Chocolatiers in Lyon
6 stores · curated ORBIS register
Family chocolate house founded in Lyon in 1953 by Maurice Bernachon, who imported raw cocoa beans to Cours Franklin Roosevelt and roasted them in-house; still known for its Palet d'Or ganache made with Isigny creme fraiche.
Lyon chocolate and coffee-roasting house founded in 1897 by Léon Voisin; its chocolatiers created the Coussin de Lyon — a silk-cushion-shaped confection with kirsch and almond praline — in 1960, inspired by a 17th-century Lyon religious tradition.
Maison Pépin makes pastries and chocolates in its Lyon workshop and sells them from its Lyon boutiques.
Lyon chocolatier-patissier operating since 1905, revived by Richard and Gaelle Seve in 1991; credited with inventing the tarte aux pralines and running Musco, a bean-to-bar chocolate museum since 2017.
Pralines Roses (formerly Saint Jean Delices) is a specialty shop in Old Lyon devoted to pink praline and its own pink-praline nougat made with Label Rouge lavender honey. Its boutique on rue Saint-Jean and online store sell pralines and nougat alongside other Lyon specialities.
Pralus sells single-origin chocolate bars, filled chocolates and the house’s pink praline brioche, the Praluline. Origin notes and cocoa percentage guide bar selection, while the brioche is the distinctive local purchase.