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Truffles and caramels feature at Bissinger's Handcrafted Chocolatier, whose present-day boutiques include two locations in the Saint Louis area. Krönner makes pralines and Baumkuchen through a family chocolate business dating to 1759, with shops in several Bavarian towns. Its handmade range also includes sugar-free and vegan chocolate, alongside the cakes and pralines at the counter. Bologna's Majani created the four-layer Fiat cremino in 1911 for the Tipo 4 launch, following its 1796 founding.
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
Altstadt (Alter Markt)
This artisan chocolaterie makes its pralines by hand at Alter Markt 46-48, in a building from 1584 that the shop describes as the former oldest pharmacy in Cologne opposite the town hall. The counter carries house lines such as the Picasso pralines plus bars, drinking chocolate and workshops, using fair-trade cocoa from Tanzania and Belgium.
Best for Handmade pralines in the old town
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria
Krönner has run as a family chocolatier since 1759, now in its ninth generation across shops in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Straubing and Murnau. Its handmade range includes Baumkuchen, pralines and sugar-free and vegan chocolate.
Best for Hand-scooped pralines and Baumkuchen from a ninth-generation chocolatier
Krönner has operated as a family confiserie and chocolatier since 1759, and the business is now run by the ninth generation of the Krönner family, with current contacts Franz Krönner and Antonia Pfefferle listed on the company's own site. The main shop sits at Achenfeldstrasse 1 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, with sister locations extending the family business to Straubing and Murnau, all in Bavaria. Production is described as handwerkliche Fertigung, artisanal, handworked production, using high-quality natural ingredients and deliberately avoiding additives and preservatives; the range includes sugar-free chocolate and vegan options alongside the traditional line. Signature items include Baumkuchen, described on the site as a soft butter biscuit baked in individual layers, along with hand-made pralines and truffles. The family's history has drawn outside attention too: a Bavarian public-television documentary, 'Unter unserem Himmel: Vom Lebzelter zum Chocolatier' ('From Gingerbread Baker to Chocolatier'), covered the business's transition across generations. Across nearly 270 years and nine generations, Krönner frames itself less as a shop that happens to be old and more as a family craft that has adapted, from Lebzelter to chocolatier, while staying in the same hands.
19 avenue du Prado, 13006 Marseille, France / Marseille / France
A confectionery-chocolate shop in Marseille, created 1760 as a colonial-goods importer; family Dromel later invented a sugar-loaf cutting machine; Corsiglia confectioners since 1896; shop moved from rue de Rome to 19 avenue du Prado on 3 July 2010.
Best for Oldest confectionery-chocolate shop in Marseille, created 1760 as a colonial-goods importer.
Bologna / Online
Bologna's chocolate house since 1796 — the Fiat cremino. Cremino Fiat (1911) was commissioned as a four-layer cremino for Fiat’s Tipo 4 launch; official page says the classic recipe is unchanged and about 5 million are made each year.
Best for The Cremino Fiat.
Via de' Carbonesi (city centre)
Majani has made confections since 1796 and created the four-layer Cremino in 1911 for the launch of the Fiat Tipo 4. Its historic Bologna shop sells the Cremino, Scorza dark-chocolate flakes, and boxed pralines.
Best for Cremino and heritage chocolates
Montargis / Loiret / Online
The Prasline de Montargis — the caramelized almond that gave the praline its name — was created in the town in 1636, and Maison Mazet has made it since Léon Mazet bought the recipe and opened his shop in 1903. Pralines and house-made chocolate are produced at its lab in neighboring Amilly, and the firm has held France's Living Heritage Enterprise designation since 2016.
Best for Praslines de Montargis and house-made chocolate
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.
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