37 stores · curated ORBIS register
Turin has layered espresso and chocolate in the same glass since 1763, and Milan and Lucca answer with pralines. Bicerin - Caffè al Bicerin has layered espresso and chocolate in Turin since 1763. Zàini Milano boxes pralines from a 1913 Milanese chocolate house. Caniparoli Cioccolateria hand-makes pralines and single-origin bars in Lucca across 30 years. A bicerin at the counter predates the wrapper, so it comes before the bar. Single-origin bars let the cocoa talk; gift boxes rarely allow it.
Ferrara (Via Bologna)
Pastry chef Nicola Paiato's shop Le Follie on Via Bologna created the Pampaiato, a Christmas cake merging soft panettone dough with the chocolate-and-spice character of Ferrarese pampapato. The cake is sold exclusively through the shop in a transparent bag or gift box.
Best for Pampaiato panettone-pampapato cake
Bologna / Online
Bologna's chocolate house since 1796 — the Fiat cremino. Cremino Fiat (1911) was commissioned as a four-layer cremino for Fiat’s Tipo 4 launch; official page says the classic recipe is unchanged and about 5 million are made each year.
Best for The Cremino Fiat.
Gourmet, Food & Cafés, Florence / Online
Rivoire has served chocolate from Florence's Piazza della Signoria since 1872, facing the Palazzo Vecchio. The café is known for its cioccolata calda drinking chocolate and gianduia, made at the same historic address.
Best for Drinking chocolate and gianduia.
Lucca / Italy / Online
Caniparoli Cioccolateria is an artisan chocolate workshop in Lucca with over thirty years of experience, hand-making pralines, spreads, single-origin bars and gift boxes. Its online shop ships worldwide with temperature-controlled delivery alongside its Tuscan laboratory.
Best for Hand-made pralines and single-origin bars from a 30-year Lucca chocolate workshop
Matera / Basilicata / Online
Le Lucane sells Lucanian food and craft from Via delle Beccherie in Matera's historic centre and through its online shop. Run by B&G di Taccardi Bruna, it pairs local tradition with current design. Shelves carry peperone crusco in several forms, slow-dried pasta from local durum wheat, jams, a sweet cream of Sarconi IGP beans, chocolate-coated dried figs from Miglionico, olive oil and liqueurs.
Best for Cucù whistles and Lucanian pantry.
Le Lucane is a shop and online store in Matera run by B&G di Taccardi Bruna, trading from Via delle Beccherie 13/15 in the historic centre. The business describes itself as an example of female entrepreneurship that has evolved over time. It pairs current design trends with the traditions of the territory around Matera, which was Capitale Europea della Cultura in 2019. Its stated aim is to seek out local craft expressions and typical products in order to tell the story of the taste of the region. The pantry side of the catalogue leans on local ingredients. Peperone crusco appears as a powder and as a bruschetta spread. It also goes into an artichoke cream with walnuts made from local vegetables without colourings or preservatives. Pasta is slow dried and made from local durum semola. Shapes include the Materano cavatello and the ferretto macaroni, with a burnt-wheat version drawn through bronze dies. Organic orecchiette and strozzapreti come from Senatore Cappelli wheat. Jams include pumpkin with almonds and pear with cinnamon. There is a sweet cream of Sarconi IGP beans. Dried figs from Miglionico arrive soaked in liqueur and coated in dark chocolate. Extra-virgin olive oil in several sizes sits beside a honey grappa with pistachio and a coffee rosolio. Orders can be collected at the shop or shipped across the country and its islands.
Milan / Italy
Zàini Milano is a chocolate boutique rooted in the 1913 Milanese chocolate house, selling pralines, bars and gift boxes. Its Via De Cristoforis and Viale Piave shops double as cafés for hot chocolate, gelato and aperitivo.
Best for Pralines, bars, and gift boxes from an 1913 Milanese chocolate house
Naples / Online
Gay-Odin has made chocolate in an art-nouveau factory on Naples' Via Toledo since 1894. Its specialties include Foresta log-shaped chocolates and nudi chocolates, still produced at that historic address.
Best for The Foresta and Neapolitan chocolates.
Parma / Italy
Alessandro Battistini's Parma pasticceria, open every day, fills its counter with modern tortes, mignon, macarons and hand-finished chocolates. The Via Montebello shop takes orders for special occasions and delivers across the city by cargo bike.
Best for Pastry, cakes, macarons, chocolate
Italy
Run by the Gronchi family since 1927, this pastry shop on Via Roma has been the official maker of the Torta dei Fieschi since 1949, baking the dessert each year for the medieval Fieschi reenactment in Piazza dei Fieschi on August 14th. Its signature Carugetti pair hazelnut meringue with dark chocolate alongside a case of traditional Ligurian sweets and brioche.
Best for Torta dei Fieschi and Carugetti pastries
Turin / Galleria Subalpina / Online
Baratti & Milano has operated as a café-confectioner in Turin's Galleria Subalpina since 1858. The house is known for its gianduiotti and cremini chocolates, still sold today in the same belle-époque jewel-box tins.
Best for Cremini and gianduiotti in belle-époque boxes.
Turin, Piedmont
The birthplace of bicerin — since 1763, the layered drink of espresso, chocolate, and cream that is Turin's signature contribution to global coffee culture.
Best for Since 1763, the layered drink of espresso, chocolate
Caffè al Bicerin has operated in the same spot in Piazza della Consolata, next to Turin's Basilica della Consolata, since 1763 — 263 years, by the café's own count. The house drink that gives the place its name layers espresso, drinking chocolate, and cream into a single glass; Umberto Eco, describing it in his 2010 novel "The Prague Cemetery," called the combination one of Turin's "legendary places" and wrote of its "fragrance of milk, cocoa, coffee and other aromas." The drink has a long pedigree of its own: during Lenten fasting periods it was permitted specifically because hot chocolate wasn't classified as food, letting churchgoers drink through the fast.
Count Cavour, the 19th-century Italian statesman, kept a regular table here, and Alexandre Dumas wrote about the bicerin during his travels through Turin. The café itself still looks the part — candlelight, period furnishings, cast-iron columns and capitals, wood paneling set with mirrors, marble-topped tables — and remains family-operated more than two and a half centuries after it opened, now recognized as a member of Italy's Historic Locales register. It's one of the few places anywhere that can point to an unbroken 18th-century recipe, the room it was invented in, and the statesman who used to sit in it.
Turin / Online
Founded in 1997 by Gianluca Franzoni, who began studying Venezuela's rare Criollo cacao in 1994; the Turin house still mills its own beans in-house for single-origin bars like Chuao and Porcelana.
Best for Criollo single-origin chocolate.
Domori was founded in 1997 by Gianluca Franzoni, an economics graduate who had traveled to Venezuela in 1993 and became captivated by cacao growing there. Starting in 1994, he began working directly with growers and research centers to study and preserve Criollo, the rarest and most delicate of the world's cacao varieties, largely abandoned by industrial chocolate makers in favor of higher-yielding, more disease-resistant beans. That project became the foundation of the company: Domori sources and mills its own cacao rather than buying processed couverture, handling selection, fermentation oversight, roasting, and conching in-house from its base in Turin. Its flagship line is a set of single-origin, single-plantation bars built around named Criollo sources — Chuao, Porcelana, Guasare, and Canoabo among them — each sold at a stated cacao percentage rather than blended into a house style. Beyond bars, the company makes pralines, gift sets, cacao nibs, spreads, and baking chocolate, and runs tasting courses and chocolatier training at its Turin operation. It is structured as an Italian Benefit Company, formalizing sustainability and grower-relationship commitments alongside its commercial activity.
Turin / Online
Turin chocolatier founded 1964 by Giuseppe Gobino as a gianduja workshop; his son Guido created the bite-sized Tourinot in 1995 and the Cremino al Sale (Ligurian olive oil, Cervia sea salt), named world's best praline by London's Academy of Chocolate in 2008.
Best for Giandujotti and Turin chocolate craft.
Guido Gobino traces to 1964, when Giuseppe Gobino founded the 'Laboratorio Artigianale del Giandujotto' in Turin, dedicated to the traditional Piedmontese hazelnut-and-cocoa specialty gianduja. His son Guido took the craft further: in 1995 he reworked the classic boat-shaped giandujotto into a smaller, single-bite version called the Tourinot, which became the product most associated with the brand internationally. Guido Gobino also developed the Cremino al Sale, a savory-sweet layered chocolate made with Ligurian Taggiasca olive oil and Cervia sea salt, which London's Academy of Chocolate named the world's best praline in 2008. The company operates a shop and factory-visit program in Turin.
Corso Moncalieri 47, 10133 Torino, Italy / Turin / Italy
Founded 1915 by Lucia Peyrano; original Corso Moncalieri shop/lab still packs boxes by hand (official about; MuseoTorino).
Best for Hand-packed chocolates from Peyrano’s original Turin shop and laboratory.
Via Sacchi 42, 10125 Torino, Italy / Turin / Italy
Opened 1915 by Gustavo Pfatisch; Locale Storico d’Italia in Pietro Fenoglio’s Via Sacchi 42 Liberty building with basement chocolate workshop (official history; Turismo Torino).
Best for Locale Storico d’Italia in Pietro Fenoglio’s Via Sacchi 42 Liberty building with basement chocolate workshop.
Turin / Piazza San Carlo
1836 — the royal confectioner. The candied violets, the chocolates, the preserves, and the shop that supplied the House of Savoy.
Best for 1836, royal confectioner, candied violets, House of Savoy.
Turin / Online
Turin chocolate house founded in 1878 by 20-year-old Silviano Venchi, who began experimenting with chocolate after buying two bronze cauldrons; Nougatine became an early signature.
Best for Gianduiotti and chocolate gift tins.
Silviano Venchi, a Turin confectioner's apprentice, founded his chocolate house in 1878 in the city that is Italian chocolate's capital — Turin invented gianduja, the hazelnut-chocolate blend born of cocoa shortages and Piedmont's exceptional hazelnuts, and Venchi has made it ever since. The house's Cuor di Cacao chocolates, gianduiotti in their gold foil, and chocolate-hazelnut spreads descend directly from that tradition, produced at scale without abandoning Piedmontese sourcing for the nuts. Modern Venchi stores added gelato counters whose chocolate flavors — particularly the pure dark sorbets and gianduja — rank among Italy's best chain-made gelato. The Turin stores are the origin point. Buy gianduiotti as the canonical purchase: the little gold ingots are the taste of Turin codified, and a box travels well enough to serve as Italy's most reliable edible souvenir.
The gelato counters serve the chocolate flavors as the kitchen intends them; try the pure dark sorbet beside a gianduja scoop for the house's two poles at once.
Verona / Italy
Pasticceria Perlini has made traditional Veronese pastries, chocolates and savory bites from its Via Tombetta shop in the Borgo Roma district since 1929. It's known locally for nadalin and panettone during the holidays, and also takes custom cake and catering orders for events.
Best for Century-old Verona pasticceria known for nadalin and panettone
Brescia
Acquolina in Bocca is an artisan confectionery in Brescia making chocolates, pralines and sweet specialities by hand. Production centres on high-quality Italian ingredients across a rotating seasonal range.
Best for Handmade chocolates and confectionery
Pontedera / Tuscany / Online
Amedei makes Tuscan bean-to-bar chocolate, including Porcelana and Chuao bars.
Best for Porcelana grand-cru bars.
Modica / Sicily / Online
Founded in Modica in 1880 by Francesco Bonajuto after his family moved from ice selling into confectionery, Bonajuto describes itself as the oldest chocolate factory in Sicily still at work. Still cold-worked using the low-temperature, unrefined method of Aztec origin, without conching, producing the grainy Modica-style chocolate the town is known for.
Best for Grainy Modica bars in ancient flavors.
Antica Dolceria Bonajuto is a family-run chocolate maker in Modica, Sicily, generally cited as the oldest chocolate business in Sicily and among the oldest in Italy. The Bonajuto family were originally ice sellers in the Hyblaean Mountains before shifting toward pastry and confectionery in the first half of the 19th century; Federico Bonajuto bought a stone mill (frantoio) in 1853 to crush cacao beans for making bitter chocolate paste. His son Francesco formally opened the Dolceria in central Modica in 1880, and the business has continued under family ownership for six generations since. The shop's signature product is Modica chocolate (cioccolato di Modica), made by working cacao mass and sugar at low temperature without conching or refining — a method traced to Spanish colonial-era transmission of Aztec techniques — which leaves the chocolate with a distinctive grainy, unmelted-sugar texture rather than the smooth finish of conched chocolate. Bonajuto sells classic and flavoured bars (including chilli, vanilla, cinnamon and citrus variants), along with traditional Modican sweets such as 'mpanatigghi. In 2008 the business was included among Eurispes' list of 100 Italian excellences. The original shop remains in Modica's historic baroque centre and also ships internationally through its own website.
Luserna / Piedmont / Online
The house that invented gianduia in 1865 — Piedmont chocolate history in gold foil.
Best for The original gianduiotto.
Lungomare
Set on Catania's waterfront, this bar, pasticceria and gelateria builds its name on invented desserts alongside espresso, granita and toasted sandwiches. The vitrine leans to original chocolate-forward sweets rather than the standard repertoire.
Best for Original chocolate desserts, gelato and coffee on Catania's Viale Ruggero di Lauria
Modica / Sicily / Online
Modica dolceria shipping the island's sweet canon — IGP cold-worked chocolate, almond pastes, pistachio creams, cannoli kits.
Best for Modica IGP bars and pistachio cream.
Fiscaglia (Ferrara)
A confectioner in the Migliarino area of Fiscaglia, Ferrara province, making artisanal pampapato as its signature product for more than forty years. The line extends to biscuits, baked goods and seasonal Easter chocolates, taken over in 2006 by Raffaele Bulgarelli and Maria Luisa Mantovani.
Best for Artisanal pampapato di Ferrara
Falconara Marittima (Ancona province), Marche
A three-generation family confectioner since 1964 in Falconara Marittima, near Ancona, this shop handcrafts its own chocolate. Torrone and gelato complete the range.
Best for Artisan chocolate, torrone and gelato
Città Alta (Colle Aperto)
La Marianna, at Colle Aperto on the edge of Bergamo's Città Alta, is where Enrico Panattoni invented stracciatella gelato in 1961 by folding shards of dark chocolate into fresh cream. Never patented, the recipe made this pasticceria-gelateria the birthplace of a flavor now served worldwide and named Bergamo's official gelato in 2017.
Best for The original stracciatella gelato
Sorrento / Italy
Limonoro is a Sorrento shop specializing in handcrafted limoncello and liqueurs, alongside chocolate spreads, flavored olive oils, and honey from the Sorrento Peninsula. The online shop ships internationally with a full catalog of limoncello, wedding favors, and gift boxes.
Best for Handcrafted Sorrento limoncello, flavored olive oils, and honey, plus wedding-favor gift boxes
Via de' Carbonesi (city centre)
Majani has made confections since 1796 and created the four-layer Cremino in 1911 for the launch of the Fiat Tipo 4. Its historic Bologna shop sells the Cremino, Scorza dark-chocolate flakes, and boxed pralines.
Best for Cremino and heritage chocolates
Ferrara (Via Cortevecchia)
Cristiano Pirani's pastry shop, chocolaterie and cafe on Via Cortevecchia, known for long-fermentation leavened cakes rested 55 to 60 hours and Gambero Rosso recognition. It produces panettone, colomba, biscuits, spreadable creams and chocolate, with an online shop for shipping.
Best for Long-fermentation panettone and chocolate
Chiavari
Pasticceria Copello, a Chiavari confetteria founded in 1826, still makes the rare sciroppo di rose, a syrup pressed from rose petals, alongside candied fruit and traditional Ligurian sweets. Its counters carry canditi, chocolates and the local dolce 'Ciavai'.
Best for Sciroppo di rose and candied fruit
Ferrara (Corso Porta Reno)
A pastry shop, chocolaterie and gelateria founded in 2013 on Corso Porta Reno in central Ferrara, making everything in house from breakfast through aperitivo. Its range spans cakes, chocolates, biscuits, panettone and gelato.
Best for In-house pastries, chocolate and gelato
Polignano A Mare / Italy
Opened in 1996 on Via Pompeo Sarnelli in Polignano a Mare, this pastry shop is known for its signature Segreto dessert alongside mignon, cannoli, chocolates and seasonal cakes made to order for pickup or local delivery. The shop's tray-building system lets customers assemble a custom selection of Puglian sweets online.
Best for Pasticceria, Chocolate, Food & Drink
Chiavari
Pasticceria Falcone is a Chiavari patisserie making cakes, pastries and chocolates alongside classic Ligurian baking. Its counter turns out both everyday sweets and celebration cakes.
Best for Cakes, pastries and chocolates
Bottega in Assisi (monastery in Bastia Umbra)
The Benedictine nuns of the Monastero di Sant'Anna sell their handmade goods through this bottega in Assisi. The range runs from olive oil and craft beer to chocolate, biscuits, jams, honey and herbal teas.
Best for Monastic food, herbal and craft products made by the nuns
Vico dei Castagna, centro storico
Working from Vico dei Castagna since 1866, this chocolate workshop still tempers and moulds by hand using original equipment, alongside a small patisserie and artisan gelato. A second location on Salita del Prione runs the cafe and gelateria side of the business.
Best for Hand-made chocolate
Via Tacito, Cremona
Secondo Vergani has made Cremona's classic torrone since 1881, pressing honey, egg white and toasted almonds into hard nougat bars alongside marrons glacés and candied mostarda. The confectionery on Via Tacito also turns out chocolate pralines, truffles and seasonal specialties under the historic Vergani name.
Best for Torrone and mostarda gifts
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