20 stores · curated ORBIS register
British chocolate spans bean-to-bar discipline in Edinburgh at one end and Brick Lane theatre at the other, with a Manchester institution between them. Slattery bakes daily bread and handmade chocolate as a third-generation Manchester institution. The Chocolate Tree makes bean-to-bar truffles and hot chocolate from ethically sourced cacao in Edinburgh. Dark Sugars sculpts cocoa pods and pours hot chocolate on Brick Lane in London. Start with the hot chocolate, because the cup makes the decision before the wallet has to. Truffles bruise in a paper bag: a tin kept out of the sun carries them home intact.
Chichester Street, Belfast
Co Couture makes its couture chocolates by hand in central Belfast and pours hot chocolate in its salon. The chocolatier has been recognised with industry awards.
Best for Handmade couture chocolates and hot chocolate
Bristol
Guilbert's has been hand-making chocolates in Bristol since 1910, turning out filled chocolates and truffles in small batches. More than a century on, it keeps to the same by-hand, artisanal approach.
Best for Hand-made filled chocolates
Dundee
Verdant produces gin, rum and vodka in Dundee, with botanical blends the makers say draw on the trading routes once sailed to and from the city. The range spans a Dry Gin and Pink Gin along with flavoured chocolate and toffee vodkas, sold through the company's own online shop.
Best for Dundee-born gin, rum and flavoured vodka
Edinburgh / United Kingdom
Considerit is an Edinburgh maker of plant-based, dairy-free chocolate, doughnuts and ice cream, hand-crafted daily and sold both online and from its shop on Sciennes. The store opens Wednesday to Sunday and also supplies wholesale customers.
Best for Vegan, chocolate, doughnuts, ice-cream
123 Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh
Bean-to-bar chocolate maker — handmade truffles, hot chocolate and ethically sourced cacao.
Best for Bean-to-bar truffles, hot chocolate, and ethically sourced cacao
Broadclyst, near Exeter
A bean-to-bar micro-factory in Broadclyst, Nicola's Chocolate roasts and refines cacao from El Salvador, Uganda and Colombia into single-origin bars and flavours like Masala Chai, winning Taste of the West Gold and International Chocolate Awards Silver.
Best for Single-origin bean-to-bar chocolate roasted, cracked and refined in Broadclyst
Nicola's Chocolate runs as a bean-to-bar micro-factory in Broadclyst, near Exeter, where Nicola personally sources cacao - including trips direct to origin farms such as Hacienda La Carrera in El Salvador - and then roasts, cracks and refines the raw beans in-house rather than buying in pre-processed couverture. That control over every stage lets each origin read distinctly in the finished bar: the range covers single-origin chocolate from El Salvador, Uganda and Colombia, each handled to let its own citrus-bright or deep, cocoa-forward character come through rather than being smoothed into a house style. Alongside the straight single-origins sit flavoured bars built on the same base, including a Masala Chai 50% and an Oregano & Sea Salt 70%, plus other spiced lines such as Spiced Rum. The chocolate has picked up recognized industry awards, including Taste of the West Gold across multiple years, an International Chocolate Awards Silver, and a 2024 Champion Chocolate designation. Nicola also runs classes, tastings and school workshops from the site, treating the micro-factory as a place to learn the craft as much as to buy the bars - a small, hands-on operation where sourcing, processing and teaching all happen under the same roof.
Saltmarket
A micro-batch bean-to-bar chocolate maker in Glasgow, founded by Cameron, a former automotive mechanical engineer, and Lara, a food photographer and chef, working from a railway arch and making chocolate in roughly 30kg batches.
Best for Glasgow micro-batch bean-to-bar chocolate
Bare Bones Chocolate is run by two founders, Cameron and Lara, who came to chocolate from unrelated careers: Cameron worked as a mechanical engineer in the automotive industry, and Lara was a food photographer and chef who had worked with chefs and food producers in London. Operating from a railway arch in central Glasgow, they make chocolate in small batches of around 30 kilograms at a time, roasting cacao on a modified coffee roaster adapted for the purpose rather than standard chocolate-industry equipment. Their bars are made without soya lecithin, added vegetable fats, or other industrial additives, a stripped-back approach reflected in the 'Bare Bones' name. The business also carries an explicit sustainability angle in its packaging: boxes are made from recycled paper coffee cups, wrappers are plant-based material sourced from Vegware, and all packaging is designed to be recyclable or compostable, sourced within the UK. The chocolate has been recognized by the Academy of Chocolate's awards, and chef Rick Stein has been quoted praising it directly on the company's own materials.
Leeds (studio-based, sold at Yorkshire markets)
Ollie Morris trained in patisserie at Leeds City College before turning a lockdown hobby into a chocolate business in 2021. Each bon bon is hand-decorated to order, with dairy-free lines made alongside bespoke wedding and corporate gift boxes.
Best for Hand-decorated artisan bon bons
Llandudno, North Wales
Pendragon makes its hot chocolate and eating chocolate on site in Llandudno, with a viewing window onto the factory floor built into the museum upstairs that traces 5,000 years of chocolate history. The adjoining shop sells the factory's own bars and drinking chocolate alongside pieces from its collection of vintage chocolate packaging and memorabilia.
Best for Handmade drinking chocolate and factory-made bars
London / Bond Street
Bond Street's chocolatier — Royal Warrant since 1875, pink champagne truffles, and the shop that invented the chocolate truffle.
Best for Pink champagne truffles, Royal Warrant, invented the truffle.
London / Brick Lane
Brick Lane's chocolate wonderland — cocoa pod sculptures, handmade truffles, and the hot chocolate that comes topped with shavings.
Best for Handmade chocolate, cocoa sculptures, hot chocolate.
Piccadilly, London
Founded in 1902 by master chocolatier Antoine Dufour, Prestat lays claim to originating the chocolate truffle and held two Royal Warrants from the Queen Mother, in 1975 and 1999. Roald Dahl gave the brand a cameo in his novel My Uncle Oswald, and its truffles are still sold from a small shop in Piccadilly's Princes Arcade.
Best for Chocolate truffles and ganaches
London / Belgravia / Multiple
The Moxon Street shop hosts tutored tastings and hands-on chocolate sessions in addition to retail. Experiences cover tempering and sampling a broad selection, with separate formats offered for adults, children and private groups.
Best for Sea salt caramels, violet creams, artisan chocolate.
Manchester Vt / United Kingdom
Founded in 1977 as a small Manchester fudge shop, Mother Myrick's is best known for the buttercrunch toffee Ron began making that first year, alongside caramels, chocolate assortments and its Lemon Lulu cake. The retail store still sells over the counter while a full online cart ships cakes and confections nationwide.
Best for Confectionery, chocolatier, buttercrunch-toffee, bakery, caramels
Manchester / United Kingdom
Bernard and Margaret Slattery opened this Whitefield bakery in 1967; it is now run by the third generation, still baking fresh bread and hand-piped celebration cakes on the premises alongside handmade chocolates. The ground-floor shop sells confectionery and build-your-own chocolate bars, while the upstairs Masons dining room serves breakfast through afternoon tea.
Best for Third-generation daily-baked bread, wedding cakes and handmade chocolate
Bernard and Margaret Slattery opened their Whitefield bakery in 1967; more than half a century later it remains family-run, now in its third generation. The business grew into a combined bakery and chocolatier, producing fresh bread daily alongside hand-piped celebration cakes and handmade chocolates, all made on the premises rather than bought in.
The ground-floor shop sells that full range, confectionery, gift hampers and build-your-own chocolate bar kits, while upstairs, the Masons dining room serves breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea in the same historic Whitefield building the family has occupied since the business began. Slattery describes itself as award-winning, though it does not itemize which awards on its site.
The chocolate side of the business is seasonal in practice: during warm weather the bakery holds internet chocolate orders rather than risk shipping products that could melt in transit, a small operational detail that underscores how much of what Slattery sells is still made and handled by hand rather than mass-produced.
Lacock, Wiltshire, England
Chocolatiers here design and hand-craft every bar and truffle on site rather than importing couverture pieces to resell, turning out gift hampers and hot-chocolate spoons from a shopfront in the historic village centre. The National Trust's own Lacock visitor guide lists it among the village's independent shops rather than its estate concessions.
Best for Handmade chocolates and gift hampers
Richmond upon Thames
This independent gelateria has hand-made its Italian gelato in central Richmond since 2005. Chocolates round out the counter alongside the daily gelato.
Best for Artisan Italian gelato and chocolates
The King's Mile, Canterbury
Madame Oiseau is a chocolatier on the King's Mile behind Canterbury Cathedral, hand-making filled chocolates and truffles in the French and Belgian tradition. The small shop sells its confections loose and boxed, from single pralines to gift selections.
Best for Handmade chocolates and truffles
Frisco (adjacent to Buxton, Hatteras Island)
A Frisco landmark for more than 60 years, this shop makes its fudge on-site with cream and butter in over 30 flavors from Key Lime to Chocolate Rum Nut Raisin, and takes its name from the scotch bonnet, North Carolina's state seashell. Cases of saltwater taffy in 21 flavors, seashells and coastal gifts round out the shop's range.
Best for Handmade fudge and saltwater taffy
Toxteth, Liverpool
Founded by designer-turned-chocolatier Rebecca Birtwistle, Toxteth Chocolate makes small-batch bars and confectionery from a base in the Toxteth neighbourhood. The bright, illustration-led packaging and flavour choices are deliberately rooted in the colour and variety of the surrounding community.
Best for Artisan chocolate bars and gifts
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