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    Hotel Chocolat - Inside Angus's emporium - stout fellow

    Hotel Chocolat

    (11 reviews)

    £££

    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.

    Sweet Williams Fudge Shop

    Sweet Williams Fudge Shop

    (8 reviews)

    ££

    I love fudge. Thus, although I've only been here twice (and the first of these times was so longer…read moreago I barely even remember it), I love Sweet William's. I also have little to go on, as the recent time I did head here was in a desperate need for a sugary boost, and I probably wasn't the most discerning of customers! That said, my super sweet coconut ice was gooey and delicious. The price was reasonable too. And they had dozens of fudge types on offer, though I think you can't really beat cornish cream, Ooo though I do like a bit of rum and raisin... Some of the fudge looked fresher than the rest - they didn't seem very busy, and I guess they only are during tourist season/Saturdays, so maybe it dries out a bit. The other weird thing was the totally out of place shopkeeper - okay perhaps physically (if we're being very judgemental and generalising here) he resembled a jolly cornish fudge seller, but his utter lack of banter and mildly disdainful expression made the whole experience a bit hysterical!

    Mmm. There's nothing like the smell of fudge. My goodness. Unique and mouth-watering trays are…read morelined up in the windows and when I opened the door, the smell was equally tantalising. Behind the counter, there were minty, fruity and nutty concoctions of fudge, although the shopkeeper said his best seller is the toffee crumble. Done and done. Sweet Williams also has pick and mix sweets at 90p per 100grams, and some pre-packaged candies and fudges. A small freezer keeps a few selections of ice creams and frozen snacks as well, although buying anything other than the source of the delicious smell would just be silliness. Service is very friendly, and if you're having trouble deciding, the shopkeeper can put together a small sample of your top picks for you. I definitely recommend checking it out if you haven't indulged enough over the holidays.

    Thorntons - candy - Updated May 2026

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