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 … Continue reading Angelina Paris chocolate collection
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 … Continue reading Le Chocolat Alain Ducasse: A bean-to-bar operation
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 … Continue reading Les Marquis de Ladurée
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 … Continue reading Chocolatier and caramel maker Henri Le Roux opens shop in Paris
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, … Continue reading Le Cacaotier
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, … Continue reading Benoit Chocolats
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 … Continue reading Hugo & Victor
