Montréal’s best chocolate shops
We have our fair share of exceptional chocolate shops spread through the city. We’ve listed some of our favourites below by neighbourhood, so you can head to the one closest to you when a chocolate craving hits or when you need an exquisite gift for any occasion, especially Valentine’s Day. We’ve also listed some local shops that have online boutiques. We have no doubt that you’ll find a favourite among their many creations, from molded crispy bars to rich, decadent truffles or luscious, stuffed bonbons.
Downtown/Quartiers du Canal/Pôle des Rapides/Southeast
Divine Chocolatier
For over two decades, chocolatier Richard Zwierzynski has specialized in the time-honoured traditions of classic chocolate-making by hand and in small batches to ensure freshness.
2158 Crescent Street
Lecavalier Petrone
These unique and gorgeous chocolates made by two young chocolate creators and their dynamic team are so different from all other bonbons you’ll find around town. Each piece is a hand painted work of art with colourful specks, stripes and splatters. The chocolates are as delicious as they are pretty.
2423 Centre Street and several other outlets
Rosemont/La Petite-Patrie/Little Italy/Villeray/ Hochelaga/North of the Island
Marius et Fanny
Dozens of differently flavoured and colourful fine chocolates are available at this most-loved Plaza St-Hubert “pâtisserie provençale”.
2006 Saint-Hubert Street
Bonneau Chocolatier
Using the best quality chocolate and no added sugar, Bonneau makes exquisite chocolates, including some made with Québec maple whisky Sortilège and others filled with intense fruit flavours. They also offer a bean-to-bar collection made from a variety of Peruvian cocoa beans.
69 Fleury Street West
L’Heureux Chocolats
From boxes of gorgeous assorted chocolates to a collection of bars, all the fine creations here are imbued with master chocolatier Joane L’Heureux’ decades of experience.
5180 Beaubien Street East
État de choc
This gorgeous minimalist boutique highlights and sells chocolates from all of Québec’s bean-to-bar makers and works its chocolate into customized bars and bonbons. The signature dark chocolate, corn and chilli pepper mini bar is particularly tasty. État de choc also offers workshops where chocolate lovers can make their own bars and enjoy a chocolate tasting. All of their products are also on sale online.
6466 Saint-Laurent Boulevard
Avanaa
Visit Catherine, one of the handful of bean-to-bar chocolate makers in Montréal, in her tiny Villeray workshop, where you can taste and buy her single-plantation chocolate bars, hot chocolate mixes, and other confections. These incredible, hand-made chocolates can also be bought online and at several stores around town.
309 Gounod Street
M. & Mme Chocolat
This Petite Patrie chocolate shop is run by a couple who are passionate about all things chocolate. They offer high quality chocolate bars, boxes of chocolate bonbons as well as gourmet bars stuffed with homemade quality confections such as praline and caramel.
273 Beaubien Street East
Arioum Chocolats
This artisanal chocolate shop doubles as an art gallery and café, with the two owners coming from a cooking and fine art background respectively. It has been offering boxes of assorted fine chocolates, bars, caramels, spreads, hot chocolates, ice cream and more since 2017.
2080 Gouin Boulevard East
L’Affaire est chocolat!
Rosemont’s L’Affaire est chocolat! is known for their excellent hot chocolate but they also make some exquisite chocolate bonbons by hand in about 30 flavours such as Szechuan pepper and mango, bourbon vanilla and Earl Grey tea. They also offer chocolate bars, mendiants, and more specialties.
2350 Beaubien Street East
Qantu
Qantu’s background starts with a love story between a Québécois man and a Peruvian woman and continues with their passion for chocolate, more precisely, Peruvian cocoa beans which are used to make their incredibly delicious and award winning bean-to-bar chocolate bars that can also be found at a lot of stores around town and online.
4560 De Rouen Street
Plateau-Mont-Royal/Mile End/Outremont
Allô Simonne
Multi-award winner Allô Simonne’s single-origin, bean-to-bar chocolate bars are gorgeous works of art, whether we’re talking about their design or their excellent flavours. The coffee-flavoured one in collaboration with local caffeine purveyor Pista is particularly delicious, as are the Montréal and Canada bars, which make excellent souvenirs.
5550 Fullum Street, local 402
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Les Chocolats de Chloé
All the chocolates of this adorable shop are made by hand in its open kitchen. The truffles and bars are delicious, but the Monsieur Croquant, a chocolate-covered sponge toffee concoction, is always a favourite.
546 Duluth Street East
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Fous Desserts
Beloved pastry and chocolate shop Fous Desserts has been a local favourite around the Plateau neighbourhood for the past 20 years. Their handmade chocolate bonbons are unique, stuffed with homemade fruit or spice ganaches, pralines and caramels. As for their chocolate bars, those are made from premium chocolates (dark, milk, white or blond) to explore the subtleties of the cocoa flavours.
809 Laurier Avenue East
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Chocolats Andrée
Open since 1940, this is the oldest chocolate shop in Montréal where they still make everything by hand and use vintage molds for their confections. After closing for a short period, the store was reopened by Luxemburg-based chocolaterie Genaveh, who continue to make the traditional house specialties.
4440-B Saint-Denis Street
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Pastille Chocolaterie
Artisanal chocolatier Edith Bédard operates this charming neighbourhood chocolate shop where she makes beautiful stuffed bonbons, seasonal molded chocolates and various other specialties.
5090 Fabre Street
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Amango Cacao
Gogbeu and Lydie, two chocolate lovers from Côte d’Ivoire, created Amango Cacao in order to support cocoa producers in their home country and Tanzania and help them attain a better quality of life. At their little shop on Bernard Street, they take great care in preparing high-quality, fair-trade chocolate, including many vegan treats.
1226 Bernard Street West
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Chocolats Monarque
This small Mile-End chocolate producer makes a small collection of award-winning, single origin bars with carefully selected beans. Their bars contain no soy, nuts or dairy.
5333 Casgrain Street #308
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Online
Christophe Morel
Award-winning chocolate maker Christophe Morel makes some of the best chocolates in Montréal. His chocolate bars are first class, his bonbon boxes are elegant, and his chocolate sculptures are legendary (although they are just for admiring).
Ernestine
The surprising flavour combinations as well as the fun, vintage packaging with a hint of nostalgia make Ernestine quite unique. Everything is handmade in their workshop and the colourful confections are available online and at several stores. Try the cherry bombs or anyone of their bars.
Le Comptoir Chocolat
Organic and fair-trade chocolate wrapped in gorgeous signature paper makes these products distinctively elegant and great for gifting.
Barbon
Barbon uses high quality single-origin, fait trade, organic beans to make their small batch handmade bars, which are 100% vegan and wrapped in recyclable packaging. You can purchase them online or at some select stores.
Rebel Chocolates
Rebel is an online chocolate shop based in Montréal and specializing in the sale of artisanal and ethical bars using chocolate from a handful of makers, including Montréal’s Qantu. They also make organic and fair-trade liquid cocoa for hot chocolate. You can buy their chocolates on their online boutique.
Chocolat Dicitte
Chef Franck Dury Pavet had accumulated a 20 year or so experience as the chocolate maker at Fous Desserts before founding Chocolat Dicitte, his eco-conscious and responsible venture. The cocoa beans are carefully selected before being processed at his workshop and turned into an exquisite collection of bean-to-bar tablets. Their chocolates are sold online as well as at several retailers.
Chocolat Boréal
From careful sourcing to eco-friendly packaging, everything at Chocolat Boréal is selected to fit their mission of making great chocolate responsibly. Their line of Nordic-inspired bonbons is especially enticing with local flavours such as maple, sea buckthorn or balsam fir infused into the high-quality chocolate. A vegan line of products is also available. You’ll find these chocolates online and at some retailers.
Choco de Léa
Choco de Léa is a vegan and eco-friendly, bean-to-bar chocolate factory. Chocolate maker and owner Léa creates seasonal specialties, fondues, and beautiful bars topped with interesting local ingredients such as Labrador Tea or toasted buckwheat and Saskatoon berries. You can purchase her creations online.
Mayssam Samaha
Mayssam Samaha is a food and travel writer and blogger and the founder behind the blog Will Travel for Food. She travels the world in search of the next culinary discovery. From Iceland to South Africa, she’s already visited over 36 countries and there’s nothing she enjoys more than wandering around a farmers’ market in a foreign city. She is also the founder of the SAISONS intimate dinner series highlighting Québec products and chefs.