15 stores · curated ORBIS register
In Spain chocolate is something you drink first and eat second, and the shops on this plate are arranged in that order. Chocolateria San Gines pours thick, dip-ready hot chocolate with churros around the clock in Madrid. Pastisseria Escribà builds chocolate sculptures and artistic cakes in a Boqueria spectacle of sugar work. Chocolates Valor was founded in 1881 in the Alicante coastal town of Villajoyosa. The Madrid cup is thick by design; if the spoon does not stand for a moment, the recipe has been thinned.
Villajoyosa (La Vila Joiosa), Alicante
Founded in 1881 in the Alicante coastal town of Villajoyosa, Valor is known for its thick drinking chocolate, the chocolate a la taza. It also makes a range of chocolate bars.
Best for Heritage Spanish chocolate and chocolate a la taza
El Born, Barcelona
Croissant in Barcelona — third-generation pastry chef Paula Grosset's tiny shop produces laminated perfection: butter croissants, pain au chocolat, and seasonal creations that rival Paris. Go.
Best for The butter croissant, the pain au chocolate, and the early morning queue.
El Born, Barcelona
Hofmann's pastry business opened in 2008, following Mey Hofmann's earlier Barcelona cooking school. The El Born shop is at Carrer dels Flassaders 44 and sells cakes and individual pastries, with chocolates and baked goods also in its catalogue. It is distinct from both the school and the separate Turó Park pastry location.
Best for Individual pastries and cakes at Hofmann’s El Born shop
Hofmann's pastry shop opened in 2008 as another part of Mey Hofmann's Barcelona food business. It followed the cooking school she had founded in 1983, but the two should not be treated as the same establishment. The El Born pastry shop is at Carrer dels Flassaders 44, separate from the school's earlier Argenteria address.
The shop's catalogue includes cakes and individual pastries. Chocolates and baked goods offer smaller purchases. Its connection to the school provides a background in pastry training, while the retail counter serves people choosing something to eat or take home. A course enquiry belongs to a different part of the business.
A second pastry location at Turó Park is listed on the current website. Choose the branch first, then check its current selection and opening arrangements. The El Born shop is a useful destination for a pastry-focused stop in the neighbourhood, without requiring a restaurant booking. The size and collection arrangements for a celebration cake need a more specific enquiry than a casual purchase at the counter.
Gran Via / La Boqueria, Barcelona
Barcelona's most theatrical pastry shop — Christian Escribà creates edible sculptures, chocolate fantasies, and the city's most artistic cakes. The La Boqueria outpost is a riot of color and sugar.
Best for The chocolate sculptures, the artistic cakes, and the Boqueria spectacle.
Pitres, La Taha, Alpujarra, Granada
This artisan chocolate maker works in Pitres, in the La Taha corner of the Granada Alpujarra. Its specialities include a signature fig-and-chocolate bonbon.
Best for Artisan Alpujarra chocolate & fig bonbons
Granada
A tiny family confectionery crowded with chocolates, sweets and traditional seasonal candies. Founded in 1929 by pastry maker Rafael Ríos Ruiz.
Best for Tiny family confectionery crowded with chocolates, sweets and traditional seasonal candies
Ses Salines, Ibiza, Spain
Sal de Ibiza harvests its salt from the Ses Salines nature reserve at the island's southern tip, sun-drying and stone-milling it without additives to preserve the trace minerals that give it a grey-white cast. The company sells fleur de sel, flavored granito blends and even fleur-de-sel chocolate bars through its own shop and online store.
Best for Ibiza sea salt and fleur de sel
Madrid / Spain
Open around the clock in the Pasadizo de San Ginés near Puerta del Sol since December 1894, this chocolatería serves thick, dippable hot chocolate with churros at marble-topped tables that appear in works by Pérez Galdós and Valle-Inclán, plus a take-away counter and online shop.
Best for Thick, dip-ready hot chocolate and churros served 24 hours a day
Chocolatería San Ginés opened in December 1894 in a passageway beside the Iglesia de San Ginés, near Puerta del Sol, taking its name from the church next door. From early on it became the after-theatre stop for Madrid's playgoers, who would drop in for hot chocolate and churros once the curtain came down, and that late-night habit is still built into the business today: the café runs 24 hours, so the thick, Spanish-style hot chocolate - made for dipping rather than sipping - is available at any hour, not just breakfast or dessert. The room itself carries the weight of the routine: white marble-topped tables and a tiled counter that have appeared in Spanish literature, including Benito Pérez Galdós's Episodios Nacionales and Ramón del Valle-Inclán's Luces de Bohemia, both citing the café as a real fixture of Madrid life rather than an invented backdrop. That continuity - same passageway, same marble tables, same round-the-clock chocolate and churros - is the core of what draws visitors well past its original theatre-crowd clientele. A neighbouring take-away counter and an online shop now extend the business past the café tables, selling boxed chocolate, truffles and churros to take home, but the counter service in the Pasadizo de San Ginés is still the reason the name is known at all.
Madrid / Spain
Since 1915 this small shop on Plaza de Canalejas has sold its signature violet-flavoured candies and sugar-coated violet petals, Madrid keepsakes wrapped in traditional paper. Sweets, chocolates, and gift tins are sold in the store and shipped through its online shop.
Best for Violet candies, sweets, chocolates, confectionery
Cadiz, Spain
Aires de Cadiz is a Cadiz shop devoted to the province's produce, stocking flor de sal, artisan chocolate, tuna conservas and other local specialities. It assembles gift boxes and ships regional foods through its store and website.
Best for Gourmet gifts and Cadiz regional foods
A Coruña (Galicia, Spain)
Bonilla a la Vista is a Galician family business dating to 1932, built around freshly fried churros with hot chocolate and its signature olive-oil potato chips. The company operates churrerías in A Coruña and sells its tins and bags of patatas fritas online, connecting the café tradition with the packaged snack that became its best-known retail product.
Best for Churros con chocolate, Galician potato chips
Plaça Catalunya, Girona
The Roca brothers' bean-to-bar chocolate house roasts single-origin cacao from Ecuador, Peru and Mexico on the premises and sells bars, filled chocolates, spreads and hot-chocolate mixes. A tasting café and a small boutique hotel occupy the same building on Plaça Catalunya.
Best for Single-origin bean-to-bar chocolate and edible gifts
Spain
De Torre Gourmet has traded from the heart of Logroño since 1962, stocking Iberian cured meats, artisan cheeses from France, Italy and Spain, caviar, wine and chocolate under one roof. More than sixty years on, the family-run delicatessen still sells both in person and through its own online shop.
Best for Iberian cured meats, imported cheese, gourmet gifts
Alcubierre, Huesca
Now in its third generation, this bakery on Alcubierre's main square has made turrón and traditional pastries since 1922, roughly midway between Huesca and Zaragoza. Its almond, chocolate-praline, and marzipan turrones sit alongside caracolas and trenzas baked to the same recipes the shop opened with.
Best for Handmade turrón and traditional pastry from a bakery running since 1922
Port Of Spain / Spain
Trinitario is a Trinidad and Tobago chocolate maker whose flagship boutique, The Chocolate Box, operates inside the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre in Port of Spain, handcrafting bars and medallions from fine-flavour cocoa in an open-view kitchen. The brand also ships its single-origin bars and gift sets nationwide and made history co-branding with Harrods of London.
Best for Chocolate, Food
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