Where to buy the best Christmas chocolates in Paris Region?
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- Where to find Christmas chocolates with an original touch in Paris Region?
As the year draws to a close, let the festivities begin! Christmas shopping is high on the list when it comes to merrymaking. To treat yourself and spoil your loved ones, visit the shops of Paris Region’s top chocolate makers and confectioners. You’re sure to find something to please everyone, from the sweets of your childhood to luxury chocolate creations. A delightful and deliciously original way to celebrate Christmas and the New Year.
Alain Ducasse, the taste of excellence
In 2024, Alain Ducasse’s chocolate factory is offering you the most gourmet of ballets for the festive season. The company is celebrating Tchaikovsky’s fairytale ballet, The Nutcracker! For Christmas, chocolate is adorned with magic! The star dancer, the Mouse King and the Sugar Plum Fairy are in the limelight, in a collection full of creativity and elegance. A pas de bourrée and a pas chassé, from square to square, the Advent calendar accompanies you until 25 December. Designed by the talented Lou Benesch, the gentle, poetic calendar plunges you into the enchanting world of Hoffmann’s fairy tale. Throughout the 24 panels, you can discover the very best of Alain Ducasse’s Manufacture de Chocolat creations: pralines, chocolate dragées, as well as nuggets and marshmallows. And the highlight of the show awaits you in the last square.
And if you’re looking for a lovely gift to put under the tree, our range of Christmas gift sets should delight you. Nutcracker and Mouse Kings with hazelnut praline or the inevitable Chocolate Tree, a box of truffles, a block of chocolate to break… you’re bound to find something to please your loved ones. And don’t forget the Hexa-chocolats, Ducasse’s famous geometric creations, or the bonbonnière de Noël, which will be adorning the windows of the famous boutique for Christmas.
Patrick Roger, the sculptor
If you’re looking for a truly original gift, look no further. Patrick Roger is an artist who likes to sculpt chocolate into various mineral or animal forms. His giant creations are vibrantly life-like amid the window displays of his different boutiques. This audacious creator revisits chocolate like nobody else, with his shiny half-spheres that are almost too beautiful to eat. For this Christmas, the chocolate maker, voted one of the best in France, has created an elegant, limited-edition gift box containing a selection of ganache and praline milk and dark chocolates as well as his iconic multicoloured spheres.
Gilles Cresno, the inescapable
Winner of the City of Paris Chocolate Grand Prix, Gilles Cresno is an artisan with a passion who shares his taste for excellence and sweet delights through his chocolate creations. In Paris, everybody who is anybody visits his shop in Rueil-Malmaison, just west of the capital, to try his exclusive creations.
His speciality? Chocolate in highly original flavours such as pepper, mojito, basil, tea and many more clever combinations that will delight any chocolate lover or sweet tooth curious enough to try them.
So for Christmas 2024, why not pop under the tree a box of his speciality assortment, or opt for something more traditional like a box of candied chestnuts or truffles from the chocolate-maker’s workshop. A delightful and delicious way to celebrate Christmas and the New Year.
La Mère de Famille, the Mamma
La Mère de Famille is the ultimate address for children and adults who have a sweet tooth. With its Belle Époque shopfront, mouthwatering displays and all the great classics of French confectionery it has to offer, this boutique makes a delicious nod to the sweets and chocolates of our childhood. Treat yourself to some marshmallows, boiled sweets, pralines, chocolates and other delights, to revive your most delicious childhood memories.
For Christmas, the artisan chocolate and confectionery maker is offering a limited edition of a delicious Advent calendar designed by Anouk Ricard, in the form of a cheerful bestiary. Behind each of the windows and doors of this miniature reproduction of the historic boutique are the company’s specialities, including dark, white and milk chocolates, caramels and fruit jellies… A delicious countdown to Christmas. You can also fall for their classic boxes of chocolates and sweets such as lollipops and calissons, for a humorous end-of-year celebration.
Le Cacaotier, the traveller
At Enghien-les-Bains, just north of Paris, Le Cacaotier invites you to take a journey packed with flavour. A traditional chocolate maker since 1995, Hubert Masse shares his passion for quality chocolate via his boutiques in Île-de-France and Normandy, with creations inspired by his gourmet adventures around the world.
This Christmas, chocolate is in the limelight in a tender Advent calendar. In a box decorated with a charming illuminated village, 24 windows reveal dark and milk chocolate chips, as well as pralines and hazelnut balls, to the delight of children… and adults. This gourmet box also includes the timeless ballotin of truffles, or the assortment of pralines and ganaches, as well as the Christmas sweets and the Saint Nicolas, which will make a real impact under the Christmas bunting.
Find out more about Le Cacaotier.
Le chocolat des Français, the designer
The creations of Le Chocolat des Français are easy to recognise by their crazily colourful packaging. Established in 2004 by three chocolate-loving artists, this chocolate shop gives pride of place to the art of chocolate and novel creations that offer a feast for the eyes as well as the palate. Le Chocolat des Français has joined forces with the best French chocolate makers and more than 400 artists to produce pop-arty creations that won’t fail to catch the eye of those who know art isn’t just a visual affair.
To enchant your end of year celebrations in 2024, the chocolate of the French invites you to a fabulous magic show! With her magic wand, the artist Maïté Franchi will take you into an enchanting world with her Advent calendar where each little coloured box offers you a sweet treat. On the coffret, ballotin and bauble side, Christmas trees perform magic tricks, Father Christmas casts spells and snowmen juggle with fire. Their contents are just as enchanting: praline-filled chocolates, bars of dark, white or milk chocolate, truffles, coated hazelnuts… Gifts for a magical Christmas.
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Alléno & Rivoire, alternative delights
For Christmas 2024, try these amazing chocolates containing neither sugar nor cream, for delicious taste without the guilt. With a most surprising recipe containing birch juice, Alléno & Rivoire is revolutionising the world of chocolate.
Between their mendiants made for sharing, their boiled sweets to hang on the Christmas tree and their beautiful signature gift boxes, the end-of-year festivities promise to be deliciously chocolatey with Alléno & Rivoire. These two great chefs invite you to visit their boutique in the 7th arrondissement of Paris to discover the true taste of cocoa!
Edwart Chocolatier, the artisan who spices things up
When it comes to chocolate, the young chef Edwin Yansané ventures off the beaten track. The artisan with the tattooed arm and hat permanently placed on his head is well known to the Paris smart set for his bold creations with spicy flavours that bring out the best in the cocoa. At Edwart, the chocolate with pepper, the Madras curry praline and the ganache truffles made with kaffir lime zest make each mouthful a gourmet journey in its own right.
Every year Edwart dares to combine tradition and the avant-garde with advent calendars designed by a tattoo artist. For Christmas 2024, in collaboration with tattoo master Eddie Czaicki, he takes you to the ice floe to celebrate the festive season. The Advent calendar will keep you waiting for Christmas with exclusive new products such as passion fruit and pineapple paste, marshmallows, vanilla caramel and marzipan. In this frosty world, penguins are king, and they come in mischievous little chocolate shapes. The perfect gift for a rock’n’roll Christmas.
Foucher, the Parisian
For two hundred years now, Foucher has placed chocolate under the spotlight in the greatest of traditions. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate and ganache truffles, in boxes of various shapes and sizes, that prove this famous chocolate maker hasn’t finished making your mouth water.
Forget the fuss and frills, here the focus is on the quality of the chocolates and the ingredients, showcased in an array of sweet treats to bring joy to every occasion. Their beautiful old-fashioned boxes only add to the vintage charm of this establishment. In addition to their traditional chocolates and truffles, the Maison Foucher revisits fruit with its delicious fruit jellies and its famous Golden cherries, steeped in brandy and coated in chocolate. And if you’re looking for the perfect gift for a budding chocolate chef, you may be interested to know that Foucher organises workshops on a regular basis.
Maison le Roux, the toffee specialist
For Christmas, the Maison le Roux takes you to Brittany for a sweet-toothed adventure. Born in the heart of Morbihan, on the Quiberon peninsula, this chocolate and caramel maker pays a tribute to his homeland with his signature creations, called menhirs. These highly original chocolates are miniature replicas of the famous megalithic stones and will make a wonderful addition to Santa’s sack. You can select your own assortment from traditional praline and salted caramel the children will love, to whisky and cognac chocolates for the adults. And if you fancy a plunge back into the joys of childhood, try their delicious salted caramels, soft marshmallows and tasty spreads.
Maison Fouquet, the confectioner
With its elegant shopfront and window displays worthy of a luxury jeweller’s, the Maison Fouquet invites you make this Christmas a truly amazing one. Since its creation in 1852, this famous chocolate and confectionery shop has won over the Parisians, and its clientele includes more than one famous sweet tooth, the likes of Monet and Gertrude Stein among them.
For Christmas, let the Maison Fouquet inspire you, with its boxes of delightful surprises. Chocolates, old-fashioned pralines, fruity palet biscuits, ‘Salvator’ caramels… This establishment has plenty of its own creations, to delight both young and old. Add a sweet touch to Christmas, elegantly coated with delicious finesse.
Find out more about the Maison Fouquet.
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