15 stores · curated ORBIS register
Brazil grows cacao and, increasingly, finishes it at home as single-origin bars that taste of where the beans grew. Q Chocolate roasts Brazilian bean-to-bar chocolate and cacao bars in Rio de Janeiro. De Mendes Chocolates grinds single-origin Amazonian bean-to-bar chocolate. Dengo Chocolates makes artisanal Brazilian chocolate in São Paulo.
Rio de Janeiro
Q Chocolate is a Brazilian bean-to-bar chocolatier with a Rio de Janeiro boutique. The range centers on cacao-forward bars and chocolate made to highlight Brazilian origin and flavor.
Best for Brazilian bean-to-bar chocolate and cacao bars
São Paulo
At Av. Brig. Faria Lima 196, Pinheiros, São Paulo, Dengo Chocolates is an evidence-verified current door for artisanal brazilian chocolate.
Best for Artisanal Brazilian chocolate
Funcionarios
Avellan works from recipes handed down by Gilda Gazzinelli, some six decades old, turning out empadas, coxinhas, chocolates and tarts at its Funcionarios corner shop since 1990. Now run by her twin grandsons Pedro and Julio, it also serves regional lunch plates and a Friday feijoada.
Best for Minas savoury pastries and sweets
Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Started in Canela in 1982 and based in Gramado since 2001, Caracol makes chocolate from the bean using only cocoa butter and milk fat, with no hydrogenated fats. The company describes itself as the region's first chocolate manufacturer and sells bars, bonbons and gift boxes.
Best for Bean-to-bar Serra Gaúcha chocolate
Av. José Bento Ribeiro Dantas (Rua das Pedras area), Armação dos Búzios, RJ
A Búzios creperia founded around 1990 and at the same address for more than 30 years, part of the Rua das Pedras nightlife. It serves crepes alongside its own branded chocolates and products.
Best for Crepes, house chocolates and Búzios nightlife institution
Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
In business for over four decades, Chocolate Gramadense produces bonbons, dragées and gift boxes from cacao grown on its own farms in a European-equipped Gramado factory. Its stores include a make-your-own-chocolate experience on the production line.
Best for Bonbons and make-your-own chocolate
Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
A family chocolatier founded in Gramado in 1976, Lugano makes truffles, bonbons and higher-cocoa bars and pours hot chocolate in its café-boutiques. Its production and flagship shops sit in the Serra Gaúcha town.
Best for Handcrafted truffles and bonbons
Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
One of Gramado's earliest chocolate makers with more than forty years of trade, Planalto turns out bars in varied cocoa percentages, dragées, figurines and diet and zero-lactose lines. The homemade recipes are sold through its town shops and online store.
Best for Homemade chocolate bars and figurines
Pina, Recife, Pernambuco
Cia do Cacau describes itself as the first fine-chocolate factory in Pernambuco. It produces and sells its own chocolates and bonbons from Rua Santos Leite 727, Galpao 2, in the Pina district of Recife.
Best for Pernambuco-made fine chocolates and bonbons
Serra
Cynthia Geo's confectionery, open since 2006 in the Serra district, works Belgian chocolate into truffles, cakes and fine pastries made without preservatives. The kitchen turns out both sweet and savoury items and has collected competition prizes for its handmade chocolates.
Best for Belgian-chocolate truffles and cakes
Belém, Pará
De Mendes is a bean-to-bar chocolatier working exclusively with native Amazonian cacao, which it researches directly. It ranks among Belem's most celebrated artisan chocolate makers.
Best for Single-origin Amazonian bean-to-bar chocolate
De Mendes Chocolates is a bean-to-bar maker founded by the chocolatier César De Mendes, who works with native cacao from the Amazon. The company describes its ingredients as tradition and history and as the culture of forest peoples. Social and environmental integrity complete the recipe for a chocolate with an Amazonian terroir. De Mendes was born in Macapá, capital of the state of Amapá, to a quilombola mother and a riverside father, with Jewish and Moroccan ancestry. He moved with his family to Belém as a child, and his first memories of chocolate come from that city. His grandmother and mother made cacao juice and chocolate from fruit they picked themselves. Bars in the Povos da Floresta line carry the names of their communities, such as the Paiter Suruí 70% cacau bar. Other pieces pair Pará nuts with cupulate, a 70% cupuaçu preparation, or with 60% cacao chocolate and a sprinkle of flor de sal. One bonbon combines chocolate with Apuí coffee. Each bar is presented as neutralising one day of the buyer's greenhouse gas emissions. The company gives its address as Rua Segunda in Colônia Chicano, Santa Bárbara do Pará, in the state of Pará.
Sion (Rua Pium-i)
Fany Balabram began making chocolates at home in 1983, opening her first Sion shop in 1989 on Rua Pium-i, still the company's base. The chocolaterie is known across Belo Horizonte for its truffles, bonbons and an award-winning chocolate cake, with further counters at Shopping Ponteio and Patio Savassi.
Best for Chocolates and chocolate cake
Ilha do Combu, Belém, Pará
Dona Nena makes Filha do Combu's chocolate from cacao grown on the riverine Ilha do Combu near Belem. The award-winning brand works bean-to-bar with Amazonian beans.
Best for Ilha do Combu single-origin chocolate bars
Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
A Gramado chocolate maker of some thirty years, Florybal runs several themed stores in town, from a dinosaur-filled factory to boutique cafés. It sells handmade bars, bonbons and gift assortments made at its Floresta district plant.
Best for Themed chocolate shops and gifts
Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Founded in Gramado in 1975 and billed as Brazil's first artisanal chocolate factory, Prawer produces bonbons, bars, dragées, truffles and alfajores. Its online and factory shops carry the full range of filled and dark chocolates.
Best for Artisanal bonbons and dragées
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