What is the world's best chocolate and where can I buy it online?

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Can't believe nobody's mentioned Hotel Chocolat yet. They're available in some department stores in the UK (I know John Lewis do them) and we recently got a dedicated store in Liverpool. I get my fiancee stuff from there for all special occasions and it's always amazing. Also discovered these little treats over Easter which are divine:

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Salted Caramel Egglets. You just suck on the amazing chocolate till the shell eventually cracks and the gooey salted caramel goodness fills your mouth. Sounds a bit erotic and it probably is!
 
chunk3rvd said:
Can't believe nobody's mentioned Hotel Chocolat yet. They're available in some department stores in the UK (I know John Lewis do them) and we recently got a dedicated store in Liverpool. I get my fiancee stuff from there for all special occasions and it's always amazing. Also discovered these little treats over Easter which are divine:

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Salted Caramel Egglets. You just suck on the amazing chocolate till the shell eventually cracks and the gooey salted caramel goodness fills your mouth. Sounds a bit erotic and it probably is!
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my sister's friend told me about this. I deffo need to stop by next time I'm in Liverpool, which should hopefully be soon enough
 
Yahsper said:
You went to Brussels to try Belgian chocolate and you went to Neuhaus? What a waste.

If you want Belgian chocolates, you have to buy chocolates from a Belgian guy that makes it himself. Neuhaus hasn't been that for many decades, it's a chain.
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One of them. I tried others. But OP can get Neuhaus online. Also, I think the mere fact of something being a chain doesn't mean it's weak. Any particular recommendations?
 
Ah... looking it up on Lindt's various websites, their "Origins" series (single-country, not single-estate) bars are sold in Canada but not the US, or at least not any more. Too bad for me; I like the Ecuador bar more than the regular 70% or 85% bars.
 
I agree with the others, Lindt chocolate is the easiest to get here but I tried Belgium chocolate once and it was amazing. I forgot the brand though.

Other good Swiss chocolate easily accessible here in Canada would be Toblerone.
 
There was a brand called Katie's Real Chocolate that was sold in West Cork, Ireland for a number of years. The chocolates were all pretty good, not all that special, except the white chocolate bar, which was the best white chocolate i've ever had by a million miles, I think it was the Baileys in it. So good.
Anyway I thought it had dissapeared, as it hasn't been in shops for quite a while, but this thread made me check and she sells a limited range online. I'm not certain where she delivers to, but if you like white chocolate, I highly recommend it.
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Link to her store on facebook, Don't know if there is another way too it.
 
chunk3rvd said:
Can't believe nobody's mentioned Hotel Chocolat yet. They're available in some department stores in the UK (I know John Lewis do them) and we recently got a dedicated store in Liverpool. I get my fiancee stuff from there for all special occasions and it's always amazing. Also discovered these little treats over Easter which are divine:

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Salted Caramel Egglets. You just suck on the amazing chocolate till the shell eventually cracks and the gooey salted caramel goodness fills your mouth. Sounds a bit erotic and it probably is!
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I ordered these after seeing your post. They arrived today. I tried one immediately on opening the package, but it was warm and collapsed almost immediately. Wasn't very good. Chilled them and tried another. Much better. You're right about letting them melt in your mouth. After a minute or so the caramel bursts through and makes a nice treat.

I would definitely not consider it a contender for "world's best," though. It is okay. Very small compared to US chocolates (which I generally prefer). One or two make a good dessert. Very expensive to have shipped to the US. Cost me $30 for a pack of eight, and each one is only a little larger than my thumbnail. If they were sold locally for $4 or so I would consider them a good deal.

I've been eating a lot way too much chocolate lately. Besides the $30 for the hotel chocolat caramels, I spent $35 on truffles at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory + $5 for a bar of Guittard Nocturne Extra Dark. The Guittard bar is great and I recommend it as an entry point for people looking for a good-tasting dark chocolate bar. It is 91% cacao but you wouldn't be able to tell without reading the label. Delicious.

I am spacing this stuff out. Now I'm out of extra cash for the month.
 
NotTheGuyYouKill said:
I wanna make it a goal to try some of the best chocolate out there outside of Hershey's at least once in my life. What's the best chocolate (bars) and where can I buy them online? Is there some obscure amazing orgasmic chocolate bar out there with my name on it?
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Not far from where I grew up, bro:

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Super smooth meltaways, great flavors, and a local small business/not a massive chain. Do it. They're amazing. You know me, you can trust my opinion on this.

https://www.bakerscandies.com/
 
if you really want to eat the best chocolate, you HAVE to learn to like dark chocolate (at least 60% cocoa). These taste of REAL chocolate, unlike Hershey bars or the usual supermarket brands that taste more like SUGAR and very, very little chocolate.
 
Ryuelli said:
Literally anything that isn't dark chocolate. Dark Chocolate is terrible.
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Dark chocolate is more chocolate and less other stuff. Milk chocolate is milk, sugar, and chocolate, and probably some other flavorings like vanilla. Dark chocolate is chocolate, sugar, and sometimes vanilla.

A long time ago, I thought Lindt's 85% chocolate was super bitter and gross. Then I got into dark chocolate, and now I like the 85% as an occasional change of pace from the 70% ones I usually eat.

White chocolate is cocoa butter but no cocoa solids. The taste comes from sugar and vanilla, and the cocoa butter provides the texture of chocolate, but, y'know, it doesn't taste at all like chocolate since that comes from cocoa solids.

Switching topics, Trader Joe's Swiss 72% bar (reviewed here) is pretty good!
 
beat said:
Dark chocolate is more chocolate and less other stuff. Milk chocolate is milk, sugar, and chocolate, and probably some other flavorings like vanilla. Dark chocolate is chocolate, sugar, and sometimes vanilla.
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I love a good dark chocolate, but I'm always confused when the sentiment that someone doesn't like dark chocolate is met with the lecture that dark chocolate is more chocolate while milk chocolate is more other stuff.

I don't think that really matters to anyone. It's not like that bit of information, in the unlikely event that they didn't already know, is going to change their minds. It is, very literally, a matter of taste.
 
Check out this place. I don't know for sure if they ship, but my Grandma just got a box of these from some of her friends in Ontario, and it's honestly some of the best chocolate I've ever tasted. The box comes with a card with this website though, which would lead me to believe they deliver.

http://www.newfolio.com/chaos/chocolate/
 
Faiz said:
I love a good dark chocolate, but I'm always confused when the sentiment that someone doesn't like dark chocolate is met with the lecture that dark chocolate is more chocolate while milk chocolate is more other stuff.
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You can get sugar and milk in other ways. But the unique part about milk chocolate is the chocolate, and so why would you take it in such diluted form?
 
As far as standard supermarket commercial chocolate, Cadbury Dairy Milk cannot beaten as far as milk chocolate is concerned; leaps and bounds better than Hershey's.
 
http://www.schakolad.com/

these guys are nice, they at least accomplish the easy online ordering part. Their chocolate is good quality, but I believe the guy is South American, though he claims to have studied with European chocolatiers for 20 years, which sounds like a dream to me, tbh. haha. Wake up...time to go downstairs and eat chocolate with pretty Belgian girls.
 
NotTheGuyYouKill said:
I wanna make it a goal to try some of the best chocolate out there outside of Hershey's at least once in my life. What's the best chocolate (bars) and where can I buy them online? Is there some obscure amazing orgasmic chocolate bar out there with my name on it?
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Dude you don't have to go online.

http://www.rogerschocolates.com

You could tho, but you could just skytrain to Waterfront.

I miss those sigh, Icewine only truly exists in Canada.
 
There's a local place in Pittsburgh called Sarris that I love. Their milk chocolate is so milky creamy delicious. I also recommend the Malted Milk Balls (amazing Whoppers), Pecanettes (pralines/turtles), chocolate Pretzels, or Peanut Butter Meltaways.
 
beat said:
You can get sugar and milk in other ways. But the unique part about milk chocolate is the chocolate, and so why would you take it in such diluted form?
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Are you really serious? If you are, why would you even eat 75% dark chocolate? After all, you could get your sugar differently, so why get your chocolate in such a dilluted form? I must be missing something here...
 
As Swiss I would say that outside of the excellence line isn't that great, I really don't like their LIndor stuff. Camille Bloch, Cailler, Frey also make good chocolat if you're looking for the big chains, else there are a lot local stores that do mostly pralines.
 
H2Yo said:
As far as standard supermarket commercial chocolate, Cadbury Dairy Milk cannot beaten as far as milk chocolate is concerned; leaps and bounds better than Hershey's.
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I Disagree 100%.In the U.S Cadbury is manufactured by Hershey, and the UK version of Dairy Milk is not even real chocolate, it is chocolate like product, unlike Hershey. The U.S version uses a different ingredients because the UK version can't be sold as chocolate in the U.S, because it isn't.
 
Surprised it hasn't been mentioned.....

Ritter Sport is pretty amazing. Up there with Lindt.

Alpine Milk Chocolate and Milk Choc With Almonds are amazing.
 
beat said:
You can get sugar and milk in other ways. But the unique part about milk chocolate is the chocolate, and so why would you take it in such diluted form?
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Do you turn up your nose at people who put cream in their coffee?
 
Scarphace said:
These are so good

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To a degree, I think it's what you grow up liking, but I do probably like Cadburys more than any European chocolate.

I did recently get a huge bar of Lindt from duty-free in Paris, and it really wan't that great. Smooth and sickly, but not really like chocolate. Not as nice as the Lindt red balls I get in the UK.

Do you think recipies change to meet tastes in different countries? As in, a bar of Dairy Milk in the UK tastes different to in the US.
 
beat said:
You can get sugar and milk in other ways. But the unique part about milk chocolate is the chocolate, and so why would you take it in such diluted form?
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Because, like I said, it's a matter of TASTE. If that much chocolate in the mix doesn't TASTE good to that person, the fact that dark chocolate is "more pure" means absolutely nothing. The fact that you can "get milk and sugar in other ways" means absolutely nothing, because no one eats milk chocolate to "get milk and sugar". They eat milk chocolate because they like milk chocolate.

I like mojitos. They contain rum, mint, club soda, and sugar.

I can get soda and sugar in other ways too. And overall there's really not much rum in a Mojito. But if you asked me to drink a glass of rum, I'd say no thanks, because I fucking hate the way straight rum tastes. It's about the whole package, and breaking it down to the individual components is kinda asinine.
 
I'm eating this right now based from a few gaffers above:

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Not sure what to think, although I already finished half of the bar.
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RayStorm said:
Are you really serious? If you are, why would you even eat 75% dark chocolate? After all, you could get your sugar differently, so why get your chocolate in such a dilluted form? I must be missing something here...
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I find at around 70% there's just enough sugar to take the edge of the bitterness.

I actually have eaten Lindt's 99% bar once or twice just to try it, but at that level it's a little too bitter for me.

Crunched said:
Do you turn up your nose at people who put cream in their coffee?
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No, because I'm a (sort of) chocolate snob but not a coffee snob. Hell, most of the time when I have coffee it's either Vietnamese iced coffee or an iced mocha.
 
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