Paris now has its very own chocolate museum. Choco-Story, “the gourmet chocolate museum,” officially opened on February 5.
The museum retraces the 4,000-year-old history of cocoa through displays and artefacts and explains chocolate-making techniques with demonstrations and tastings.
Ironically, Paris’s first chocolate museum is privately owned and operated by the Van Belle family of Belgian chocolatiers.
The first Choco-Story museum was opened in Bruges in 2004 and the second in Prague in 2008.
Choco-Story – Le Musée Gourmand du Chocolat
28, Boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle, 75010 Paris
Tel. +33 (0)1 42 29 68 60
Fax +33 (0)1 42 29 65 08
Métro: Bonne Nouvelle or Strasbourg Saint-DenisHours: Mon. to Sun. 10 a.m to 6 p.m.
Admission: adults 9 €, children 6 €Web site : www.museeduchocolat.fr
E-mail : info@museeduchocolat.fr
Hello,
I visited Paris 14 years ago and bought a lot of chocolate at a wonderful little store, Jardi et Gourmand. (I may have misspelled that.) What happened to it? A friend is going to Paris in two weeks and I would like to recommend that store or one similar.
Thanks.