Rococo Chocolates

Confectioner

Rococo is London’s wittiest chocolate shop. Chantal Coady has a great eye and packs the shop with chocolate treasures from foil-wrapped bumble bees to wild animals, and hand painted chocolate cats. For Valentine’s Day you will be overwhelmed by an excess of hearts. After several years as a chocolatier, Chantal confessed she now prefers ‘simple’ chocolates and her organic ‘artisan’ bar from fits the bill. Made with a 65% cocoa content (which includes cocoa from her own trees in Grenada) and infused with such flavours as Earl Grey tea, thyme, cinnamon or sea salt, they are startlingly original, with their delicate flavours and textures from the flavouring ingredient. She also sells Grand Cru bars from named cocoa beans, and Rococo House bars, including a 100% cocoa solids.

The house truffles she sells are made on the premises at Motcomb St. There is also a Traditional English Hand-dipped range in ‘the Charbonnel & Walker mould’. These are mainly fruit- or flower-scented creams, such as lavender, rose, violet, banana, geranium and raspberry.

Recently she has launched her own square house truffles using Manjari chocolate which is made with the Criollo cocoa bean. The Criollo has an extraordinarily vibrant fruity flavour and, as a result, her truffles are imbued with it. The ganache, a simple confection of double cream, Normandy butter and chocolate, is hand-dipped in chocolate to give it the thinnest of crunchy shells and then rolled in cocoa. Bitter-sweet with a heady fruitiness that reminds you of raspberries, these are markedly good truffles.

Opening hours: Tue-Sat 10 - 18.30