What Frederic Blondeel is known for
Frédéric Blondeel roasts cacao and makes chocolate at an atelier in Koekelberg, Brussels. His range includes single-origin tablets and pralines, with chocolate-coated biscuits among the other creations. The Rue de Ganshoren shop also serves coffee and hot chocolate, alongside its ice-cream offer.
Frédéric Blondeel combines cacao roasting with chocolate making at his Koekelberg address in Brussels. Coming from a family of coffee roasters, he applied that roasting background to cacao, working with beans from South Asia and Latin America. The process begins before the chocolate is shaped into a finished gift.
His account describes low-temperature roasting adjusted to the character of the beans. Single-origin tablets sit alongside pralines and chocolate-coated biscuits, with ingredients such as Japanese tea or Sicilian nuts used in different creations. The origin of a cacao bean and the place where the chocolate is made therefore describe separate parts of the product.
The shop at Rue de Ganshoren 39 also has a coffee and ice-cream bar. Hot chocolate offers another way to try the maker's work without choosing a boxed assortment first. The ice creams are made by Blondeel, with several flavours listed by the shop. Choose between a gift to take away and something to enjoy at the bar, checking the actual assortment rather than assuming every flavour is always available.
How ORBIS reads this city
Best for — Bean-to-bar chocolate, pralines and a coffee or ice-cream stop
Chocolate made at Frédéric Blondeel’s atelier in Koekelberg, Brussels, Belgium.
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