La Maison du Chocolat is setting up a pop-up store in the Printemps department store on boulevard Haussmann (9th arr.). In addition to daily chocolate demonstrations, the 80-square-metre temporary venue, designed as a chocolate “tasting area,” will offer a full range of the company’s gourmet chocolates, pastries, macarons and ice cream, along with hot and [...]

A Paris institution since 1903, Angelina is mostly known for its thick, luscious hot chocolate and elegant pastries. But the celebrated tea room also has its own line of gourmet chocolates, available at the company’s flagship location on rue de Rivoli. Made with single-origin chocolate from Peru, Tanzania, Ecuador and Venezuela, Angelina chocolates incorporate candied [...]

Legendary chef Alain Ducasse, known for his Michelin-starred restaurants, cooking schools and cookbooks, has embarked on another tasty adventure, this time with chocolate. Le Chocolat Alain Ducasse, Paris’s newest chocolate shop, officially opened in February in the heart of the trendy Bastille neighbourhood. Located at the back of a small courtyard at 40, rue de la [...]

Ladurée‘s new chocolate shop in Paris, Les Marquis de Ladurée, quietly opened its doors in December, in the midst of the holiday season. Located just a few steps away from the upscale place Vendôme, the new shop is the company’s first store devoted entirely to chocolate. (Ladurée previously operated a small chocolate shop next door [...]

Renowned Breton chocolatier and caramel maker Henri Le Roux has just opened his first shop in Paris. Located on rue de Bourbon le Château, in the heart of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district, the new store offers Monsieur Le Roux’s famous salted butter caramels, fabulous ganaches and pralines, single-origin chocolate bars, fruit jellies, wonderful marrons glacés (glaced [...]

Chocolatier Hubert Masse’s work with chocolate has taken him around the world. As a youngster, he spent four years in Guatemala, where he was first introduced to chocolate while working with some Swiss chocolatiers who were friends of the family. He returned to France for some formal training, and then he was off to London, [...]

This family-run artisanal chocolate shop was founded by Gilbert Benoit in Angers in 1975. Monsieur Benoît worked as a boulanger-pâtissier for ten years before decided to devote himself to making chocolate full-time. Today, his children, son Dominique and daughters Véronique and Anne-Françoise, run Benoit Chocolats shops in Lille, Angers and Paris. The company’s traditional ganaches, [...]

Hugues Pouget and Sylvain Blanc opened their ultra-modern luxury chocolate shop and pâtisserie on the Left Bank in March 2010. In very atypical fashion the pastries are displayed in glass cases like expensive jewels and the chocolates are sold in Moleskine notebook-type boxes. But that’s not all — the displays feature wine recommendations to accompany [...]

Fresh hand-made chocolates in the heart of Belleville. L’Artisan Chocolatier 102, rue de Belleville, 75020 Paris Tel. +33 (0)1 46 36 67 60 Métro: Pyrénées

Prior to opening Sucrécacao in 1999, master pastry chef and chocolatier James Berthier worked with some of the top names in the French culinary world, including Pascal Niau, Peltier, Le Fouquet’s, Lapérouse and l’Hôtel Meurice. Now well-established in his own shop in the 20th arrondissement, he makes artisanal chocolates, fruit jellies, cakes and pastries, ice [...]

Chocolatier Michel Violette makes most of the chocolates in his laboratory just outside of Paris, while Danielle Joseph makes other goodies in-store and manages the boutique on avenue Simon Bolivar. The shop offers more than 60 kinds of chocolates as well as seasonal collections. Passion Chocolat 122, avenue Simon Bolivar, 75019 Paris Tel. +33 (0)1 [...]

Master chocolatier Eric Goldenstein works from his laboratoire just next to his shop on rue Jouffroy d’Abbans in the 17th to create wonderful ganaches and pralines, chocolate sculptures and other sweets that all meet kosher standards. The company has two shops in Paris. Golden Délices (kosher chocolate) 19, rue Jouffroy d’Abbans, 75017 Paris Tel. +33 [...]

Artisan chocolatier Christian Rizzotto’s hand-crafted chocolates rival those of the most famous names in French chocolate. In his chocolate shop located in the Batignolles district, Monsieur Rizzotto likes to experiment to come up with flavour combinations that work perfectly. For example, there’s his basil-, mint- or tarragon-infused ganaches, or those incorporating fresh fruits like black [...]

This shop makes delicious hand-made chocolate, macarons and other confections that have won numerous awards over the years. It received the Grand Prix du Chocolat de la Ville de Paris in 2008 and was recognized as one of the best chocolate shops in France in 2009 and 2010 by the Club des Croqueurs de Chocolat. [...]

A marvel of a chocolaterie-confiserie with its gorgeous late 19th-century décor, Au Bonbon Royal has a loyal following among locals. The store itself was originally a gourmet grocers specialising in coffee, tea and spices before being transformed into sweets shop. Owner and chocolatier Philippe Ploquin took over the business in 1992. His artisanal chocolates are [...]