Chocolate of Peru

Cusco

Chococuzco presses pure Peruvian cacao paste into traditional hundred-gram 'chapa' discs and bars meant to be melted into hot chocolate. Its range runs from drinking-chocolate tablets to seventy-percent bitter couverture and cocoa powder for baking, all worked by hand.

Best for Stone-ground drinking chocolate and cacao paste

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Lima (Miraflores, Barranco, San Isidro)

Maraná is a bean-to-bar chocolate maker working with cacao from Cusco, Piura and San Martín, producing tablets at 70, 80 and 100 percent alongside chocotejas and pastry lines. Its bars and confections are stocked at specialty grocers and cafés across Miraflores, Barranco and San Isidro, with two-hour delivery inside Lima.

Best for Bean-to-bar tablets and chocotejas

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Barranco

Founded in 2012, working single-origin cacao out of Piura, Cuzco and Amazonas, with gold at the International Chocolate Awards to show for it. The shop is its own, on Jirón Domeyer in Barranco.

Best for Single-origin Peruvian chocolate bars

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Amazonas (Chachapoyas point of sale; workshop in Bagua Grande)

Founded in 2016 by Jonathan Reyna and Carolina Leon, Kuyay makes bean-to-bar chocolate from native fine-flavor cacao grown for more than eighty years on the family's Quya farm in Jahuanga, Bagua Grande. Its award-winning bars pair Amazonas cacao with Peruvian ingredients such as Cusco salt, Junin pineapple and Huanuco goldenberries, and are sold through a Chachapoyas outlet.

Best for Single-origin Amazonas bean-to-bar chocolate

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Historic Center (Calle Jerusalén), Arequipa

Founded in Arequipa in 1909, La Ibérica is known for traditional stone-ground chocolate. Its own chocolaterías also sell toffees and other confectionery.

Best for Traditional Arequipa stone-ground chocolate

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Tarapoto / Peru

Orquidea Chocolate makes chocolate from cacao grown in Peru's San Martin region, selling bars and confections through its online shop while also supplying supermarkets. The company's office and storefront sit at Jr. Sta. Monica 200 in Tarapoto, confirmed by the Google Maps listing on its contact page.

Best for Chocolate bars made from San Martin-grown Peruvian cacao at its Tarapoto storefront

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