Chocolats Privilege

good chocolate? yes!
expensive? yes!
but its still worth a stop if you’re in JTM. what i enjoy when i’m too lazy to walk north of the market is their hot chocolate as its probably the best deal out there being less than $ 3. it may not be the best you’re drinking but it satisfies the craving which is the important part

Chocolats Privelege is a very nice small Chocolate shop selling local made cocoa products! They have an excellent selection of both milk chocolate and various blends of dark chocolate with almost anything you can imagine inside! The chocolate is of high quality and texture (important in chocolate). It appears to be one of the only local chocolate places in the Marche (if you don’t count Première Moisson).
I bought some milk chocolate and it was really nice creamy and had a great flavour!
Excellent spot for the chocolate lover or sweet tooth!
Price is higher than you would pay for a bar chocolate but it feels good to support a local business and not always Nestle, Cadbury or Mars!

One word … Awesome.
Worth a visit if you are in Montréal. Our eyes were bigger than our bellies the day we stopped by. I purchased some chocolates as a gift also, however they never made it back to New York.
Delicious!

I love this place. I wish they had a better website, because I would order all of my chocolates from here. Gourmet and sophisticated chocolate store. One of the best I’ve ever seen. I brought home a box of cookies for some friends and they were obsessed. The best place to go for artisan chocolates. Hands down.

Loved the citrus basil, though my brother wouldn’t be bothered with it. What he was thrilled with was their chocolate tart. Before we left the market, we stopped in again and blew more money on their chocolate. I think that the sales lady was surprised to see us twice in one day.
Chris R. gives more info on their unique chocolate combinations and I’m sad that I didn’t see his review since we skipped the delicious sounding spreads. Boo. We did get the double chocolate bread, though. It is exactly as Chris R. described it– not so sweet. But I’m still enjoying it three days after purchase (not sure how I didn’t attack this right away) and to Chocolats Privilege, the bread isn’t as dry as sand. At $ 3.85, it was a steal even if it wasn’t super rich or chocolate-​y.

chocolats privilège is a small maison du chocolat located at the awe-​inspiring marché jean-​talon.
their truffles are good, and locally (i’m based in new york), i would compare them flavor and quality-​wise to jacques torres chocolates. aside from some typical flavor combinations, they offer some that are unique like szechuan pepper, and citrus-​basil. there are also several different single origin chocolate truffles.
what makes me want to give this place four stars are the chocolate spreads they have. the choco-​noisettes douceurs à tartiner is like a super high end nutella. this chocolate hazelnut spread is so good i feel bad for mentioning it in the same sentence as nutella, but a point of reference is needed.
another spread was even better: the Érable-​Fleur de sel. i bought one jar on sunday, consumed the jar by the spoonful that evening, and on monday i drove all the way across town to stock up on this before leaving this beautiful city. i won’t say how many jars i picked up, because i’m not into publicly embarrassing myself. i will say that this caramel fleur de sel had the best balance of salty and sweet that i have ever come across, and i *still* feel like i didn’t pick up enough.
the only disappointment was their chocolate bread. it looked so dark and dense and rich but, appearances were deceiving, and it didn’t taste as much of chocolate as was expected.
they even carry discs of couverture for baking, from all the major chocolate houses. lots of single origin discs as well.
the prices are reasonable, and the people that work here are nice. i’ll be returning every time i visit montreal so i can squirrel away jar after jar of chocolate and caramel goodness.