport Police Department recognized her as the same woman broke into the Guitar Center and yelled at the rug for three hours earlier in the month.

Mission Minis' bakers turn out scores of regular- and bite-size cupcakes that have savored national attention through Food Network's Cupcake Wars. Ten flavors line the shop's bake cases, manifesting in classic and offbeat essences including cinnamon horchata and vegan banana maple, also available in gluten-free form. In the event of a malfunction in California's network of underground delivery tubes, the shop can deploy a mobile team to deliver confectionary orders right to doorsteps.