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Chocolate of Netherlands

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Chocolate-vanilla marble cake is baked at Rum Baba's Pretoriusstraat premises in Amsterdam, alongside bread and on-site coffee roasting. At Van Wonderen Stroopwafels on Kalverstraat, warm caramel stroopwafels are pressed to order and finished with chocolate dips or other toppings. Delft's Chocolaterie De Lelie makes handmade bonbons and chocolate specialities at its central shops on Voorstraat and Gasthuislaan. The chocolatier also churns gelato and runs workshops where visitors fill and finish their own bonbons.

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Rum Baba roasts its coffee on-site at its Pretoriusstraat bakery and roastery in Amsterdam, alongside sourdough bread, croissants, and a chocolate-vanilla marble cake. A separate café location and an appointment-only roastery round out its three Amsterdam sites.

Best for In-house sourdough and marble cake alongside on-site coffee roasting.

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Kalverstraat 190, Amsterdam Centrum

This Kalverstraat shop makes fresh, warm caramel stroopwafels to order, finished with a choice of chocolate dips and toppings. Each waffle is pressed and dressed on the spot.

Best for Fresh stroopwafels, Dutch caramel waffles

⚒ Gourmet & Pantry · Amsterdam / NetherlandsORBIS register

Voorstraat and Gasthuislaan, Delft

This artisan chocolatier makes handmade bonbons and chocolate specialties at two shops in central Delft, on Voorstraat and Gasthuislaan, and also churns its own gelato. Workshops let visitors fill and finish their own bonbons.

Best for Handmade bonbons and gelato

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Utrecht / Netherlands

Cacao is an artisan chocolaterie on Utrecht's Oudegracht, hand-making pralines, bonbons, and chocolate gifts that it sells both from the canal-side shop and through its own webshop. The team also takes business orders and hosts chocolate-making workshops on request.

Best for Chocolate, Confectionery

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Maastricht / Netherlands

A Maastricht institution since 1970, Chocolaterie Abbing still makes its roughly thirty bonbons fresh on the premises using Callebaut chocolate. The Grote Gracht shop sells them over the counter and delivers to homes and local hospitality venues.

Best for Chocolate, bonbons, chocolatier, handmade

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Apothekersdijk 6

De Bonbonnerie has made bonbons and chocolate letters on-site at Apothekersdijk for around 30 years, running a café and terrace alongside the shop counter. It also handles corporate and wedding chocolate orders from the same address.

Best for Handcrafted bonbons and chocolate letters

⚒ Chocolatiers · Leiden / NetherlandsORBIS register

Utrecht / Netherlands

Mesjokke makes bean-to-bar chocolate in Utrecht under the name The Chocolate Explorers, buying specialty cacao direct from farmers in places like Nicaragua, Madagascar, and the Dominican Republic at two to three times bulk-cacao prices. The full range of bars, couverture, and gift sets is sold through the company's own online shop.

Best for Chocolate, Bean-to-Bar

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Oud-West

Dutch chocolate brand founded 2005 by journalist Teun van de Keuken after investigating slave and child labor in cocoa supply chains; its original Amsterdam shop sits beneath the company's offices near Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam-West.

Best for Slave-free ethical chocolate.

⚒ Chocolatiers · NetherlandsORBIS register

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