Truffles Chocolatier is a great little store offering locally made treats!…read more We opted for their Butter Toffee & Clotted Cream Fudge Hardish candies so don't expect soft, melt-in-your-mouth morsels & you'll be fine. After all, it's all about the flavor, right?! Fresh, organic ingredients & nice taste.....wonderful rememberence of our stay at the home of Shakespeare

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Hotel Chocolat is every chocoholics dream. From the moment you walk into the shop the beautiful…read moresmell of chocolate hits you - it's great! They have an amazing range of chocolate - boxes of choc, choc slabs, choc bars, drinking choc - you name it, they have it. This is the perfect shop to buy a gift or just to treat yourself. I guess it is more expensive than normal chocolate but it tastes so great that you will be willing to pay the extra. There website is great too which I have used a few times & each time the service has been 5*. They have a chocolate tasting club too (all details can be found on their website) which I would love to join one day. You really should visit Hotel Chocolat - it really is a lovely shop.

It pains me to give Hotel Chocolat only three stars, as I would so love it to be five. Back in the…read moredays when Hotel Chocolat came by mail order only, and then via the website, their chocolates were truly exceptional. The tasting club was a complete treat and the Christmas chocolates sublime. Sadly, the new ranges are something of a disappointment to me. I really don't like the chocolate slabs, despite trying different flavours in the hope I'll find my dream treat. I'm not keen on the big chocolate boxes. Some of the little chocolate collections are delicious, particularly the marzipan and nuts. The other half loves the caramel chocolate buttons and I still reckon the rum soaked sultanas are the closest things to chocolate perfection I can imagine. But overall, the range of chocolate is nowhere as fantastic as it used to be, perhaps because the other chocolatiers are catching up. The shop itself is dark and seductive, and there are often chocolates to try. The staff are friendly and helpful, and there is really nothing to dislike about the place. The cost is still expensive, but the relative cost of different items is sometimes inexplicable and does not seem to be related to the ingredients. I just wish they were as much ahead of the game now as they were five years ago.

Stumbled across this store selling loose teas and coffee. Wonderful selection of oolong, black,…read more and green teas. I even picked up an Alice in Wonderland tea strainer!

This place is tucked out of the way, not on a main shopping street, so you're not likely to stumble…read moreacross it unless you make the effort. It is worth going to though, as they do a good range of fruit and vegetables at a very good price - you can make substantial savings on supermarket stuff. Obviously their stock varies according to season quite a bit, so you are better off browsing than having set ideas on what you want to get (beyond the basics). The quality is variable, but you can choose for yourself rather than having to buy polythene bags full of stuff. It seems to keep pretty well too. Traditional greengrocers, worth making a detour off the Parade for.