Chocolate Shops – In Search of the World’s Best Chocolate

Chocolate Shop

Whether dark or milk chocolate, there are still some chocolates considered to be the best in the world, usually by chocolatiers, chocolate experts and critics. Below are some of the chocolates held to be the standard of high-end chocolate (Chocolate Shops).

Chocolate Shops from Italy
The chocolate brand Amedei was founded in 1990 by master chocolate makers Alessio Tessieri and his sister, Cecilia Tessieri.

French Chocolate Shops
French chocolate remains to be one of the finest in the world, mainly because of the French government’s strict standards when it comes to manufacturing chocolate. A lot of French chocolates contain pure ingredients well above the minimum cocoa liquor standards. The best French dark chocolate and bonbons contain up to 80% pure cocoa liquor, giving it the dark, rich and luxurious taste that French chocolate is known for.

Belgian Chocolate Shops
Belgian chocolate is widely considered to be the standard of gourmet chocolate in the world. Excellent quality ingredients and traditional manufacturing techniques set Belgian chocolates apart from the rest of mass-produced chocolates that are widely distributed in the world. Chocolate only became popular in Belgium in the 18th century.

Chocolate Shops – Belgian Chocolate

Famous Belgian chocolate has pure cocoa flavour because no vegetable shortening is used. Most tourists know that Belgium is a chocolate paradise. Belgium produces 172,000 tons of chocolate per year in over 2,130 chocolate shops.

Internationally known Belgian chocolates brands are: Galler, Guylian, Godiva, Leonidas, Marcolini, Neuhaus. It’s good chocolate but if you want something exceptional and typically from Antwerp – read on.

Burie — Lieven Burie of the Burie chocolate shops took over when his father died suddenly.

Del Rey — No superlative can describe the chocolate combinations they have. Del-Rey is more then a chocolate maker. We are lucky he choose chocolate and pastries.

Goossens — Goossens made a giant white sugar bean for the birth of the crown princes of Belgium. It was not just the taste – the chocolates are so beautifully crafted it’s a pity to eat them.

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