Brand new this week. A chocolate shop making handmade chocolates. Specially conmmisioned items are…read moreavailale. Go along and have some samples and you will be back for more. The flavours are excellent and they are all made from the finest ingredients. A tiny shop but a real find.

Most amazing chocolate experience ever! Not only do they…read moresell Hand-made. Belgian Chocolates they do parties for adults and Kids! Leave your youngsters for a fun filled couple of hours of chocolate making and entertainment. It's really good! 01246 234900

I ordered my daughters 18th birthday cake from Chocolate by design and wow its stunning in fact its…read morebetter than stunning its amazing the whole experience from fisrt going into order the cake to even having it carried to the car was second to none I cannot thank or praise the staff highly enough for their help I also ordered some chocolate football items from here as well for a chocoholic football mad 21 year old and yes they were amazing as well am I impressed by this shop and its staff you bet I am will I be using them again you bet I will

this is a lovely little sweet shop and café . I love the aesthetic of the shelfs with the glass…read morejars filled with sweets! the staff are all very nice and friendly. the hot chocolates are amazing I've become a fan of the vegan hot chocolate personally but I ask for it extra milky and the staff are happy to oblige me. the location of the shop is perfect sometimes i bring a reusable cup and ask for my hot chocolate in said cup then go for a walk around the botanical gardens. oh! And they have ice creams in the summer that are to die for! i tell all my friends its a must if your visiting Sheffield.

The most amazing shop I have been in for a long time. Beautifully styled with old sweet shop jars…read moreand candy striping. This shop offers a unique sweet experience. You can buy handmade chocolates, penny sweets, speciality chocolates such as chili or spanish drinking chocolate...... In the back room they sell flavoured teas and you can sit and have a gorgeous cup of cocoa, served with a tiny nutmeg shaver and spices to add yourself. They also do chocolate parties which sound like my idea of heaven!

A rather different mix - a chocolate shop but also a hand-crafted jewellery shop. Something a…read morelittle bit different! The chocolate shop is all about luxury and ideal if you are looking for a special gift or just want to treat yourself (and quite rightly too). The hand-crafted jewellery is by mum and daughter design combo Kathie and Hattie Grimes. The jewellery has a very unique form and delicate. Types of jewellery iclude bracelets, earrings, necklaces and rings. The little showroom/ workshop nestles under the eaves of the Grade 11 listed shop on the first floor. Downstairs is the chocolatier part of the shop with a wide wide range of traditional sweets. My favourite are the chocolate farmyard including a milk chocolate owl, a white chocolate sheep, a white chocolate green frog, a milk hedge hog, two white chocolate pink pigs and two mice, one milk and one white. Soooo sweet! Totally awesome! P.s. if you can't get to the shop you can order online - don't miss it!

This is a nice Hotel Chocolat location, located on James Street in Harrogate town centre. It…read morefeatures a store and a small Cafe area, they manage to pack a lot into the space they have, without the store feeling too cramped. It is a premium chocolate brand, so the items are more suited for gifts than your day-to-day chocolate needs. The store inside seemed to match the high-end brand, it was presentable and modern, and the staff seemed average. They even had some of their own brand of alcoholic spirits too which sounded interesting. Sadly they didn't seem to be any sampling going on in-store on my recent visit. Opening Hours are in line with other shops in the town, closing at 17:30 Monday to Saturday, and an hour earlier on Sundays - not great but seems to be a problem throughout Harrogate's town centre. 4*

Service was excellent! Our server Poppy was so lovely! Can't wait to go back next time im in…read moreHarrogate!

Simon Dunn is a god. He must sit on his cloud over Mount Olympus looking down at us mere mortals…read moreon Earth with smug satisfaction that we cannot live without him and worship at his holy feet. His chocolate is a modern day religion with thousands of followers, so for the unconverted and chocolate atheists amongst you, I will attempt to knock on your doors, Jehovah Witness style and preach the teachings of this guru. I first stumbled upon this chocolatiers in leafy Wilmslow when my friend's little boy Ethan was celebrating his third birthday there. What a great idea! Why haven't I ever held my birthday party in a chocolate shop? I walked through the doors and entered a paradise where the aroma of home made chocolate being prepared on this heavenly premises drifts in clouds around the shop. Everyone seemed entranced in a chocolate stupor. This is DAMN good gear. I know a lot about eating chocolate and not too much about making it, but the chocolatier informed me that Simon Dunn's chocolates have over 70% cocoa and this my yelpers makes it divine.So the party was located upstairs and Simon Dunn's had done all the catering. It was absolutely excellent and we all remarked that it is rare to attend a toddler's party and the food is directed at children and adults alike. This was no regular party food consisting of a few sandwiches and jelly and ice cream. Oh, no, there were chicken wings, humus and crudites , samosas, pickles, fruit, olives, ...the list goes on. fantastic fare and everyone loved it. As this was a chocolate party, the owner Simon's delicious son gave a demonstration of his chocolate making prowess and I have never seen so many mothers pay attention so avidly in my life! Melted chocolate was poured into moulds, chocolate heart lollies were personalised by the children themselves. Simon Dunn also takes his chocolate parties on tour and will come to your home or place of work providing you own a microwave for melting and the parties are priced at £12.50 per person. This is an interactive Willy Wonka of a chocolate factory and I urge you to go.

The food was excellent. I got cheese and onion pie (lunch) and tried the chocolate challenge…read more(which we failed dismally). The chocolate was to die for...totally scrumptious. The service was really good with friendly and knowledgeable staff. I'll be back for sure. The prices were good also. The seating was good and the wait was not long ( although I booked ahead of time).

The best Patissier and Chocolatier in North Manchester…read more Any time I drive into Manchester (which is very often) I have to drive past Slattery's and always manage to make some excuse to pop in. I shouldn't have to make an excuse to go here - It's excellent. The ground floor is their outstanding chocolate and cake shop - definitely worth spending some time here tasting and choosing what they have on offer. Their selection of over 40 celebration cakes on display are stunning - you'll find yourself staring at them like some sort of art. A few of the wedding cakes are pushing £1,000.. asking if it would be worth it? For me, yes! Their cakes are amazing - no wonder Wayne Rooney bought his wedding cake from here and had it shipped to Italy. You'll find me with my face pressed up against the viewing window where you can watch the cake decorators working hard to perfect these masterpieces *drool* I'm certainly not planning my wedding or anything but I already know that there's a massive possibility that my cake will be from here. On the first floor is an elegant restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and of course CAKE. The menu is fab and I haven't heard anybody mention a bad word about it. I have yet to visit the restaurant and I hear that unless you book weeks in advance you've no chance of getting in, but this only makes me want to try it even more and it is certainly on my list. In the past I have bought baskets from here and made my own hampers, mainly for family or friends at Christmas time - consisting of chocolates, hand make cakes, biscuits, marmalades, wines etc (all locally sourced). Safe to say these always go down well. If you have a sweet tooth, this is somewhere you should definitely visit.

On a light industrial estate outside Leyburn, plenty of parking. Walk through the shop into the…read morefactory. Big picture windows let you spy on a woman bashing a tea towel with rolling pin. Three giant chocolate fountains (tempering machines) are mildly hypnotic. That's pretty much the extent of the factory, basically they melt chocolate and pour it into moulds. The star attraction is yet to come, however... Then you can sit on a school form bench to watch "the story of chocolate" DVD on a burnt-in projector. Don't miss it, ask the lady in the shop to start it up, you're in for a treat! To the accompaniment of Mantovani style sweeping strings a soporific woman reminiscent of the Caramel rabbit, or perhaps Nigella Lawson, narrates, really enjoying saying "cocoa butter". Then you see real people showing the moulding process, with occasional lascivious interjections from Nigella: "making the fillings", "take a look in the gift shop where you can buy all the chocolate you desire". Kitsch taken to the nth degree. Plenty of laminated thank-you notes from local schoolkids on the wall, obviously a popular attraction, I bet it's not for the DVD though. Shop selling overpriced overpackaged chocolate at the exit.

The few times I've been to Buxton I've nipped in here to just to drool over the amazing chocolate…read moreselection but never actually got as far as buying anything or staying for more than a few minutes. This time, with minus temperatures outside and snow up to our armpits (almost), it was a necessity to stop and sit somewhere with a hot drink and something indulgent and I'm so pleased we did. It's only a tiny little shop with four or so tables squished in the middle but it was the perfect place for a pit stop and the homemade hot chocolate, made with real chocolate and topped with marshmallows and chocolate flakes was hot, thick, rich and delicious- you even got a little chocolate served on the plate if your blood sugar levels hadn't already rocketed. All the chocolate is made onsite and they have an amazing selection, just a pity I was feeling chocolate-d out when we left to pay - next time I'll buy my choccies to take home beforehand!

Every Christmas my parents buy me a special box of pink Marc de Champagne truffles from Charbonnel…read moreet Walker. And every year I still get as excited as the first time I received them! Charbonnel et Walker is a charming little shop covered in pretty little boxes of different truffles in a variety of colours. From drinking chocolate, to after dinner treats and Laurent Perrier champagne, it prides itself in fine chocolates and gifts. I can guarantee that anybody would be thrilled to recieve a box of delicious truffles from here. The best sellers are usually the Pink Marc de Champagne truffles (try them and you'll see why!) They have a sale on right now in the Victoria Quarter so it's definitely worth a wander to pick up some lovely stocking fillers.