The Treehouse used to be the Victoria Inn (1872-1920), and still has a ship's figurehead (carved about 1838) on its corner.
The chocolates are hand made in small batches in the shop. You can also have a tea, coffee or hot chocolate here, and all their hot drinks are served with a complimentary chocolate.
Oriental Mart are near Ice Nine in Nottingham and specialise in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Singaporean, Thai, Phippine foods and Vietnamese foods.
There's a very wide range of foods. Try some Korean pickled radish for an interesting change.
There's a small selection of fresh items, the lemon grass I bought was good quality. If you can't get to the shop they also sell on-line.
The Cheese shop in Nottingham has a good selection of cheeses and also some interesting delicatessen items including Mrs King's Pork Pies - as sold in Borough Market and which some say are the best in the country.
Local cheeses included Cropwell Bishop Stilton (including the smoked variety), white Stilton with Ginger and Mango, and Sage Derby. There was a good selection of blue cheeses including Barkham Blue, Cornish Blue, Garstang Blue, Harbourne Blue, and Lanark Blue. Cahill's Irish Porter Cheddar was dark (as you would expect), a couple who'd been to a tasting the night before had come back to buy some Tunworth soft cheese, and were very excited about it!
Like all good cheese shops, samples are available, but be warned - the more you'll try the more you'll want to buy!
Delilah is a fine food and wine merchant, close to Nottingham's Lace Market.
It's an exciting shop (with over 200 cheeses) and a good selection of salamis and other meats and all the usual (and some unusual) deli stuff.
There's also a tapas-style food bar where you can have something to eat and drink while you decide what to take home.
If you've gone to Borough Market to buy a pumpkin, you're very close to a branch of Konditor & Cook. On the awning it says "Deservedly legendary cakes, tarts, biscuits and savouries" and when you go in you'll see why!
As it was just before Halloween when I called, you could buy Halloween Pumpkins - made from marzipan:
Today in the UK it's Halloween. I've always been a bit against Halloween, regarding it as one of the poorer things to have come across the Herring Pond. Since reading Wikipedia, I've discovered that Halloween has origins in the ancient celtic festival known as Samhain and it was the Irish that took it to America. 
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