Hotel Chocolat

I dare not go into Hotel Chocolat too frequently for fear of becoming bankrupt! Their beautiful and unusual chocolates are all too tempting, and with their upmarket price tag, are not for every day consumption. A fabulous shop to buy a gift for a chocaholic friend. They even sell ‘chocolate’ wine, which is lovely but, I have to admit, does not taste of chocolate. Try their 100% cocoa bars if you dare!

If you’re looking for elite chocolate this is the place. Luxury chocolates, however quite pricey. This is the sort of place you would go to buy that special someone something rather delicious. However for you chocoholics out there, you should avoid this place. It is very easy to get addicted to it!

A really spacious attractive store with an amazing selection of chocolate and chocolate related goods. When I visit this Cambridge shop I’m usually approached with a tray of freebie chocolate to try … How can you refuse?! Most chocolate is veggie but I like to check anyway. There is always something affordable to buy from the small selections at the back of the shop. A lot of the products are fairly expensive but they’re usually for gifts so you tend to pay a bit more for other’s.

Excellent range of chocolate, some a little over-​priced but generally very high quality. A brilliant place to look for gifts, including hot chocolate powders, beautifully packaged chocolate selections, and chocolate nibbles for children. They also let you taste the goods sometimes — it’s worth popping in for that reason alone!

I once read that the highest quality chocolate satisfies after one piece, and with Hotel Chocolat I discovered this is true. It is not cheap, but the six chocolates in a packet are rich, flavoursome and mouthwateringly superb.
The entrance is dominated by tempting (but highly priced) giant slabs of chocolate in a wide range of flavours. Beautiful in appearence, they make excellent gifts for the person who has everything (except enough chocolate, there is never enough chocolate). At the rear of the shop the selections of small packets of six chocolates are helpfully arranged by chocolate colour, fruit and nut selections. The varieties change regularly, which keeps you coming back for more
I would not recommend this chocolate for children; too expensive. Buy them a bar of the ordinary stuff, and save this initiation for when they are old enough to appreciate it!

The chocolate brown walls make you hungry for chocolate before you have stepped foot inside the door. As you enter, the smell of coco hits you, and the chocolate-​lined walls draw you towards them. Row upon row of choice, hotel chocolat offers the widest choice of chocolate in Cambridge.
Chose between huge slabs of chocolate or little truffle boxes, hot chocolates and shapes molded out of chocolate. One thing is for sure — you wont leave without an arm full of chocolate.
The staff seem very well trained, and very good at recommending different chocolates.
However, compared to Thorntons this is the much pricier option. If you are on a budget, this place in not perhaps for you.
Great for valentines day and dinner party gifts.

Delicious paradise. On which the Sun more glad impress’d his beams.
To have thought up a place like Hotel Chocolat is a feat surpassing all else. A Hotel — for chocolate? Well, it’s not exactly that, but still every aspect of this goodly haven has surely been designed and implemented with secular precision — from the layout and atmosphere to the chocolate itself.
Dark chocolate? No problem, see right-​hand wall, back of the shop. Berries? You got it! Swirly mixtures of toffee and chunky crispy bits? Say no more. Hotel Chocolat has combinations to choose from that will leave you spellbound for hours. Just drifting slowly through the shop is an amazing experience, and every lovingly-​crafted artefact (for that’s what they are; these aren’t chocolate bars) is placed perfectly on its shelf like a museum piece. The speciality of Hotel Chocolat appears to be thick, swirly slabs with other wonderful treats sunken in; slabs ranging from pocket to pillow-​sized.
With its dark, moody walls and pristine layout, its hard to imagine that this is a shop at all, or a hotel for that matter. Paradise, however, it may well be.

Everyone likes to receive some fancy chocs. And Hotel Chocolat is amazing. They sell real chocolate from all over the world in all different formats. The big boxes are the best! On weekends they often offer up tastings of choc bars in store, so get down there and make sure you take a few people who dont like choc to take some spares.
Now they offer an online purchasing option too and you can even get updates on the latest collections. So no excuses!