Blommer Chocolate Company

The fragrant smell throughout the city I’d because if this place! A tiny gift shop but tasty treats inside! Get some chocolate! Stop by for a visit!

I am totally in love with this chocolates!!! The test is amazing!!! In my opinion better than Godiva, believe me!!! Besides, they have some options without sugar, that is very attractive for people who tray to keep on diet ;) (like me hahaha)
Ahhhh the service is really nice, guys!!!

Where we stayed was a five minute walk from Blommers and a zero minute walk to get wafts of chocolate floating through the air.
After walking five minutes which I’m sure burned loads of calories that were immediately replaced with chocolate, we had arrived. It is a small store open to the public but it’s packed with different kinds of chocolate goodies.
We started grabbing anything that looked good and ended up with 7 small bags of assorted chocolate dipped pretzels, fruit, nuts and graham crackers. The whole tab was a touch over $ 32 which made it not only good but affordable chocolate! The chocolate is above average and while not the best chocolate ever, it is tasty and smells like heaven.

Love their chocolate. It’s made Right on the spot at the chocolate factory. Excellent selection of truffles, chocolate covered raisins, almonds, cashews, macadamia nuts, coconut clusters .My favorite is the dark chocolate macadamia nuts .love this solace. Support local! Buy, eat local !!!

I don’t know too much about chocolate but eating this didn’t hurt my throat. Silly, I know but that’s how I gauge chocolate. Cheap chocolate like from local no name stores leaves this feeling in my throat that makes me want to cough. I tried all 6 of the basic chunks of chocolate at this store, and they were all good and smooth. Taste test passed! Highly suggest the white but then again chocolate is a highly subjective.
Moral of the Story: check out the chocolate that makes Chicago smell like chocolate chip everywhere.

Immediate reaction after visiting the chocolate store: small store but a lot of different treats at a reasonable price.
When I was a child and my friends parents used to drive me to the buddhist temple to learn Thai and we would always pass through downtown and I would smell the smell that was like a mix between Burnt and more burnt and like clockwork I would have a reversal of fortune (could have also been from the jerky car driving by my friends dad), either way, we always pass this place on bike rides in the city and with finally having a day off I decided to take a run with my wife to the chocolate factory, feeling like I won the golden ticket we arrived and went into the main entrance with an additional door to a small store, aka no tour that I was aware of so no oompa loompas (sigh), which while small had every type of chocolate confections you could want bagged and ready to go, prices seemed reasonable, not cheap but not expensive, you could even buy huge chocolate bars as big as your torso, we settled on a pound of chocolate covered almonds (13 bucks) and half a pound of dark chocolate covered pretzels (2.50), also we got to sample some chocolates they had out which was nice and we took a lot of samples without any issues or weird looks, so if you making fondue or just want some chocolate or some chocolate covered something, check out this Chocolate factory store.

If they had plant tour or window to look at over production, I would’ve given it a five. They have a little store that you can go in and buy some of their chocolates, and chocolates made by other manufacturers. They are a wholesaler. And even Giradelis buys from them.

Do you like the smell of burnt chocolate wafting towards you from every direction with a 1.5 mile radius of this place? Want a migraine that’ll stick around for a few days? Visit the factory and maybe go on a tour and buy something over-​priced from the giftshop. Willy Wonka doesn’t work at Blommer’s.

Manage expectations here and you’ll be just fine.
Like other reviewers, I’ve been driving by this location for years and finally stopped in after work last week. There’s a very pedestrian room that sells chocolate to the masses for what seem like reasonable prices, be it bulk chocolate or chocolate-​covered anythings. They do a few samples – I had white chocolate-​covered pretzels, but had to pass on the chocolate peanut brittle – and they have a few other snacks in the store besides just the chocolate.
Just know that you have not heard of Blommer’s before because it’s not like they are vying for the Godiva level of chocolate making (or locally, at Vosges, where you can drop huge amounts of dough to eat a truffle). Blommer’s just makes chocolate, and that chocolate is tasty. Most of you don’t spend $ 8 for a Hershey Kiss-​size truffle anyway so get over it! It’s chocolate, and chocolate is great, period.

Love when you’re on the highway you can smell chocolate in the air. Finally made the journey inside and was told they didn’t have a tour for the day. Got some chocolates there, but wasn’t overly impressed. Definitely need to revisit again.

I have a love/​hate relationship with this store. First, the negative. I work just two blocks south of the factory, and depending on how the wind is blowing, the aroma surrounding Blommer’s ranges from «faint odor of brownies baking» to «super pungent sickly sweetness that makes me want to give up chocolate forever.» Not their fault, though; it’s all part of running their business.
They do have a small store that is open to the public. The employees are friendly and helpful, and the prices on the wide variety of candy are cheaper than you’ll find at a drugstore for the mass-​marketed garbage. Bön-​bons, chocolate covered nuts, pretzels, etc. And it’s not just chocolate: I’ve gotten gummy worms there and there are other sugary (but not chocolatey) delicacies.
It’s a nice place to pop in for a simple and affordable hostess gift that supports a small and local (and long-​lasting) business all the same. The store doesn’t have evening hours, so try to get over there on your lunch break.

From my point of view, you wouldn’t expect a factory that primarily processes and supplies chocolate to be good at supplying us lowly consumers with good tasting snacks. (The guy in front of me ordered $ 3,400, or somewhere between 500 to 1,000 pounds, of chocolate. No matter how you chop it, that’s a *lot* of chocolate.)
Fortunately, I was proven wrong!
I picked up two quarter-​pound bags of milk-​chocolate covered malt balls and milk-​chocolate covered raisins. This only set me back $ 6, so that made me happy.
Even better, the chocolate properly adheres to both the raisins and the malt balls. It’s a fairly thick covering for both, but not overwhelming; the balance was right. There is a deeper, richer cocoa flavor in their chocolate, compared to the cheap, big guys (Hershey’s, etc.).
The malt balls themselves were very crispy and spiked with malt flavor, and the raisins moist and plump. Definitely no complaints there.
What I didn’t know was that there were dark chocolate-​covered malt balls and raisins. I’ll try them next, but in the meantime I sampled Saratoga Dark chocolate from a large, large bar. Above all things, I thought this chocolate was smoky and wonderfully bitter, and probably would make great fondue.
I’m inspired to break out a chocolate cookbook after visiting Bloomer. Maybe I’ll go full-​out chocolate connoisseur.
I’ve passed the factory a hundred times or so, and yesterday was the first time I’d actually stopped to see what was there. It won’t be my last, that’s for sure!

This review is simply for the Blommer Chocolate Store. I did not take the tour, so I cannot speak to that experience.
In a word, magic.
The shop itself isn’t that big, but they have a little something for everyone. It took all my strength not to buy a chocolate bar the size of a small child, which is a ton of restraint considering that I sometimes dogsit nearby and can smell the chocolate being processed all the time. It also answers the question of why I often smell what I thought was cocoa mulch in the nearby communities.
My intent was to pick up some treats for my sweet on his birthday. This year, it happened to fall on Sweetest Day, so the store was a happening place. However, it didn’t get overly crowded and the employee working the register was able to help everyone who needed it.
One of the nice things about the store is that many of the items are available in various sizes. That allowed me to get what I knew we’d love in bulk and to try out a few of their candies in a more moderate size. I ended up leaving with a bag of Milk Chocolate Toffee Covered Pretzels (the best!), half a dozen Milk Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods, a smaller bag of Strawberry Licorice Bites, Milk Chocolate Covered Cranberries, and a smaller bag of Jordan Almonds. All of them were good and I would gladly buy any of them again. How much for all this bounty? Only $ 20.20!

FINALLY I FOUND IT !!!
I was looking for a place that sells real chocolate baking chips (not the wilton candy mealts) for my cakepops and other treats and I was surprised to find this place actually by a Unilocal review !!! they have big bags of around seventeen dlls each of milk chocolate chips and also white chips… it’s a very small store but they have a bunch of little bags filled with oter chocolate candies like almonds, cranberries, cashews, etc. Highly recommended it !!!

Yes, the smell is wonderful. The chocolate? Just average.
Their chocolate pretzels are delicious and very fresh. Their peanut butter melts are pretty tasty (like peanut butter cups).
But just straight dark chocolate? Not as great as the smell in the air.

If you wonder why downtown Chicago or west loop smells like dark chocolate some days: this is it! I never really knew they had a little store until I went exploring the area jogging one day and stumbled across the store: they have many products made from other companies using their chocolate, samples allowed and also many other non-​chocolate products. A tasty way to support local businesses, I think I will come here for holiday candy this year!

I’ve seen this place before, but have always been in a rush. Today, I literally got lost and ended up right in front of this place. I mean, of course that meant «TAKE YO BUTT IN THERE, GIRL». So obviously, I listened. Wow! I was expecting to walk in and embarrass myself by not wanting to pay $ 12 for a piece of chocolate, but it was so affordable! It’s a little store with mostly chocolate, but they do have candies such as gummy bears and so forth. They have disks and chips of chocolate for those bakers out there and then they have the actual delicious chocolate you want to stuff your face with… or «give to friends». Isn’t that the same thing?
They sell by ½ lb or by the lb and you can ask for samples. I purchased the toffee pretzels for 5.50 the lb and the milk chocolate coffee beans for $ 7.50 the lb. That’s cheaper than the crap candy stores inside of malls sell, I believe those for for $ 8 the lb. I also love that you know when it was packaged, both of my bags were packaged on the 25^th. 5 day fresh chocolate from the factory? YES PLEASE!

I passed the place many times and was always attracted by the smell of chocolate. So, today we finally made it to the store to buy some dark chocolate. The lady who works there was super nice and gave us to try chocolate (and she gave us huge pieces to try, so by the end of our visit I felt stuffed with chocolate). They have a good choice of chocolate and I would definitely go back.
They also have delicious ice cream from the factory that uses their chocolate in production. Vanilla ice cream covered with dark chocolate! Delicious!

WHY oh WHY do you not offer tours? This is what I asked the friendly shop worker, who told me that the equipment is old and dangerous. Even when I offered to sign a risk of death is okay waiver, he denied my request. :[
The smell alone outside and inside the main entrance/​store is enough to make your day. If you love chocolate like I do, spend some time in this neighborhood. Mmmmmm!
Inside the store they have many varieties of chocolates. Candies too, but I doubt the candies are made in-​house. My friend had a question about the different versions of milk and dark chocolates and it was answered wisely by one of the employees.
I love that this is such a historical Chicago place, I adore the smells that waft outside day AND NIGHT; I just wish they offered tours!

People should feel privileged that this place is even open to the public. I purchased chocolate from here last winter and make customized candy bars for my friends and family (even purchased a double boiler from Amazon!). Every single person asked me if I was going to make them another candy bar this year because they were so good! The chocolate from here is outstanding and one of a kind. OBVIOUSLY it’s expensive because hello you are purchasing from a chocolate factory! This isn’t Hersey’s chocolate with wax in it. This is the real deal.
And all these people who expect a Willy Wonka experience are DELUSIONAL! Seriously??? I am laughing so hard right now! hahaha This is a place of business. A factory, not some fictional Roald Dahl book. Maybe Charlie Bucket’s grandfather will hop out of bed and come dance for you in front of the factory too! And if it doesn’t happen you can give this place 1 star!