when it comes to chocolate i like good quality, i mean dont get me wrong, there is a place for cadburys and galaxy, but for me when i crave chocolate it has to be good stuff. So in a quest to rind said good quality chocolate i logged on tho the laptop and searched for chocolate. After looking through several average looking sites, i came across Hotel Chocolat. And i was IMPRESSED. Internet shop The site was very well set out, and very easy to navigate. The different boxes and bars of chocolate were all in different pages. For example: For him had quite plain boxed chocolates and for her had more colourful boxes and designs. The instructions were ...  Read the complete review

~~~~~~~~~~~ HEAVEN & HELL ~~~~~~~~~~~ I have an incorrigible sweet tooth and a particular fondness for chocolate. Unfortunately, I also have Type 2 Diabetes, which I suppose is analogous to cheese lover with a dairy intolerance. Who said life was fair? That said, the consumption of chocolate is not actually prohibited to diabetics, as long as a beady eye is kept on blood sugar and the emphasis remains firmly on quality rather than quantity. As such, I have developed quite the discerning palate when it comes to premium chocolate, on the reasonable premise that if I can only have small amounts of it, it may as well be bloody good. Having ...  Read the complete review

~*~ Hotel Chocolat ~*~ I am a big chocolate lover. I'm so bad that I can't actually have any chocolate in my house because as soon as I buy it, I eat it, therefore I make sure when I do buy chocolate I buy single bars or packs, even if 1kg of Galaxy is being sold for 50p because my hips will suffer the consequences otherwise!! I don't usually shop for normal 'everyday' chocolate in specialist chocolate stores, but this Easter I was looking for something special for my boyfriend and decided to give this store a go. I'd had a couple of items from the store in the past and was satisfied, and thought that, given how expensive the chocolate is, it must ...  Read the complete review

Hotel chocolat is a high end chocolatier with an online store and also a few concessionary stores in some branches of John Lewis. They are quite ethically focussed with their chocolate being grown in St Lucia and Ghana where the cocoa farmers receive an ethically fair price for their work and a fair price for their cocoa. Despite the name, it is not actually anything to do with a hotel although in the latest advertising brochure they sent me it does say that they have now actually built a hotel you can stay at in St Lucia to see the cocoa being grown etc. Now I wouldn't mind that for a holiday...St Lucia and chocolate tasting mmmm! Hotel chocolat basically ...  Read the complete review

I discovered Hotel Chocolat quite recently considering that the company has been around since the 90's, originally starting as a catalogue based company before opening their first store in 2004. My nearest Hotel Chocolat store is a good hours drive away from me in a city I do not go to often, but when I heard about the company last year and was in the area I decided to pop in and see what all the fuss was about! On walking into the store, I was immediately impressed by the sleek and sophisticated image that the company has created by using modern and seductive branding. The products were packaged in sexy black sleeves and boxes and many of which showed the ...  Read the complete review