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Belgian chocolatiers treat the praline as a building material; the results range from art deco to beetroot. Pierre Marcolini sculpts bean-to-bar chocolate éclats from a Brussels haute chocolaterie. Mary Chocolatier rolls truffles by hand with old-world luxury and art deco branding. The Chocolate Line dares adventurous flavours from beetroot praline to pea and mint with live chocolate-making demos. Let the bonbon melt rather than chewing it; the finish is where the maker shows. A box travels well; Belgian customs has never objected to one leaving the country.
Appelmansstraat 5, Antwerp (near the Diamond district)
This family-owned chocolatier and patisserie near Antwerp's diamond district has handcrafted pralines, macarons, cakes and desserts for generations. An on-site tearoom lets you linger over them.
Best for Handmade Belgian chocolates, pralines and patisserie
Sint-Jorisstraat 83B, Beernem (a separate town roughly 15km from Bruges, not Bruges' Old Town as originally listed)
Pralifino hand-crafts small-format pralines of just 8-10 grams each, made with 100% cocoa butter and finely selected fillings, including sugar-free and a lactose-free chickpea-based milk chocolate. Founded in 2006 in a converted garage in Beernem, the atelier sources cocoa through the Cocoa Horizons program supporting farmer training.
Best for 8–10 gram pralines, sugar-free chocolate and lactose-free options
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The Chocolate Line is a Bruges house for adventurous chocolate flavours (beetroot praline, pea and mint), live chocolate-making demos. Founded in 1992; Made in Belgium.
Best for Adventurous chocolate flavours (beetroot praline, pea and mint), live chocolate-making demos
Quai aux Briques / Online
Atelier Sainte Catherine is a Brussels house for bean-to-bar chocolate, single origin varieties. Bean-to-bar production in Brussels.
Best for Bean-to-bar chocolate, single origin varieties
Place du Grand Sablon 11, Brussels
Mary has handcrafted pralines in Brussels since 1919, founded by Mary Delluc and named Patented Supplier to the Belgian Court in 1942. Signature collections include Jardin Secret, La Médaille and Eden, built around flavour, aroma and texture harmony.
Best for Jardin Secret, La Médaille and Eden praline collections
Rue de l'Etuve / Online
Elisabeth is a Brussels house for speculoos bonbons, waffle pralines, handmade small-batch chocolate combining Belgian culinary traditions.
Best for Speculoos bonbons, waffle pralines, handmade small-batch chocolate combining Belgian culinary traditions
Koekelberg, Brussels
Frédéric Blondeel roasts cacao and makes chocolate at an atelier in Koekelberg, Brussels. His range includes single-origin tablets and pralines, with chocolate-coated biscuits among the other creations. The Rue de Ganshoren shop also serves coffee and hot chocolate, alongside its ice-cream offer.
Best for Bean-to-bar chocolate, pralines and a coffee or ice-cream stop
Frédéric Blondeel combines cacao roasting with chocolate making at his Koekelberg address in Brussels. Coming from a family of coffee roasters, he applied that roasting background to cacao, working with beans from South Asia and Latin America. The process begins before the chocolate is shaped into a finished gift.
His account describes low-temperature roasting adjusted to the character of the beans. Single-origin tablets sit alongside pralines and chocolate-coated biscuits, with ingredients such as Japanese tea or Sicilian nuts used in different creations. The origin of a cacao bean and the place where the chocolate is made therefore describe separate parts of the product.
The shop at Rue de Ganshoren 39 also has a coffee and ice-cream bar. Hot chocolate offers another way to try the maker's work without choosing a boxed assortment first. The ice creams are made by Blondeel, with several flavours listed by the shop. Choose between a gift to take away and something to enjoy at the bar, checking the actual assortment rather than assuming every flavour is always available.
Grand Place 21-22, Brussels
Godiva's Grand Place boutique is part of a chocolate house that began in Brussels in 1926. The brand's own history dates the opening on the square to 1958, distinct from the founding of Pierre Draps Sr.'s workshop. Its chocolate range includes pralines and truffles, with gift boxes for sharing or taking home.
Best for Chocolate gifts from a Brussels house with a Grand Place history
Godiva was founded in Brussels in 1926, when the Belgian chocolatier Pierre Draps Sr. began handcrafting chocolates in his workshop there. The house takes its name and its emblem from the tale of Lady Godiva, and it has kept the Belgian origin as the centre of its identity through a century of trading.
What the house makes its case on is sourcing and finish: cacao, nuts, fruits and spices selected specifically, and a preoccupation with the physical qualities of the finished piece, the snap of the shell and the texture of a ganache. Its Masterpiece line is the one most often reached for, and the boxed tins and calendars are built to be kept after the chocolates are gone.
Be clear-eyed about what this is. Godiva is a global house rather than a small maker, and its chocolate is widely available. The Brussels connection is genuine and the century of practice is real; the rarity is not.
City centre, near Bozar
A Brussels chocolatier working near the Bozar arts centre, Gerbaud makes pralines and ganaches without added sugar, pairing dark couverture with candied Mediterranean fruits, nuts and spices. The shop runs tastings and workshops and was voted the city's best chocolatier in 2021.
Best for Brussels pralines pairing dark chocolate with fruit, nuts and spices.
Rue au Beurre 31, Brussels
The original Brussels waffle — light, crispy, rectangular, served warm with powdered sugar, whipped cream, or chocolate. Made fresh at the Rue au Beurre shop since 1829.
Best for Light, crispy, rectangular, served warm with powdered sugar, whipped cream, or chocolate
Grand Place / Online
Mary Chocolatier is a Brussels house for hand-rolled truffles, old-world luxury chocolate, art deco branding. Founded in 1919; Made in Belgium.
Best for Hand-rolled truffles, old-world luxury chocolate, art deco branding
Anderlecht / Online
MIKE&BECKY is a Brussels house for direct trade, small-batch chocolate, transparent workshop, contemporary craft chocolate. Made in Brussels in small batches.
Best for Direct trade, small-batch chocolate, transparent workshop, contemporary craft chocolate
Brussels
Pierre Marcolini makes chocolates, pralines, biscuits and seasonal gift boxes with strong attention to cacao sourcing. The Brussels house is especially useful for tasting single-origin bars beside filled confections. Established in 1995, the house also offers truffles and macarons; praline ingredients include Piedmont hazelnuts and Moroccan pink berries.
Best for Bean-to-bar sculptural chocolate éclats from the Brussels haute chocolaterie
Mageleinstraat 46
Stijn and Janique Vandenbouhede make pralines, truffles and orangettes by hand in the centre of Ghent, within sight of the city's three medieval towers. The counter runs to marzipan, mendiants, speculaas and chocolate bars alongside the filled chocolates.
Best for Artisan pralines and marzipan
Namur / Belgium
A certified artisan chocolatier in Vedrin near Namur, Alain Bossiroy makes pralines, ganaches, cuberdons, manons and salted-caramel chocolates. Seasonal creations for Saint-Nicolas, Easter and other holidays, plus corporate gifts, can be ordered through the online boutique.
Best for Chocolate, chocolatier, pralines, food
Namur / Belgium
Run by designer-turned-chocolatier Louise, Belle & Chocolat is a Namur workshop-boutique making organic, fair-trade chocolates in moulds she cuts herself at the local Fablab. Pralines, rochers, tablets and subscriptions sell in the Rue des Carmes shop and an e-boutique, and it was named a Gault & Millau 2024 discovery.
Best for Chocolate, chocolatier, pralines, organic
Historic Centre / Online
Carré Noir is a maker in Liège known for high-quality artisan chocolates and fine wines made from exceptional ingredients — essential Walloon know-how.
Best for Artisan chocolates and fine wines from Wallonia
Guillemins, Liège, Belgium
Pépite is a one-woman bean-to-bar chocolaterie on rue de Serbie in Liège's Guillemins quarter, sourcing cacao from agroforestry plantations and building flavor from the bean rather than added sugar. The workshop also runs hands-on chocolate-making sessions alongside its Wednesday-to-Saturday retail hours.
Best for Bean-to-bar chocolate tablets and pralines
Eiermarkt
Dumon is a family chocolatier making fresh pralines in small batches near the Markt, run by the second generation of the Dumon family since 1992. The chocolates are sold loose by weight and kept unrefrigerated for freshness.
Best for Fresh handmade pralines
Waterloo / Belgium
For more than 45 years, Chocolatier Irsi has hand-made pralines, manons, fruit pastes, and marzipan from its shop on Chaussee de Bruxelles in Waterloo. The shop is open Tuesday through Saturday and sells its chocolates only in person from this single location.
Best for Handmade pralines, manons, fruit pastes and marzipan
Namur / Belgium
Rooted in a 1946 Namur chocolaterie, this family business opened La Maison des Desserts as a patisserie and tea room in 1993 and is now run by the third generation from a 17th-century building in the Saint-Loup quarter. Its breads, pastries, chocolates and macarons are sold at the Rue Haute Marcelle shop and for online collection.
Best for Third-generation Namur patisserie and chocolaterie in a 17th-century house
The business traces to 1946, when the founding family opened a chocolaterie on Namur's Rue de Fer; the family itself was made up of professional pastry chefs and chocolatiers, and kept that trade going for decades. In 1993 they expanded into La Maison des Desserts, a patisserie and tea room, without giving up the original chocolate business; the two now operate together under one roof, run today by the third generation.
The current shop sits in a 17th-century building in Namur's historic Saint-Loup quarter, at Rue Haute Marcelle 17, a setting as old as some of the recipes the family still uses. Its range spans all three original trades, boulangerie, patisserie and chocolaterie, producing bread, pastries, chocolates and macarons from the same premises.
The tea room adds a fourth element, serving light meals alongside the baked goods, and the shop takes online orders for collection, closing only Sunday and Monday to keep the rest of the week focused on production.
Leuven, Belgium
Philip Benoit has hand-crafted chocolates at Tartufo on Louis Melsensstraat 14, near Leuven's train station, for roughly 25 years, building the shop's reputation on fresh-butter pralines and truffles rather than mass production. The workshop offers 56 praline varieties and 12 types of truffle, with gift boxes running from five to sixty euros for customers who stop in to pick a personal favorite.
Best for Hand-made pralines and truffles chosen by flavor, not by brand
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