Chocablog readers may not be too familiar with the Tchibo brand, and a glance at their UK website is unlikely to make one think of them as a purveyor of fine chocolate, offering as it does a bizarre assortment of household cleaning equipment, lingerie, office goods and bedlinen.

However, in Germany Tchibo coffee shops are quite [...]

This is another of Hotel Chocolat’s new range that they were kind enough to send us samples of. They also do a Summer Goody Bag which looks very similar.

These bags are quite obviously aimed at women. The bags themselves are designed to look like handbags - although you might get some slightly odd looks walking [...]

Regular chocoholics will all have experienced that painful surge of disappointment when you finally find a high-end chocolate bar or block that’s been marked down to a more affordable level, rush home and excitedly tear open the wrapping only to discover that it has clearly melted and re-set a couple of times in transit, leaving [...]

In a follow up to the Guinness Chocolate bar review I posted recently, I thought I’d offer my opinion on one of my birthday presents.

As you can see, Guinness have produced Milk chocolate truffles ‘enhanced’ with the flavour of Guinness. This statement alone merits a raised eyebrow - after all the question of whether or [...]

Well this is more than a bit of a mouthful.

Hotel Chocolat was kind enough to send some more samples for review. We’ve reviewed a couple of Hotel Chocolat products in the past and loved them, so this has a lot to live up to.

And that’s going to be quite a tough challenge, given this is [...]