Despite the recent truffle kerfuffle, we like Hotel Chocolat. Not only do they make some of the finest cocoa products known to mankind, but they like to send them to us here at Chocablog so we can tell you just how good they really are.

Liquid Chocolat is the name of Hotel Chocolat’s new drinking chocolate. [...]

This is the second ‘nutty’ Côte d’Or bar I have tasted (the Pecan bar being my first) and I have to say I was a little disappointed.

The chocolate is okay I suppose. Milk chocolate, creamy, a little on the sweet side for my tastes, fairly unremarkable but edible enough. The ‘filling’ is just a little, [...]

Some time ago now I compared two brands of milk chocolate - one cheap, the other not so cheap - to see if it were possible to buy a good quality chocolate at bargain basement prices. My tasters unanimously rejected the cheap chocolate, thereby leaving me to conclude that cheap chocs are not worth the [...]

I think I need to stop thinking of Thorntons as a speciality chocolate maker. Or even as a “chocolatier” at all. They’re just another large sweet manufacturer. They’re a public company and their products are mass produced. Their products aren’t bad, but they always seem to be trying a bit too hard to convince you [...]

Picture the scene… It’s a dark and rainy January night and somewhere in a dingy lay-by on the outskirts of Bournville village, a Chocolate Orange and a Crunchie are going at it like rabbits in the back of a white S reg Ford Escort…

Admittedly, it’s not the most pleasant scene to have to picture, [...]