13 stores · curated ORBIS register
Dinamarca 47, Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, 06600 Ciudad de México / Mexico City / Mexico
La Rifa Chocolatería works directly with cacao-growing families in southeast Mexico. Production is associated with Mexico, while the range centers on house chocolate and locally accountable cacao craft.
Best for Chocolate made with cacao-growing families in southeast Mexico.
Cuauhtémoc 180, Del Carmen, Coyoacán, 04100 Ciudad de México / Mexico City / Mexico
Chef José Ramón Castillo created Que Bo! in 2004 — Chocolatería Mexicana Evolutiva, Mexican cacao worked through evolving technique. The Polanco shop is one of its city addresses.
Best for Mexican cacao worked through evolving technique at a Polanco shop.
Ámsterdam 154, Hipódromo, Cuauhtémoc, 06100 Ciudad de México / Mexico City / Mexico
Chef Luis Robledo opened Tout Chocolat in Mexico City in 2006 — bonbons, bars, pastries and ice creams from locally accountable cacao.
Best for House chocolate and locally accountable cacao craft.
Oaxaca / Online
Chocolate Mayordomo is an Oaxacan chocolate maker whose own directory lists twenty branches in and around Oaxaca de Juárez. It also lists shops in Mexico City and in the bus terminals of Puebla and Xalapa.
Best for Oaxacan drinking chocolate ground the old way
Oaxaca, Oaxaca City
Chocolate y Mole La Soledad has kept its artisanal process and natural ingredients since 1930, making Oaxacan chocolate from cacao sourced in Chiapas and Tabasco alongside black, red and coloradito moles. The shop at Calle Francisco Javier Mina 212 in Oaxaca still follows its founding grandmother's original recipes.
Best for Traditional oaxacan chocolate and mole
Oaxaca, Oaxaca City
Chocolatl makes bonbons in Oaxacan flavors such as mezcal, passion fruit and coffee ganache, and chocolate bars from cacao, sugar and cacao butter, at its shop on 5 de Mayo 408 in central Oaxaca. It runs tours covering cacao history and traditional bar-making, working directly with Oaxacan farming families following Mayan and Zapotec traditions.
Best for Oaxacan bonbons and chocolate tours
Oaxaca, Oaxaca City
Mamá Pacha Chocolate has run a chocolate workshop in Oaxaca de Juárez since 2018, transforming cacao sourced from the Soconusco region of Chiapas, the Chontalpa in Tabasco and the Chinantla in Oaxaca. It operates a retail shop and beverage bar at Santos Degollado 311.
Best for Small batch oaxacan chocolate
Centro, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca
Mayordomo makes traditional Oaxacan chocolate -- plain, semi-bitter, vanilla and hazelnut -- ground from hand-selected cacao, alongside red and black mole pastes sold by the kilo. Products are made locally by Oaxacan producers and sold from its Centro shop and factory.
Best for Oaxacan drinking chocolate, hazelnut chocolate and red or black mole
Oaxaca
Oaxacanita Chocolate describes itself as the first indigenous social chocolate company of the Mixteca Oaxaqueña, selling cacao nibs, chocolate bars, artisanal kits, wooden molinillos and clay bowls from Villa de Tamazulapan, Oaxaca. It supports local traditional cooks, palm artisans and cacao farmers in the region.
Best for Mixteca oaxaquena cacao products
Oaxaca, Oaxaca City
Rito Chocolatería is a family enterprise making chocolate from cacao of 100% Mexican origin, including its Ritos del Alma line of 80% cacao chocolate flavored with poleo, cacao rosita and chile mixe. It also carries a line called Reina Negra, with products starting at $90.
Best for Ritual inspired oaxacan chocolate
Supermanzana 330, Cancún (Riviera Maya)
Operating since 2005, Ah Cacao works with family cacao farms and has served more than ten million treats to date. Its Playa del Carmen cafe has been featured by Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure and Lonely Planet.
Best for Family-farm cacao and Playa del Carmen chocolate café
Ah Cacao has operated since 2005, according to its own copyright notice, and describes its cacao as coming from family farms it credits with caring for the land the beans are grown on. Over that span the company states it has served more than ten million treats, a scale figure it puts directly on its own site rather than leaving to estimate. Its press presence is unusually well-documented for a regional chocolate cafe: logos and mentions from Travel + Leisure, Delta, SFGate, Aeromexico, Food & Wine, Singapore Airlines, Mexico Desconocido, TripAdvisor, Lonely Planet, Rachael Ray and Playacar Magazine all appear on the site, spanning travel media, airline in-flight coverage and food press. The company also maintains a store locator, indicating a footprint of multiple locations beyond its original counter, though it doesn't state an exact count. Two decades of operation, a ten-million-treats production figure, and a press list running from airline magazines to Lonely Planet together sketch a chocolate cafe that has scaled well past a single tourist-strip storefront while keeping its origin story centered on family-farmed cacao.
Mérida
Coqui Coqui makes fragrances such as eau de parfum, perfumed oils and room diffusers, handmade in Valladolid, alongside gastronomic items like chocolate, vanilla and honey from the Yucatán Peninsula. The company also sells handcrafted textiles and ceramics after more than a decade perfecting traditional perfumery techniques.
Best for Handmade yucatan perfumes and crafts
Merida / Mexico
Co-founded by Mexi-Belgian chocolatier Mathieu Brees, Ki'Xocolatl makes chocolate from sustainable, Cacao Trace-certified Mexican cacao. Bars, boxes and baking chocolate are sold from its Merida shop and shipped across Mexico, with WhatsApp ordering for locals.
Best for Chocolate, Mexican cacao, bean-to-bar, chocolatier
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