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American bean-to-bar chocolate was built by makers who publish their recipes and print their percentages. San Francisco's Dandelion Chocolate makes single-origin bars from just two ingredients: cocoa and sugar. Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate works single-origin bars and drinking chocolate from its Humboldt Bay waterfront factory. French Broad Chocolate covers bean-to-bar bars and truffles, with drinking chocolate for the dessert table. A percentage tells you what the maker changed, which no flavour description on the wrapper ever manages.
Downtown Asheville
French Broad Chocolate sources cacao directly from farmers and roasts, grinds, and crafts it into bars, truffles, and drinking chocolate at its downtown Asheville factory. The bean-to-bar maker and lounge is a cornerstone of the city's food scene.
Best for Bean-to-bar chocolate bars and truffles; Drinking chocolate and desserts; Craft chocolate gifts
Multiple
Open 24/7 across three Austin locations, known for the dark-chocolate Raven mocha. Its cold brew recipe went on to inspire the bottled, nationally distributed Chameleon Cold Brew.
Best for Cold brew that inspired Chameleon Cold Brew
Bennu Coffee runs three Austin locations — East on MLK Boulevard, South Congress, and Highland — all open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, a schedule aimed at the university crowd and night-shift regulars. The house specialty is the Raven, a dark-chocolate mocha finished with homemade whipped cream, but Bennu's more consequential claim is upstream of the menu: the shop's cold brew is credited as the direct inspiration for Chameleon Cold Brew, the bottled cold brew brand that went on to national grocery distribution — a rare case of a single independent café's recipe seeding a nationwide packaged-goods product. Beans are organic and fair trade, sourced through Texas Coffee Traders, and the shop runs a rotating French press program alongside the standard espresso menu. Food comes from other local vendors rather than an in-house kitchen — Fricano's Deli, Russell's Bakery and Hoboken Pie Company all supply Bennu's counter — and spent coffee grounds go back out to the public for composting.
Baltimore
Maker of the Baltimore Berger Cookie, a shortbread-style cookie under a thick layer of fudge. DeBaufre Bakeries produces it from a recipe dating to the 1830s.
Best for Chocolate fudge-topped Berger Cookies
Beacon Hill, Boston
Beacon Hill Chocolates on Charles Street assembles boxes of artisan chocolates sourced from makers around the world, presented in its decoupage hatboxes. It also serves house confections and hot chocolate at the shop.
Best for Curated artisan chocolate boxes
Greater Boston, South Shore
Hilliard's has made hand-dipped chocolates and candy in Massachusetts since the 1920s, among them butter crunch, creams and seasonal moulded pieces. The family confectioner produces its sweets in small batches and sells them from its South Shore shops.
Best for Hand-dipped chocolates and candy
River Rock Drive, Buffalo (WNY locations)
Fowler's Chocolates, founded by Joseph A. Fowler in 1901, calls itself Buffalo's original sponge candy maker and still turns out the airy toffee-centered confection. Run from a River Rock Drive factory store, it also makes almond butter crunch, sea-salt caramels and truffles using chocolate up to 60% cacao.
Best for Sponge candy, chocolates, caramels and truffles
Chicago
Oro Chocolate & Coffee sources exclusively from Nicaragua, where its owner lived for ten years, working directly with over 1,000 named farming families. Bean-to-bar chocolate and single-lot coffee are both pressed and roasted at its Chicago café.
Best for Bean-to-bar chocolate and coffee sourced entirely from named Nicaraguan farming families
Oro Chocolate & Coffee runs on a single-country relationship: its owner spent ten years living in Nicaragua before opening this Chicago bean-to-bar operation, and the sourcing has stayed exclusively Nicaraguan since, working directly with more than 1,000 farming families rather than through a broker. Some of those growers are named outright -- Abraham Cruz, Junior Olivas and Enrique Lopez appear as specific farming partners behind specific lots, a level of traceability past what 'single-origin' usually promises. The chocolate runs from 62 to 88 percent cacao across bars like Tuma, Opayo and Extra Dark, pressed and conched in-house at the Milwaukee Avenue café; the coffee side pours single-lot brews such as a natural Catuaí from Finca Zaragoza and a honey-processed Caturra from El Palacio. Beyond the bars and bags, the café serves ceremonial drinking chocolate and a golden-milk chai built on the same cacao. The company frames its sourcing as slavery-free and ethically direct, backs a reforestation initiative tied to the same farms it buys from, and runs its own travel excursions to Nicaragua -- treating the trip to origin as part of the product rather than a marketing aside.
Southside, Corpus Christi, Texas
This Southside brewery keeps around fifteen house beers plus hard kombucha on tap, from its Corpus Christi Blonde to a Mexican hot chocolate milk stout. The taproom adds a Sunday brunch to the rotation of ambers, IPAs, bocks and porters.
Best for House-brewed beer and kombucha
Bishop Arts, Dallas
A chef-driven chocolate maker in the Bishop Arts district turning out handcrafted truffles, fudges, barks and spreads on an ever-changing menu. The West Eighth Street shop leans into unexpected flavor combinations.
Best for Handcrafted truffles and fudge
Oak Cliff, Dallas
Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters date-stamps every small batch and matches subscribers to beans through a taste quiz rather than expertise. It anchors the CliffMade collective on West Davis Street, alongside 5 Mile Chocolate, Candor Bread and Race Street Coffee.
Best for Small-batch, date-stamped specialty coffee since 2008
Shannon Neffendorf started Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters in 2008 after a business trip to Milan left him unable to settle for what passed as coffee back in Dallas; he began roasting on the side, landed Crooked Tree Coffeehouse as his first wholesale account in January 2009, and quit his job at Blockbuster soon after to roast full time. The company still runs on the freshness discipline that grew out of that decision: coffee is roasted in small batches, sealed into one-way-valve bags as soon as it cools, and each bag is stamped with its actual roast date rather than a generic best-by. In 2016, Oak Cliff became the first Dallas-based roaster to win a Good Food Award, a national recognition for craft food producers, cementing a reputation that has since carried the business into wholesale accounts across Dallas-Fort Worth, including early clients like The Wild Detectives and Whole Foods. On West Davis Street, the roastery now anchors CliffMade, a small collective of Oak Cliff food producers that groups Oak Cliff Coffee alongside 5 Mile Chocolate, Candor Bread, East Kiest Farms, Davis Street Espresso and Race Street Coffee — neighborhood makers sharing a retail footprint rather than a single roastery-café model.
Denver, Colorado
Cultura Craft Chocolate is a small-batch, bean-to-bar maker on Morrison Road in Denver's Westwood neighborhood, turning ethically sourced cacao into bars and drinking chocolate. Its weekend cafe serves the chocolate alongside a mission to support the farming communities it buys from.
Best for Bean-to-bar chocolate and drinking chocolate
Gateway, Arkansas (near Eureka Springs)
A three-generation candy maker on Highway 62 between Rogers and Eureka Springs, working from recipes that trace to a book published in 1897. The Greers hand-make their chocolates and nut confections with real chocolate, sweet cream butter, and dry-roasted nuts.
Best for Heritage handmade chocolates and nut candies
Half Moon Bay, California
A Swiss-trained chocolatier makes filled chocolates, truffles and confections at this Half Moon Bay shop, plus a counter in Palo Alto. Custom chocolate work and gift boxes fill out the offering.
Best for Swiss-style chocolates and gifts
Hood River
Édeske is a woman-owned boutique patisserie turning out European-style pastries and chocolates in downtown Hood River. The shop favors classic French technique over the valley's more rustic pie-and-crumble baking tradition.
Best for European pastry and chocolate
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Carrie Abbott founded Newfangled Confections in 2012 to make Frittle, a peanut-brittle-meets-fudge candy she invented for a wedding, and the company later absorbed Best Chocolate in Town, folding in the beloved downtown chocolatier's recipes in 2020. The Indianapolis kitchen still hand-dips truffles and bark alongside its original nostalgic candy lines.
Best for Small-batch candy and hand-dipped chocolate
Los Angeles / Online
Compartes has made chocolate by hand in Los Angeles since 1950, known for designer gift boxes, award-winning truffles, and gourmet bars in artful packaging. Its full range is sold through the brand's online shop.
Best for Chocolate, chocolatier, truffles
Echo Park
Los Angeles chocolate and confections house founded in 2004 by Valerie Gordon and Stan Weightman Jr., who started with six flavors of hand-dipped toffee made in their apartment; opened the Echo Park shop in 2013.
Best for Truffles, cakes, and gift boxes from an artisanal chocolatier-bakery
Valerie Confections was founded in 2004 by chocolatier Valerie Gordon and her partner Stan Weightman Jr., who started the business out of their Los Angeles apartment with just six flavors of hand-dipped toffee. Gordon is self-trained rather than classically apprenticed, and built the company's reputation on modern versions of classic American confections — toffee, caramels, truffles — alongside elegant packaging aimed at the gifting market. The company grew from that toffee line into a broader confectionery and bakery business, adding petits fours, preserves, cakes (including wedding cakes), pastries, coffee, tea and sandwiches to its offering. In 2013, Gordon and Weightman opened a dedicated shop in Echo Park, which became a neighborhood fixture rather than just a production kitchen with a counter. As the business expanded, the pair outgrew their original space, moving production in 2022 into a 5,000-square-foot facility in Glendale. Gordon has been recognized within the Los Angeles food community for her confectionery work, including through the LA Food Bank's Chefs Circle program, and continues to run the company alongside Weightman more than two decades after its founding.
Miami / United States / Online
Founded in Miami in 2009, Cao Chocolates is a bean-to-bar maker turning single-origin cacao into bars, truffles and bonbons. Its creations, gift boxes and virtual tastings are sold through the online shop.
Best for Single-origin bean-to-bar chocolate, truffles and virtual tastings
Miami / United States
Billed as Miami's first chocolate factory, Exquisito crafts single-origin bars, bonbons and confections by hand in Little Havana from ethically sourced Latin American and Caribbean cacao. The online shop sells the full range, and the Calle Ocho choco-lab offers tours and classes.
Best for Billed as Miami's first chocolate factory, Exquisito crafts single-origin bars
New Orleans / United States
A family-owned New Orleans candy shop since 1944, Leah's makes pecan pralines, bacon pecan brittle, frosted pecans and gourmet chocolates fresh daily from 1930s recipes. Its St. Louis Street shop and direct online store sell creole candies and gift boxes.
Best for Confectioner, pralines, candy, chocolates
Lake Placid & Wilmington, New York
Founded in 1977 and known locally for decades as the Candy Man, this chocolatier has been run since 1995 by Cortland Forrence, now working alongside his sons Matt and Nate, with a Lake Placid retail shop that opened in 1997 alongside the original Wilmington chocolate factory. They hand-dip pretzels, patties, turtles and nonpareils in small batches, pulling stock in summer when the heat turns against chocolate.
Best for Handmade small-batch chocolates and fudge
North Creek, Adirondacks (Lake George region), New York
Barkeater has made truffles, bark, and caramels by hand in small European-style batches since 2008, naming itself for the Mohawk term describing the Adirondack peaks around North Creek. The maker sells from its own factory store near Gore Mountain and ships its chocolates from the same Southern Adirondack kitchen.
Best for Handcrafted truffles, bark, and caramels
Upper West Side & SoHo, Manhattan
Home of the six-ounce chocolate chip walnut cookie — a crispy exterior giving way to a molten, almost underbaked center that defines the NYC cookie obsession.
Best for Six-ounce chocolate chip walnut cookies with molten centers
Pasadena, Texas
The Chocolate Rose is a florist in Pasadena. Its in-person selection includes fresh bouquets, seasonal centerpieces, gift baskets and local delivery, with a focus on fresh flowers, occasion bouquets and local delivery.
Best for Fresh flowers, occasion bouquets and local delivery
Philadelphia / United States
Shane Confectionery has operated since 1863, hand-making buttercreams, bonbons, and clear-toy candy from ethically sourced cacao on Market Street in Old City Philadelphia. The shop sells its chocolates and confections in-store and online, alongside candy-making workshops.
Best for Confectionery, Bean-to-Bar Chocolate, Bonbons, Historic Candy
Southeast
Portland, Oregon bean-to-bar chocolate maker founded in 2014 by the Straub family; sources cacao from a single Ecuador farm and runs tasting/factory-tour shops in Northwest and Northeast Portland, including a new lab on NE Farragut.
Best for Bean-to-bar chocolate tastings and factory tours on SE Hawthorne
Creo Chocolate was founded in 2014 by Tim and Janet Straub and their son Kevin, former berry farmers who sold the family farm to move into bean-to-bar chocolate making full time. The company sources cacao directly from Hacienda Victoria, a single farm in Ecuador, and has won more than 100 industry awards from organizations including the Academy of Chocolate and the Good Food Foundation. Creo runs hands-on factory tours where visitors make their own chocolate bar. As of 2025, Creo operates shops at 629 NW 23rd Avenue and 122 NE Broadway in Portland, and opened a renovated chocolate lab and tasting space at 100 NE Farragut Street in September 2025.
Southeast
Bean-to-bar chocolate maker started in 2011 by Charley and Jessica Wheelock out of their Portland, Oregon home; now operates a manufactory and tasting cafe at 1715 NE 17th Ave in Portland's Irvington-Broadway district, producing single-origin bars from roasted cacao.
Best for Small-batch bean-to-bar chocolate made from cacao beans and cane sugar
Woodblock Chocolate began in 2011 as a home venture by Charley and Jessica Wheelock in Portland, Oregon. Charley took a chocolate-science course at UC Davis and bought hobby-scale bean-to-bar equipment; the couple started producing small batches of chocolate from raw cacao beans in their kitchen. As demand grew they moved production into their own facility, and on June 5, 2018, opened a roughly 1,500-square-foot manufactory and cafe at 1715 NE 17th Avenue, in Portland's Irvington-Broadway neighborhood, where visitors can watch roasting and bar production from the counter.
Mission District, San Francisco
Dandelion Chocolate makes single-origin bars from just two ingredients, cocoa and sugar, at its 16th Street factory in the Mission. Further locations run on Valencia Street, at the Ferry Building and on Fillmore Street.
Best for Dandelion Chocolate makes single-origin bars from just two ingredients, cocoa and sugar
San Pancho (San Francisco), Nayarit
Mexicolate makes its chocolate from native Mexican cacao ground the traditional way, along with cacao drinks. The maker runs shops in San Pancho, Sayulita and Lo de Marcos along the Riviera Nayarit.
Best for Artisanal native-cacao chocolate and cacao drinks
Ferry Building, Dogpatch, San Francisco
Recchiuti Confections crafts artisan chocolates in San Francisco, infusing them with herbs like lavender and lemon verbena sourced from local California farmers' markets. The confections and gift boxes come out of its Ferry Building and Dogpatch operations.
Best for Artisan chocolate confections and gifts
Seattle (Georgetown, Downtown)
Fran Bigelow founded Fran's Chocolates in Seattle in 1982, starting with pastries in Madison Valley before truffles took over the business. The company makes truffles and salted caramels by hand, along with Gold Bars, in Georgetown, where the shop at 5900 Airport Way S shares a former brewery building with production. Bigelow's daughter Andrina and son Dylan now run it with her.
Best for Salted caramels, truffles and gift chocolates
Fran Bigelow opened Fran's Patisserie and Chocolate Specialties in Seattle's Madison Valley in 1982. She came to it after a business degree from the University of Washington and a trip to Paris, then training at the California Culinary Academy. Cakes and pastries came first. The truffles she handed to customers waiting in holiday lines soon became the centre of the business. Her Gold Bars reached the original ten Starbucks stores in 1986 and Williams Sonoma in 1989, and Julia Child visited the shop in 1988. The Gray Salt Caramel introduced in 1998 was followed by the Smoked Salt Caramel, each winning an Outstanding Confection award. Production moved to Pike Street on Capitol Hill in 1992. In 2014 it moved again, to a LEED Platinum building in the old Rainier Brewery in Georgetown. There the retail shop at 5900 Airport Way S shares the building with production and a viewing area. Many products carry Organic and Fairtrade certifications. Bigelow wrote the cookbook Pure Chocolate and was inducted into the Specialty Food Association Hall of Fame in 2018. She has since received the association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Her daughter Andrina is CEO and her son Dylan is Director of Chocolate.
Sonoma
Global Heart is a fair trade gift shop on the historic Sonoma Plaza, stocking handcrafted goods from around the world including baskets from Bangladesh, earrings from India, and magazine bowls from Vietnam. The shop hosts weekend traditions like Sample Saturday chocolate tastings and Tranquili-Tea Sundays.
Best for Fair-trade baskets from Bangladesh, earrings from India, and magazine bowls from Vietnam
920 Main Avenue, Durango, CO
An artisan chocolatier making small-batch bean-to-bar and couverture chocolate, truffles, bonbons, and caramels on site at 920 Main Avenue. The company takes its name from the Rio de las Animas Perdidas and runs a downtown cafe alongside its confections.
Best for Small-batch bean-to-bar chocolate, truffles, bonbons
West Columbus, Ohio
A family chocolate maker founded in 1952 and now run across five generations, producing buckeyes, creams, and boxed assortments at its Columbus factory. The candy is made in Ohio and sold through the company's own stores.
Best for Buckeyes and boxed chocolates
Houston, Texas
Araya is a family-run chocolate maker with a Houston storefront and a production lab in nearby Katy, working single-origin Venezuelan chocolate into bonbons, bars and truffles by hand. The shop takes on large custom orders, from wedding favors to holiday gift boxes, alongside its everyday case.
Best for Handcrafted single-origin chocolate
Jackson, Wyoming
Chef Oscar Ortega, recognized as the first Mexican-born Chocolate Master, grew Atelier Ortega out of his original Cioccolato pastry shop in 2009 and opened the CocoLove retail boutique in 2012 to sell the line. The Jackson workshop makes competition-grade bonbons, entremets, and Viennoiserie alongside gelato and artisan bread.
Best for Artisan bonbons and pastries
North Conway Nh / United States
An old-fashioned chocolate shop on White Mountain Highway in North Conway, the Bavarian Chocolate Haus makes its truffles, fudge and confections by hand in-house. Its sweets and maple products can be bought in the shop or ordered through the online store.
Best for Chocolate, truffles, fudge, maple products
Des Moines, Iowa
Beaverdale Confections makes truffles, toffee, fudge, caramels, and marshmallows by hand on Beaver Avenue in Des Moines, using cane sugar, real butter, and Belgian chocolate with no preservatives. Everything is cooked in-house from scratch.
Best for Handmade truffles, toffee, and marshmallows
Wynwood (170 NW 26th St) / Online
The Wynwood factory runs guided tastings with more than 20 chocolates and confections, from single-origin dark bars to filled pieces. Visitors can book the experience separately from buying boxes at the production shop.
Best for Miami chocolate maker producing bonbons, bars
Bar Harbor (66 Main St)
At 66 Main Street, Ben & Bill's makes hand-made chocolates and its well-known lobster ice cream. The confectioner and ice-cream maker is a Bar Harbor Main Street institution.
Best for Handmade chocolates and lobster ice cream
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA
Big Buck's has churned its own homemade ice cream since Belinda opened the first shop in Corolla's TimBuck II center in 1994; the woman-owned, family-supported business has since grown to Kitty Hawk, Manteo and Duck. Each location pairs fresh-daily, super-premium ice cream with handmade Belgian chocolates and espresso drinks. Ice cream cakes and frozen lemonade round out a menu built for walk-up cones rather than a supermarket freezer aisle.
Best for Handmade Belgian chocolates and espresso drinks
Big Buck's traces back to 1994, when Belinda opened the first shop in the then-new TimBuck II shopping center in Corolla, North Carolina. The business has stayed woman-owned and family-supported through more than three decades of growth, expanding from that single Corolla counter to additional locations in Kitty Hawk, Manteo and Duck; the Kitty Hawk shop sits in the Buccaneer's Walk Shopping Center on the Outer Banks' main commercial strip. Each location makes its ice cream fresh daily on-site, using fresh milk, cream and sugar pasteurized into a dense, super-premium base rather than buying in a wholesale mix -- the same from-scratch approach across every store rather than a central commissary. The menu pairs that homemade ice cream with handmade Belgian chocolates and espresso drinks, plus ice cream cakes and frozen lemonade for takeaway. It suits beach-town visitors looking for a walk-up cone or sundae rather than a sit-down dessert restaurant, with the chocolate and espresso counter giving it more range than a typical seasonal ice cream stand. Three decades of continuous operation under the same family ownership is unusual for a beach-town seasonal business, and it shows in the multi-location footprint the original Corolla shop has since built.
St Louis / United States
Bissinger's has crafted chocolate since tracing its roots to 1668 France, now selling truffles, caramels, and seasonal collections from boutiques in malls across the country including two St. Louis locations. A robust online shop ships nationwide, alongside express ordering and in-store pickup options.
Best for Chocolate, Confections, Gifts
Raleigh / United States
Black & White Coffee Roasters roasts single-origin coffees and blends in Raleigh, North Carolina, and sells them through an online shop alongside two North Carolina cafes, including one located inside the Videri Chocolate Factory in downtown Raleigh. The company roasts four days a week and ships fresh-roasted orders nationwide.
Best for Single-origin roasts from Raleigh, including a cafe inside the Videri Chocolate Factory
3rd Street, Davis
An artisan chocolatier that has made truffles, fudge, and chocolate-dipped fruit in Davis for two decades. Signature gourmet truffles and sugar-free chocolate are produced on-site by what it bills as the county's only chocolate maker.
Best for Handmade truffles and fudge
Ocean City Md / United States
Family-owned since 1937, Candy Kitchen makes salt water taffy, creamy fudge and hand-dipped chocolates the old-fashioned way, with gummies, pretzels and beach novelties rounding out the shelves. Its treats sell across shops in Maryland and Delaware and ship nationwide from the online store.
Best for Confectionery, saltwater taffy, fudge, chocolate, candy
Salt Lake City, Utah (flagship downtown; multiple SLC locations)
Caputo's Market & Deli ages cheese in its own Caves and runs a craft-chocolate program with an annual Chocolate Festival and tasting classes. Cured meats and imported gourmet goods fill out the downtown flagship and its other Salt Lake City locations.
Best for Artisan cheese, craft/heirloom chocolate, cured meats, gourmet pantry
North Truro
Chequessett Chocolate handcrafts bean-to-bar chocolate in small batches at its workshop in North Truro, using cacao from Guatemala, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Colombia. The maker also collaborates with South Hollow Spirits and George Howell Coffee and uses local Cape Cod cranberries and blueberries in some bars.
Best for Bean to bar chocolate from cape cod
Washington Dc / United States
For over 40 years this family-owned shop on Connecticut Avenue has stocked European and American chocolates, from Neuhaus to old-fashioned Asher bars, for Washington, DC chocolate lovers. The shop sells in person and ships nationwide through its online store.
Best for European and American chocolates, from Neuhaus to Asher bars
Davenport, Iowa
This family-run chocolatier at 110 East 2nd Street makes toffees, caramels, creams and truffles fresh in its downtown kitchen. Seasonal flavors rotate through the year alongside the core confection line.
Best for Fresh hand-made toffees and truffles
Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
Chocolatier Joshua Needleman hand-makes chocolates, cakes and gelato at this Lenox café, in flavors like Berkshire bourbon and lavender honey. The counter also pours espresso alongside an award-winning hot chocolate.
Best for Handmade chocolates, gelato and hot chocolate
Chocolate Springs Café stands at 55 Pittsfield Road in Lenox, in the Berkshires. Everything in its case is made by hand on the premises. Joshua Needleman, the chocolatier who created the café, entered kitchens young at a Japanese restaurant called Shuji in his home state. He graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1994 and went to France to learn the classical repertoire. He later worked at Wheatleigh in Lenox and at La Maison du Chocolat before opening his own shop. By 2026 it had been trading for 22 years. The café is decorated with a Japanese restraint while the chocolate follows a European tradition. Ganaches and bon-bons share the case with mousse cakes and pieces flavoured with matcha. House flavours include green tea and lavender honey. The counter also serves gelato and pastries. Coffee and espresso are poured beside a hot chocolate that has won awards. Needleman and his chocolatiers can be seen working in the café during the day. The business is owner-run and ships only within the country because of the perishable product. Online sales pause through the summer months. A 2026 MassLive profile describes a customer base that holds through every season, including people who drive in through snowstorms for a box of chocolates.
West Des Moines, Iowa
Chocolate Storybook has made handmade gourmet chocolates on Grand Avenue in West Des Moines since 1985, hand-rolling and enrobing truffles from time-honored recipes. The shop also assembles custom chocolate gifts.
Best for Hand-rolled truffles and custom chocolate gifts
1819 McGee St, Crossroads Arts District, Kansas City, Missouri
Christopher Elbow opened his Crossroads chocolate shop in 2003, hand-painting bonbons with the lacquered, jewel-toned finish that has drawn coverage from Bon Appétit and the New York Times. Its glass cases in the Kansas City Arts District rotate seasonal flavors alongside a standing collection of gourmet truffles and drinking chocolate.
Best for Hand-painted bonbons, gourmet chocolate collections
Deadwood, South Dakota, USA
Chubby Chipmunk hand-dips chocolates and truffles at its shop on Cliff Street in Deadwood, working with fine chocolate including rare Peruvian Fortunato No. 4. The confectionery makes custom truffle collections alongside its everyday cases.
Best for Hand-dipped chocolate truffles
Madison / United States
Micro-batch chocolate out of Madison — local ingredients, cacao sourced with care, and 2018 Academy of Chocolate awards recorded on its awards page. Bonbons and bars at the Odana Court boutique, or shipped.
Best for Chocolatier, fine chocolate, micro-batch, artisan
Main Street, Cold Spring, NY
A vintage-style confectioner that makes fudge and chocolates on the premises, in flavours such as pistachio, chocolate peanut butter and coconut. The small factory and shop sits on Main Street among Cold Spring's other independent storefronts.
Best for House-made fudge and chocolates
Five Points & Downtown, Athens, GA
This family-run maker draws on the founders' Ecuadorian roots for its bean-to-bar chocolate. It turns out truffles, bars and drinking chocolate in Athens.
Best for Bean-to-bar chocolate rooted in Ecuadorian family heritage — truffles, bars
Virginia City Mt / United States
Cousin's Candy Shop has sold old-fashioned candy, homemade fudge, salt water taffy, and hand-dipped chocolates from its historic storefront in Virginia City, Montana since 1969. The seasonal shop, open May through September, also ships its confections through an online store.
Best for Old-fashioned candy, homemade fudge, salt water taffy, and hand-dipped chocolates
Old Town Eureka
A bean-to-bar maker on the Humboldt Bay waterfront at 333 First Street, producing single-origin dark and milk bars along with drinking chocolate and confections. The factory includes a tasting room and cafe pouring single-origin chocolate drinks and baking treats on site.
Best for Single-origin bars and drinking chocolate from the Humboldt Bay waterfront factory's tasting
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
This Delaware candy maker has hand-pulled saltwater taffy and popped caramel corn on the Rehoboth boardwalk since 1926. Chocolates fill out the counter, all worked by hand on the premises.
Best for Saltwater taffy & caramel corn
Carlsville / Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin
The Wilson family has roasted coffee in small batches at Carlsville since 1993, running an on-site cafe where visitors watch the roaster at work. Their range spans single-origin and flavored coffees plus regional extras like chocolate-covered and dried Door County cherries.
Best for Chocolate-covered Door County cherries and small-batch coffee
South Park
Eclipse Chocolate Bar & Bistro handcrafts close to 100 confections in San Diego's South Park, from truffles to bars. Pastries and full-service dining share the space.
Best for Handcrafted chocolate truffles and bars
Epping
Enna Chocolate crafts small-batch, bean-to-bar chocolate at 152 Front Street in Exeter, New Hampshire, using organic cacao, cane sugar, and cocoa butter that founder Enna sources directly by single origin. The shop sells individual bars, tasting sets, and a Chocolate Maker's Collection.
Best for Single origin bean to bar chocolate
Centre Street, Fernandina Beach, Amelia Island
A Fernandina Beach institution on historic Centre Street, making fudge, hand-dipped chocolates and saltwater taffy on-site. It has been a downtown Amelia Island fixture for decades.
Best for Handmade fudge, chocolates, saltwater taffy
Bristol
Farmhouse Chocolates, run by Erle and Eliza at 25B Mountain View St in Bristol, Vermont, hand-dips caramels and hand-crafts truffles using organic, fair-trade cocoa beans. The shop also sells 70%-85% dark chocolate bars in various flavors, all soy-free.
Best for Hand dipped caramels and dark chocolate bars
Flagstaff, Arizona
On North Leroux Street since 1978, when it opened as Mountain Candy, this shop makes handmade chocolates, fudge, caramel apples, and brittle. It also stocks gourmet gummies, taffy, and imported licorice.
Best for Handmade chocolate, fudge, and candy
Los Gatos / United States
A Los Gatos patisserie-chocolaterie working from French recipes for its mousse cakes, tarts and pastries. Its café pours Verve Coffee and Harney & Sons tea alongside the pastry case.
Best for French mousse cakes, tarts and pastries made with Verve Coffee and Harney
Downtown Bend (Wall & Oregon St)
Goody's has made chocolates, ice cream and gourmet popcorn in Central Oregon since 1984, when Marne and Marion Palmateer started out in Sunriver. Its downtown Bend shop, open since 1990 at Wall and Oregon streets, still works from the original recipes, turning out tons of handmade chocolate each year.
Best for Handmade chocolate and ice cream
Pleasanton / United States
Gourmet Works of Pleasanton is a specialty food and gift shop selling chocolates and confections from its storefront on Main Street in Downtown Pleasanton. The shop offers curated gift boxes both in-store and through its online shop.
Best for Specialty Food, Chocolate, Gifts
Over-the-Rhine (flagship) & Cincinnati
A family business since 1870, Graeter's still freezes each batch in two-and-a-half-gallon French pots, folding in thick chocolate chips that shatter into irregular chunks. The fourth-generation Cincinnati maker ships its Black Raspberry Chocolate Chip nationwide alongside seasonal scoops from its parlors.
Best for French pot ice cream and chocolate chips
Northampton Ma / United States
Founded in 1973, Herrell's slow-churns its ice cream and bakes kosher-certified cookies and cakes at its Old South Street shop in Northampton, with vegan No-Moo and gluten-free options. Its award-winning hot fudge, sprinkles and hot chocolate mix are also sold through the online shop.
Best for Ice cream, bakery, hot fudge, dairy-free desserts
Old Bisbee (203 Tombstone Canyon)
A café and gourmet grocer at 203 Tombstone Canyon that bakes everything on premises and serves salads, sandwiches, quiche, and pizzas with daily vegan and gluten-free options. The market side stocks imported cheeses, olives, chocolates, and pottery from India, Spain, Indonesia, and Mexico.
Best for Scratch baking and gourmet groceries
Harmon Ave & Tivoli Village, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Master chocolatier Jean-Marie Auboine, a two-time Meilleur Ouvrier de France finalist, hand-tempers bonbons, caramels, and macarons at two Las Vegas workshops rather than importing from a wholesale kitchen. His double sea-salted caramels have drawn national press, but the everyday case is stocked with panned nuts, nougat, and drinking chocolate made the same way.
Best for Hand-tempered bonbons and sea-salted caramels
Old Town (Elizabeth & Greene Streets)
Kermit Carpenter began selling key lime smoothies from a sidewalk stand outside a Duval Street restaurant in 1993, then opened this corner shop with his sister Anita and her husband John. Three decades later the flagship at Elizabeth and Greene streets still dips whole pies, pie-on-a-stick, and pie bars in chocolate by hand, alongside key lime juice, taffy, and fudge made to the original family recipe.
Best for Whole key lime pie dipped in chocolate
Greene Street, Old Town
This Greene Street bakery hand-makes its key lime pie daily from a century-old family recipe, pressing real key lime juice into a handmade graham-cracker crust rather than relying on bottled concentrate. Beyond the classic whole pie, the shop turns out mini pies, pie cups, and chocolate-dipped bars, and runs its own pie-making classes for visitors who want to take the technique home.
Best for Visitors who want to take the technique home
Reno, Nevada
Kimmie Candy is a small family-run candy maker in Reno specializing in panned and chocolate-covered sweets. A retail store sells them at the source.
Best for Panned and chocolate-covered sweets made at the family's Reno candy factory
Grandview (Goodale Blvd), Columbus, Ohio
Established in 1898 on Goodale Boulevard, Krema roasts nuts by hand in small batches and grinds fresh peanut butter on-site. Its shop sells nut butters, chocolate-covered nuts, and candies made in-house.
Best for Fresh-ground peanut butter and roasted nuts
Village of East Davenport, Iowa
A family confectioner since 1908, Lagomarcino's makes hand-dipped chocolates and pours old-fashioned sodas at its East Davenport shop at 2132 East 11th Street. The counter is known for house-made hot fudge and boxed chocolates alongside a working soda fountain.
Best for Hand-dipped chocolates and soda fountain
Church Street, Pine Street
Lake Champlain Chocolates has made truffles, caramels and hot-chocolate mixes in Burlington since 1983, working from a Pine Street factory with a shop on Church Street. Its bars and boxed assortments lean on Vermont cream and honey, and the factory store sells fresh truffles and seconds.
Best for Vermont truffles and chocolate bars
Napa Valley
Le Belge Chocolatier is handcrafted in the heart of Napa Valley by Chef Sebastien Beline, who grew up in a fourth-generation French chocolate shop in Le Mans and trained at Patisserie Laduree in Paris. The chocolatier hand-shaves ingredients and tempers chocolate in small batches, offering truffle collections, signature bars and wine pairing collections.
Best for Small-batch french chocolates
Milwaukee / United States
Leon's Frozen Custard has served its vanilla, chocolate, and daily special flavors from the same South 27th Street stand since 1942, still owned and operated by the founding family. The neon-lit drive-in keeps a full soda fountain and a short sandwich menu, and sells its custard by the pint and half-gallon to take home.
Best for Vanilla, chocolate, and daily-special frozen custard from a neon-lit drive-in stand running
Findlay Market, Over-the-Rhine
A bean-to-bar chocolate maker at Findlay Market that roasts, cracks, winnows and stone-grinds cacao from single origins into small-batch bars. It also turns out drinking chocolate, truffles and a cafe menu built around its own chocolate.
Best for Stone-ground single-origin bars, drinking chocolate
Mendocino / United States
This coastal candy kitchen in Mendocino County hand-makes truffles, chocolates, fudge and confections in small batches. Its shops in Mendocino and Fort Bragg and its online store sell gift boxes, assortments and seasonal collections shipped with care.
Best for Chocolate, truffles, confectionery
Jackson, Mississippi
Nandy's Candy hand-makes pralines and chocolates in small batches at its shop on East Northside Drive in Jackson, run by owner Nancy King. The company also holds a licensing partnership to produce handmade chocolate Rotary International emblems.
Best for Handmade pralines
Naples Fl / United States / Online
Founded in 2001 by former Ritz-Carlton pastry chef Norman Love, this Southwest Florida chocolatier crafts artful bonbons, bars, macarons and gift boxes recognized repeatedly among America's best. Its chocolate salons and direct online store sell assortments, build-your-own boxes and gifts.
Best for Chocolatier, bonbons, confections
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Old Kentucky Chocolates hand-produces regional confections such as Old Kentucky Bourbon Chocolates, Derby Mints and Chocolate Thoroughbreds from its Lexington kitchens. The shop also keeps a recipe for Old Fashion Pulled Creams, an old-fashioned hand-pulled candy tied to the city's bourbon and horse-racing culture.
Best for Bourbon-filled chocolates and Chocolate Thoroughbreds as Kentucky gifts
Campus 805, Clinton Ave W, Huntsville, Alabama
Sisters Michelle Novosel and Caitlin Lyon opened Pizzelle's Confections in 2013, hand-making chocolates and confections they call edible art, and the shop now operates from Campus 805 after starting at Historic Lowe Mill. The business has won Small Business Administration awards in 2018 and 2023 and USA Today recognition for its chocolate.
Best for Handcrafted chocolate and confections
Rhinebeck, NY
Samuel's Sweet Shop is a candy and coffee shop on East Market Street in Rhinebeck. Founded by Ira Gutner in 1994, it continues to sell chocolates and other confections alongside baked goods and coffee. The shop stayed open after a change of ownership following its founder's death, retaining its place as a small stop in the village centre.
Best for Candy, chocolate and coffee in Rhinebeck
Since 1994, Samuel's Sweet Shop has sweetened Rhinebeck, a small upstate New York village that punches well above its weight in celebrity residents. The Sweet Team behind the counter has included Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Hilarie Burton and Paul Rudd, and the shop's national television run — the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning — suggests the candy holds up to the attention.
The signature pieces earn it. "Over the Tops" pack peanut butter cups between double-stuffed Oreos and drop the whole thing in milk chocolate; Almond Buttercrunch dips its toffee in milk chocolate and rolls it in almonds; and a Signature Bark works dark chocolate with cherries, almonds and sea salt into something closer to a confection than a candy-bar knockoff. A peanut butter cup blondie recently drew a feature in People Magazine, and the shop has picked up Best Candy Store honors from the Hudson Valley and Best Dessert at the local Taste of Rhinebeck.
Coffee — from Partners, a New York roaster — rounds out the counter alongside baked goods, but the chocolate is what built the shop's thirty-year run at 42 East Market Street, one handmade batch at a time in a village where everyone seems to know everyone, famous or not.
German Village, Columbus, Ohio
In the heart of German Village, this shop cooks fudge in copper kettles and cools it on marble tables using Belgian chocolate. Alongside classic and seasonal fudge it hand-dips chocolates set with pecans, caramel, and peanut butter.
Best for Handmade fudge and chocolates
Leavenworth, Washington, USA
Schocolat opened in 2007 to bring Belgian-style truffles and bon-bons to Leavenworth's Bavarian-themed downtown, and passed in January 2018 to Charissa DeMoss, who had apprenticed under founder Susie Johnson. The shop still hand-makes its chocolate on site rather than shipping in a wholesale line.
Best for Handmade Belgian-style truffles and bon-bons
Somerville
Somerville Chocolate, started in the spring of 2012, is a bean-to-bar chocolate CSA in Somerville, Massachusetts, delivering multiple bar "harvests" that showcase variations in the chocolate-making process. The company uses cacao from origins including Ghana and Peru and also sells bars through area specialty stores.
Best for Bean to bar chocolate csa
Red Hook
Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pie bakes fresh-squeezed key lime pies at a Red Hook waterfront shop, including the chocolate-dipped frozen 'Swingle' on a stick. The bakery presses its lime juice rather than using concentrate.
Best for Key lime pie
O'Bryonville
Open in Cincinnati's O'Bryonville neighborhood since 1983, The BonBonerie is known for its chocolate-chip Opera Cream Torte, served only at room temperature, alongside buttercream layer cakes, tarts and a full afternoon tea service, Monday-Saturday.
Best for Opera Cream Torte, a chocolate-chip-studded scratch cake served at room temperature
The BonBonerie has run as a scratch French-style patisserie and tea room in Cincinnati's O'Bryonville neighborhood since 1983, working out of its Madison Road storefront for more than four decades. Its signature is the Opera Cream Torte, a dense cake studded with chocolate chips that the bakery insists be served at room temperature rather than chilled -- refrigeration firms up the filling and dulls the flavor, so the torte is meant to sit out before it's cut. Alongside the torte, the kitchen turns out buttercream layer cakes, cookies, tarts and almond-glazed pastries made to order, plus custom cakes and cupcakes for events. The attached cafe runs a proper afternoon tea service on top of its regular counter menu, giving the shop a dual identity as both a scratch bakery for takeaway treats and a sit-down tea room. Hours are limited by design -- Monday through Saturday, 10am to 4pm, closed Sundays -- keeping the operation focused on baking and service. More than forty years on the same street corner, with one torte recipe still doing the heaviest lifting for the shop's reputation, The BonBonerie reads as a bakery that built its name on getting one thing exactly right before expanding the rest of the menu around it.
Dock Square, Kennebunkport, Maine
Open in Dock Square since 1983, The Candy Man hand-makes turtles, fudge, and artisan chocolates using old-fashioned candy-making methods and local suppliers. The family-run shop also sells penny candy and saltwater taffy, and stops shipping its chocolate turtles each summer to protect them from melting in transit.
Best for Handmade fudge, turtles, and saltwater taffy
Hilton Head Island, SC
A chocolate and confections shop making handmade milk and dark chocolates, truffles and fudge on-site since 1982. The store at 55 New Orleans Road sells its molds, cordials and taffy alongside boxed gift assortments.
Best for Handmade chocolates and fudge
Washington Dc / United States
In Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood, The Chocolate House stocks more than 300 chocolate bars and confections from artisan makers around the world in its tasting room and boutique. Customers can shop in person at 1904 18th St NW or order online for pickup or delivery.
Best for 300+ artisan chocolate bars and confections from around the world
1423 Market Street, Chattanooga
On Market Street, The Hot Chocolatier hand-makes truffles, bonbons and its signature chocolate squirrels alongside pastries and specialty drinks. The downtown shop has built a following for European-style confections crafted in small batches.
Best for Handmade truffles, bonbons and pastries
Philipsburg Mt / United States
The Sweet Palace is a six-time TripAdvisor "#1 Candy Shop in the US," handcrafting fudge, chocolates, and saltwater taffy in small batches in Philipsburg, Montana since 1998. The historic candy emporium sells its confections both in-store and through its online shop, which ships nationwide.
Best for Confectionery, Fudge, Saltwater Taffy, Chocolates
Spring Street
This Spring Street bakery has built a Northern Michigan following on oversized chocolate-chunk cookies baked from a family recipe. Boxes ship across the country for those who cannot make it back to Harbor Springs.
Best for Chocolate-chunk cookies and mail-order boxes
Raleigh / United States
Videri Chocolate Factory makes bean-to-bar chocolate at its Raleigh factory, where visitors can take a free self-guided tour with complimentary tastings or book a guided tour led by the chocolate-making staff. The factory shop sells bonbons, bars and drinkables both on site and through its online store.
Best for Bean-to-bar bonbons, bars, and drinkables, with free self-guided factory tours in Raleigh
St Augustine / United States
Whetstone Chocolates has been hand-crafting chocolate seashells, truffles, and fudge in St. Augustine for decades, with three storefronts around the city including its factory shop and tasting-tour location on King Street. Shoppers can buy in person or order online, with treats like the America's Collection sea shells shipped Monday through Thursday.
Best for Chocolate, Confections
German Village, Columbus, Ohio
An Ohio family confectioner and coffee roaster dating to 1962, making chocolates and roasting coffee sold through its own cafes. The German Village shop pairs house chocolates with espresso and pour-over coffee.
Best for Hand-rolled buckeyes on a generations-old recipe, paired with house-roasted coffee since 1961
Winans has been making chocolate by hand in Ohio since 1961 — the company's own site puts it as "handmade since 1961" — and its signature product is the buckeye: a peanut-butter center hand-rolled and dipped in chocolate using a recipe passed down through generations, famous enough in Ohio to be treated as a category of its own rather than just another candy. Coffee roasting joined the chocolate business over time, and today the two are sold side by side — single-origin and flavored beans alongside buckeyes and a proprietary Wurtles line — through cafes that pour both espresso and pour-over next to the chocolate case. The German Village shop in Columbus is one of at least a dozen Winans locations across Ohio, spanning towns from Celina and Marysville to Piqua, Sidney, and Wapakoneta, with some towns carrying more than one location. Seasonal drinks like a Strawnilla cold brew sit alongside the standing chocolate and coffee menu. It's a combination that's unusual to find under one roof — a confectioner and a coffee roaster growing up together rather than one added on as an afterthought — and Winans has kept both going for more than six decades.
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