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    Hotel Chocolat - Inside Angus's emporium - stout fellow

    Hotel Chocolat

    4.5(11 reviews)
    8.0 mi
    £££

    I remain a fan. It's quality all the way and fair priced. The company is truly worth our support…read moreand it has earned and deserves 5 green stars all the way. Brighton was buzzing and hot - a great city to spend a few days around. All those serving us were simply delightful and courteous. We bought our usual booze and nut based (macadamia and cashew) choccy and on this occasion we also tried a box of marzipan chocolates that were divine. We had the best ice cream sundaes, mine was passion fruit based and my wife went for the caramel based one. Both were delicious. The only down side was no customer toilet. As I see it when you serve drinks you provide rest rooms. These are premier league chocolates, hot drinks, alcohols like gin and cream based drinks, fab ice creams and they have branched into body lotions and cosmetics. Hotel C makes me think how shameful it is that Britain once had great chocolate makers and has lost them all to conglomerate greed. I'm conscious I no longer know enough about Thornton's as they have disappeared from view. I still remember one British chocolate maker that had as common in a chocolate box, green chartreuse filled chocolates and chunky stem ginger chocolates when today they sell stuff that they label chocolate when it barely is (a bit like cheap sausage makers saying their nasty products contain 'meat') instead they make stuff full of cheap sugar, cheap vegetable oil (they sell off cocoa butter to the cosmetics industry for more money and find cheaper muck to add to their manufacturing processes). In fact I watched a documentary on one of the big mega conglomerates about making chocolate bars and one of the staff actually discussed their efforts to make their products as cheaply as they could and how they worked hard at finding ways to make bars with as much of 'other' ingredients to cut back on chocolate. They sure a fooling a lot of people a lot of the time. For me it's Hotel Chocolat all the way.

    Before you get too excited, Hotel Chocolat is not a place you can check in for a couple of nights…read moreand get pampered by staff feeding you individual chocolate truffles made from the finest cacao. I'm sure that place exists somewhere but alas, its not here! Hotel Chocolat is actually a chocolate company aimed at the luxury market. Their packaging is slick and simple and their shops are packed with gift boxes, hampers and slabs of chocolate aimed at obvious markets like For Him, For Her, For Them. I'm not a fan of their milk or white chocolate - I much prefer Monteuzumas and Valhorona - but I do like their dark chocolate and particularly, their Single Estate bars from Venezuela, St. Lucia, Madagascar and Sao Tome.

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    Paul A Young Fine Chocolates

    Paul A Young Fine Chocolates

    4.5(30 reviews)
    48.5 miSoho
    £££

    I went into a million artisinal chocolate shops in London searching for gifts and the best…read morechocolate and this was one of my favorite places for fine chocolate! (Tied in 1st for my favorite London chocolate was the Pump Street chocolate curated by Harrod's department store, and one from Whole Foods hah!) Paul A Young is famous and won awards for their salted caramel chocolates, unique and unlike any other I've had because they're much softer than the usual caramels, but at the same time not completely liquid. I personally thought their brownies were the best part - they seemed overly dense but were so rich and perfectly decadent. I also purchased the sampler of different varieties of milk and dark chocolates, and it was my least favorite because I felt the darks were a little too dry and bitter and the milks were too creamy and sweet. I'd recommend you taste the samples on the main table before purchasing. The truffles were beautiful and the flavors unique but personally I was not a big fan (except for the salted caramels). Overall, highly recommend a visit here for the salted caramels and brownies!

    The chocolates are definitely works of art, especially the ones adorned with gold dust or gold…read morewrapping. Unique flavors give the truffles personality, such as basil, porter with pretzel chunks, PB&J, mango and lime daiquiri, and my favorite named chocolate: Seedy Soho. So they do a twist on classic flavors with fun names, and of course, a beautiful presentation. Each chocolate runs £2 each, with a quantity discount as you buy more, example, a box of 4 will be £7. If you're looking for something the kiddies may enjoy, the chocolate covered brownies are the way to go, and are not only pretty but are fairly large and only run £2 each. Expiration dates vary, so definitely be sure to ask about each before making a purchase, if you are planning to gift them later down the line. Many of the hand-selected chocolates last only about 7 days, others a little longer depending on the contents. I always feel strange about going into a business where people hover and follow around as if I might break or touch something they don't want touched--that's sort of how it's felt the few times I've been inside the store. No doubt, there are phenomenal displays of chocolate out in the open that they simply don't want messed with: a round table in the center of the room with truffles and other delicacies jutting out in intricately placed rows, a vat of "Aztec" hot cocoa that appears as thick as sipping chocolate, trays and trays of chocolate covered brownies, and shelves adorned in boxes of truffles and molded chocolates, so perhaps that's why the staff make it a point to keep a keen and wandering watch over their guests. So I'll definitely return for the chocolate covered brownies since they're so rich that they taste like chunks of pure fudge, an also pop in for hand-selected chocolates for gifts, I just wish it didn't always feel like "big brother" was watching all the time...

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    Paul A Young Fine Chocolates - Shortbread Bonanza

    Shortbread Bonanza

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    Sweets N Things - mags - Updated May 2026

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