Coco Chocolate

I so love this place! I attended Chocolate School at their kitchen, and went to visit the shop afterwards — divine to see all the packaging and the gorgeous shop interior! The staff were so lovely and offered us samples of the bars we were interested in! We felt very spoilt by the time we left with our purchases!

I love that fact that everyone who reviews Coco Chocolate has their own personal favourite flavour. I’m voting for dark chocolate with cranberry, cinnamon and nutmeg — but I’m certainly not above the rest either.
Save your pennies, this treat does not come cheap, but I’ve definitely reached an age where a little of the good stuff far out-​weighs a slab of the average. You can choose the dainty wee pralines, but I’m more for the uneven chunks, broken at random from the tempered slab with visible nuggets of fruit.
Sample tasting is generous — evidence of their confidence that you’ll head to the cash register for more. For in-​store indulgence, prop up at the trestle table at the back for a coffee with your treat and have a chat with the staff — they’re as addicted as you are.
Next stop: the recently opened Coco Chocolate Studio at Middle Head to see the chocolatier in action.

This is chocolate to be savoured. Held on the tongue in tiny pieces until it trickles towards your throat. Organic. Dark. Delicious chocolate for adults.
The packaging is beautiful and reminds me of my Grandpa tobacco pouch — bound with the secret of the forbidden contents within.
I love the Earl Grey Dark Chocolate, as well as the Lavender Milk Chocolate. The flavours are so refined and elegant, it’s hard to stop at one pouch. In fact I don’t think I ever have.
If you’re a bit so-​so about chocolate this shop will elevate you. It’s hard not to be as passionate as the owner Rebecca clearly is.
They have another shop in Kirribilli too.

Walk in to this chocolate store and you can instantly see why it was the 2010 winner of the Specialty Business of the Year. This store is so quaint and charming that you feel you’re in a Parisian chocolatier.
Coco Chocolate is a specialty organic chocolate shop that makes all sorts of tasty wonders to whiz your head into a spin. You won’t get the cheap additives (like vegetable fat and powdered milk) that bulk up the mass produced chocolates as Coco uses, as they say, ‘expensive cocoa and cocoa butter’. And well, these expensive ingredients do translate of course to expensive chocolates. The thing is with this organic chocolate compared to other organic chocolate is that it is packaged in boxes that are quirky, original and beautiful — keepers they are — so are more gift chocolate than daily indulgent chocolate.
A favorite is the Organic Handmade Dark Chocolate With Rose & Black Pepper made with 64% organic dark chocolate, organic ground black pepper and 100% pure rose oil.
One last thing that I’m sure is worth a mention — tastings… in store.