Storath Chocolatier
Hidden GemBamberg
A Bamberg chocolatier trading as 'Der kleine Luxus', making handcrafted pralines and chocolate. The independent maker sells from its own boutique and online shop.
Best for Handmade pralines and chocolate
Chocolate of Germany
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German chocolate is a family trade; one house dates its pralines to 1759 and still scoops them by hand. Krönner has run as a family chocolatier since 1759, hand-scooping pralines and Baumkuchen. Elly Seidl molds seasonal chocolates in Munich from Barbara Grathwohl's 1918 confectionery. Chocolaterie Jan von Werth makes its pralines by hand at Alter Markt in the old town. The name on the box is the whole review; taste the ganache before the shell, since the filling is where the craft lives.
Visit official site ↗Rausch Schokoladenhaus
Hidden GemGendarmenmarkt, Mitte
The Rausch family has made chocolate in Berlin since 1918, and its three-storey Schokoladenhaus on Gendarmenmarkt presents more than 200 pralines, truffles and bars built from single-origin cacao. Now in its fifth generation, the house sources beans directly from growers under a 'tree to door' approach.
Best for Pralines and single-origin chocolate
Visit official site ↗Mitte
A Hannover chocolate maker on Rathenaustraße turning out handmade truffles and pralines, including a Herrenhausen Collection developed with the head of the city's baroque gardens. Locals treat the confiserie as a fixture of the town centre.
Best for Handmade truffles and pralines
Visit official site ↗Mulheim (Wallstrasse)
Master pastry chef Sabine Bonn opened this small chocolate manufaktur in Cologne-Mulheim in 2016, making nougat and marzipan pralines, truffles, dragees and custom cakes by hand. Production runs in small batches from premium Belgian, French and regional German couverture, with chocolate and baking courses on offer.
Best for Handmade pralines and custom cakes
Visit official site ↗Weidacher Strasse, Durach, Allgaeu
Founded by Jacky and Patrick Kretzer in Durach, lafiya food sells natural, unsulphured dried fruit with no added sugar, alongside organic chocolate and nuts. The range includes dried mango, kiwi and pineapple, offered through their online shop and stockists across the Allgaeu.
Best for Unsulphured dried fruit and organic snacks
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Krämerbrücke, Erfurt
Founded by chocolatier Alex Kühn, this bean-to-bar manufactory presses tablets, truffles and nougat spreads from naturally sourced cacao, its illustrated packaging drawn by Kühn himself. The Krämerbrücke shop and neighbouring Eiskrämer add hand-churned ice cream and drinking chocolate to the range.
Best for Bean-to-bar chocolate, pralines and hand-churned ice cream
Visit official site ↗Altstadt, Frankfurt
A Frankfurt chocolaterie carrying chocolate from white to 100 percent cocoa, house pralines and truffles, and liquorice alongside imported almonds, nougat and mint. The shelves also hold vinegars, oils and vegan sweets.
Best for Fine chocolate and pralines
Visit official site ↗Freiburg im Breisgau
A family confectionery manufactory established over fifty years ago and now run by Rafael Mutter in the second generation. The workshop turns out handmade chocolates and confections sold through its own shop and select stockists around Freiburg.
Best for Handmade chocolates and confections
Visit official site ↗Kontorhausviertel (Meßberg)
Hamburg's interactive chocolate house at Meßberg 1 in the Kontorhaus quarter pairs guided tastings with a shop of bars, filled chocolates and cosmetics. The store is open daily and needs no ticket to browse.
Best for Chocolate bars and gifts
Visit official site ↗Hamburg (several branches)
A Hamburg confectioner making handcrafted pralines, truffles, nougat and marzipan, with vegan lines and custom orders. Chocolate is produced by the maker and sold across several city shops.
Best for Handcrafted pralines, truffles, nougat, and marzipan, with vegan lines and custom orders
Visit official site ↗Speicherstadt
Speicher & Consorten has made spice blends, chocolate, coffee and tea in Hamburg's Speicherstadt since 2009, drawing on the district's historic trading role. Products such as the Käpt'n Pfeffer blend ship in reusable sacks like the Hamburger Seesack and Kapitänskiste.
Best for Speicherstadt-made spice, tea, coffee and chocolate gift sets
Speicher & Consorten set up shop in Hamburg's Speicherstadt in 2009, drawing on the district's own trading history — a UNESCO World Heritage warehouse quarter built from 1881 to store and refine coffee, tea, cocoa and spices arriving by ship from around the world. The company keeps that same brief today, producing hand-roasted coffee in small batches on traditional drum roasters, selecting and blending teas, hand-scooping chocolate, and mixing spice blends such as Käpt'n Pfeffer, all sourced from what it describes as the world's best growing regions and made in small Hamburg manufactories rather than outsourced at scale. Its gift-set format leans into the Speicherstadt's own maritime past: sacks and wooden crates such as the Hamburger Seesack, Kapitänskiste and Grillsack package a curated run of products — coffee, tea, chocolate, spice, salt — the way a ship's stores might once have been packed for a long voyage. Products are sold through the company's online shop and a handful of physical retail points around Hamburg, with corporate gifting and customizable box options extending the same format to business orders. The company's identity stays tied to one neighborhood's trading heritage rather than a generic gourmet-gift catalogue.
Visit official site ↗Karlsruhe
Pralina hand-fills pralines and truffles in its Karlsruhe boutique, working seasonal flavors alongside a standing house selection. The shop also carries a delicatessen range, from preserves to specialty teas, chosen to sit alongside the chocolate counter.
Best for Hand-filled seasonal pralines and truffles alongside a delicatessen of preserves and specialty
Visit official site ↗Achterwehr, near Kiel, Germany
Lydia's organic patisserie near Kiel hand-makes pralines, cheesecakes, and delicate tortes using certified organic (EU Bio) and Fair Trade ingredients, and teaches the same techniques through its own Pralinen-Schule video courses. The workshop and online shop, at Neukoppel 24 in Achterwehr, also sells the chocolate, baking tools, and praline molds behind its confections.
Best for Organic pralines and pastries
Visit official site ↗Konstanz, Germany
Mior Chocolate works exclusively with Criollo Arriba cacao, turning it into a tight lineup of eight bars spanning 63 to 81 percent dark through milk, white, and unsweetened styles. Every bar is made in the maker's own workshop on Lake Constance rather than bought in and repackaged.
Best for Single-origin Criollo Arriba chocolate bars
Hüxstraße 96, Lübeck Altstadt
Kerstin Kriese, a certified Konditormeisterin (pastry master), runs Abessa from a shopfront on Hüxstraße, turning out finely made macarons and chocolates alongside handmade pastries that have built a following well beyond Lübeck. Her yeast rolls, baked in small batches, have reached near-cult status among regulars who queue before the Tuesday-to-Saturday shop opens.
Best for Artisan macarons and chocolates
Visit official site ↗Breite Straße 9, Lübeck Altstadt
Working from a centuries-old merchant house on Breite Straße, Evers & Tochter hand-pours chocolates and candies edible flowers grown in their own garden, drying and processing each blossom individually before folding it into pralines, sugars, and salts. The small workshop also makes calissons, the almond-and-candied-fruit sweet more commonly associated with Provence, produced here on a made-to-order basis.
Best for Handmade chocolates and candied flowers
Visit official site ↗Breite Straße, Lübeck Altstadt
Founded in 1806 on Breite Straße, Niederegger has shaped Lübeck's identity as the marzipan capital of Germany, working the city's traditional recipe of finely ground almonds and sugar into loaves, marzipan potatoes, and chocolate-dipped confections. The flagship building houses a café and a marzipan museum where confectioners hand-shape the paste using techniques largely unchanged for two centuries.
Best for Lübeck marzipan gifts
Visit official site ↗Altstadt (Haspelgasse)
Fridolin Knösel opened this old-town café in 1863 and created the Heidelberger Studentenkuß, a chocolate praline of nougat, truffle and hazelnut once passed discreetly between courting students. The shop on Haspelgasse near the Heiliggeistkirche still makes the pralines by hand several times a week and sells them alongside the café.
Best for The original Studentenkuß chocolate praline
Visit official site ↗Innere Altstadt
A Dresden chocolate house near the Frauenkirche that curates bean-to-bar bars from chocolatiers worldwide and makes its own pralines and truffles. Several Schokoladenkontore, a chocolate café and a small chocolate museum sit across the old town.
Best for Curated bean-to-bar chocolate and pralines
Visit official site ↗Altstadt (Alter Markt)
This artisan chocolaterie makes its pralines by hand at Alter Markt 46-48, in a building from 1584 that the shop describes as the former oldest pharmacy in Cologne opposite the town hall. The counter carries house lines such as the Picasso pralines plus bars, drinking chocolate and workshops, using fair-trade cocoa from Tanzania and Belgium.
Best for Handmade pralines in the old town
Visit official site ↗Altstadt, Munich
Elly Seidl is a Munich chocolate business whose history began with Barbara Grathwohl in 1918. Pralines and chocolate are central to its range, alongside cakes and other sweet gifts. The Rambold family took over the business after leasing it in the 1970s, with the next generation continuing its production and retail work.
Best for Filled chocolates and praline gift assortments
Elly Seidl's Munich confectionery history began with Barbara Grathwohl in 1918. The business name combined her daughter Elly's name with Seidl, Grathwohl's maiden name. Her daughter took over in 1928, giving the familiar shop name a family story that is more precise than assuming it was the founder's own name.
Helmut and Beatrice Rambold leased the business in the early 1970s and acquired it in 2000. Their sons Maximilian and Oliver later took responsibility for its commercial and production work. Pralines and chocolate are central to the range. Cakes and other baked gifts also appear in the company's account.
In a 2018 Süddeutsche Zeitung interview, Maximilian described the months of testing that could go into developing a new praline. The report also visited the Maffeistraße shop and discussed filled chocolates, including champagne truffles and nougat. For a gift, choose the fillings with the recipient in mind and ask which contain alcohol. An assortment of pralines is a different purchase from a single chocolate bar or a cake for a particular occasion.
Visit official site ↗Café Breuer
Hidden GemBonn-Oberkassel
Café Breuer has run a Konditorei and confiserie in Bonn-Oberkassel since 1959, sending cakes, handmade pralines and stone-oven breads to the counter straight from its adjoining manufactory. The family patisserie makes its full range of pastry and chocolate work in house rather than buying it in.
Best for Cakes, pralines and stone-oven bread
Visit official site ↗Munster / Germany / Online
Cafe Schoko roasts cocoa beans from single origins like Peru, Colombia and Madagascar in Munster and stone-grinds them into bean-to-bar chocolate. Alongside origin bars it makes filled bars with torrone, fig and ricotta or passion fruit and chilli, all sold in-store and shipped from its online shop.
Best for Chocolate, bean-to-bar, cacao roasting, artisan
Visit official site ↗Markt, Cochem
A delicatessen on Cochem's market square at Markt 7, stocking spices, vinegars, oils, pestos, and preserves from small producers. The shelves also carry chocolates, truffles, mustards, and table accessories for gifting.
Best for Curated gourmet foods and gifts
Visit official site ↗Diller Schneeballentraeume
Hidden GemHofbronnengasse 16 and other Old Town locations, 91541 Rothenburg ob der Tauber
This bakery devotes itself to Schneeballen, the roughly 300-year-old Rothenburg shortcrust pastry deep-fried and dusted with sugar. Dozens of versions range from cinnamon and marzipan to nougat, chocolate and coconut, with international shipping available.
Best for Rothenburg Schneeballen pastries in many flavours
Visit official site ↗Passau / Germany
For over 45 years Greindl has run confiserie cafes across Passau's old town, handmaking pralines, cupcakes, Lebkuchen and Passauer Domspitzen. Its online store ships the sweets nationwide, with chilled summer delivery to keep the chocolate fresh.
Best for Confiserie, pralines, cupcakes, patisserie
Visit official site ↗Hachez Chocolade
Hidden GemCity Centre
A Bremen chocolate house founded in 1890 by Joseph Emile Hachez, making bean-to-bar chocolate and pralines in the classic cocoa-forward Bremen style. Its city shop and café, the Hachez Diele, sells bars, confections and Bremen-themed gift boxes.
Best for Bremen chocolate and pralines
Visit official site ↗Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria
Krönner has run as a family chocolatier since 1759, now in its ninth generation across shops in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Straubing and Murnau. Its handmade range includes Baumkuchen, pralines and sugar-free and vegan chocolate.
Best for Hand-scooped pralines and Baumkuchen from a ninth-generation chocolatier
Krönner has operated as a family confiserie and chocolatier since 1759, and the business is now run by the ninth generation of the Krönner family, with current contacts Franz Krönner and Antonia Pfefferle listed on the company's own site. The main shop sits at Achenfeldstrasse 1 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, with sister locations extending the family business to Straubing and Murnau, all in Bavaria. Production is described as handwerkliche Fertigung, artisanal, handworked production, using high-quality natural ingredients and deliberately avoiding additives and preservatives; the range includes sugar-free chocolate and vegan options alongside the traditional line. Signature items include Baumkuchen, described on the site as a soft butter biscuit baked in individual layers, along with hand-made pralines and truffles. The family's history has drawn outside attention too: a Bavarian public-television documentary, 'Unter unserem Himmel: Vom Lebzelter zum Chocolatier' ('From Gingerbread Baker to Chocolatier'), covered the business's transition across generations. Across nearly 270 years and nine generations, Krönner frames itself less as a shop that happens to be old and more as a family craft that has adapted, from Lebzelter to chocolatier, while staying in the same hands.
Visit official site ↗Marburg / Germany
La Manufacture d'Anouk hand-makes organic chocolates and pralines in Marburg's old town, certified under EU organic code DE-Öko-064. Its case rotates daily through more than 70 cakes and tortes, including a signature Death by Chocolate.
Best for La Manufacture d'Anouk hand-makes organic chocolates and pralines in Marburg's old town
On Barfüßerstraße in Marburg's old town, La Manufacture d'Anouk operates as both a confiserie and a patisserie, a combination that shows up in a case rotating daily through more than 70 cakes and tortes alongside handmade chocolates and pralines. The bakery is certified organic under the EU code DE-Öko-064, and that certification runs through the full ingredient list rather than a single headline item: chocolate, milk, cream, coffee, flour, sugar and butter are all sourced from organic supply chains. Production stays handworked rather than mechanized, a point the business makes directly on its own site, pushing back against the idea that organic sourcing and refined presentation are in tension with each other. Among the rotating case, one fixture recurs often enough to function as a signature rather than a one-off: a cocoa-topped cake called Death by Chocolate. There is seating for coffee and cake inside the old-town shop, alongside a takeaway counter for the chocolates and pralines, open six days a week, Monday to Friday from 10:30 to 6pm and Saturday mornings, and closed Sundays and holidays.
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