Chocolatier Constance Popp Shop

This gem of an artisan chocolate shop in Winnipeg’s historic French Quarter is must visit for locals and tourists alike. There’s always something new to see and taste with every visit!

A store of amazingness! I keep coming back for more simply because I can’t get the same quality of the pistachio chocolates from anywhere else in the province.

This is supposedly the best chocolate shop in Winnipeg. On my last day visiting Winnipeg (where I grew up), I decided to bring home some sweets to my family who were missing me. I bought a Manitobar and some maple bacon chocolate bark.
The Manitobar was really good. From the ingredient list, which included nuts, seeds and grains which are grown in Manitoba, I thought this was be more of a granolar bar dipped in chocolate. This was not. It was kind of like a truffle with a crunchy base. It was delicious.
The maple bacon chocolate bark was ok. I thought the maple bacon was over cooked to the point of almost burnt — it made the bacon pieces taste almost artificial. The chocolate coating was way too thick on it too making me wish I was eating either just chocolate or just bacon.
Overall, the shop was bright, clean and spacious. The was a male sales staff who was friendly and helpful. But I couldn’t help but notice the signs everywhere asking not to touch the glass display shelf or this or that. I found that attitude to be pretentious and unfriendly and for this reason I will likely not return or recommend this chocolate shop. I have been to numerous other excellent chocolate shops where the proprietors are much friendlier and the environment is more welcoming. It was also curious to note that their coffee came from a single serve machine.

Chocolatier Constance Popp makes fresh premium artisan chocolate. This chocolate shop has moved from west portage, under the Richardson Building and now finally to Provencher in St. Boniface. The shop is beautifully designed — white space, reclaimed wood floors, with lots of chocolates on display. There’s chocolates in fun different designs and flavours ranging from solids, truffles, barks and peanut butter cups. There’s even a good selection of bon bons with flavours such as Manitoba red beet with pepper, caraway seed and sea salt; banana port and caramelized hazelnut bits etc. Chocolates are pricey since this is a specialty shop that hand makes chocolates. Each bon bon chocolate is $ 2.25 each and 3 small peanut butter cups were $ 8. The bon bons had interesting flavours and some were more exotic than others and are worth a taste. The pb cup was good with a harder darker chocolate encasing the peanut butter.
They also serve up Cornell ice cream (made locally) with their own specialty flavour that’s only sold at this shop.
Service was very friendly and helpful.