How to find your favorite chocolatier in Brussels
Updated on December 8, 2022 by pierre
How to find your favorite chocolatier in Brussels?
Rest assured, finding your favorite chocolatier in Brussels is much easier than finding a needle in a haystack! Here are some tips for find the chocolate shop of your heart in our beautiful capital. Alongside major brands such as Neuhaus ou Leonidas, there are lots of small artisanal chocolate makers in Brussels
The good Belgian Chocolate? Test, Test, Test!
The best way to find your favorite chocolatier is to try several. Our recommendation: no longer buy ballotins but prefer to buy four or five pralines instead which you can choose yourself according to your preferences or following the seller's advice. This approach is better for the line, the budget and also allows more chocolate makers to be tested more often. Finally in these periods of heat, it is very difficult to keep chocolate at home in good conditions, so it is better to refuel in smaller quantities but more often!
If you have want to taste only one praline, do not hesitate to ask the sellers: in most cases this unique praline will be offered to you free of charge by the house.
Go off the beaten track
To discover his favorite chocolatier, consider thinking outside the box. Stay away from the pedestrian streets of the city center and the square that I like to call "La Place Chocolat" that is to say Place du Grand Sablon. Venture into the other municipalities of Brussels, test your local chocolatier, the one at the bottom of your desk, etc. The best discoveries are sometimes made with the most discreet chocolatiers.
Here are two good examples:
1. The chocolate maker Herman Van Dender in Schaarbeek
Here is a chocolatier who is a supplier to the court of Belgium. There, we love the blue dome with forest fruits, the milk chocolate & saffron ganache, the dark chocolate & passion fruit ganache! The icing on the cake: the black trianon: a milk chocolate ganache, covered with a very fine nougatine and bitter dark chocolate... a true delight ! http://www.vandender.eu/
Chaussée de Louvain 416
2. Another very good address: Vandenhende in Etterbeek
You have to taste their original cuberdon ganache & honey ganache from the hives of the Parc du Cinquantenaire. This family shop is also known for cooking the best chocolate fondant in Brussels: advice to amateurs! http://chocolatier-vandenhende.be
Wavre Road 643
What if in fact the best chocolate maker in Brussels was you?!
As the saying goes " you are never better served than by yourself ". It is likely that the chocolates you prefer are actually those that you prepare yourself with the ingredients of your choice. Admittedly, making chocolates is quite complicated and requires a bit of equipment and raw materials, but this exercise is not reserved only for professionals!
You can participate in courses on the theme of chocolate, we recommend those of the Mmmmmh cooking school and the chocolate factory Zaabar. (Edit: Mmmmh cooking classes no longer exist)
If you need a helping hand in discovering the best chocolatiers in town, you can also join brown gold-themed tours.
