The Dark Chocolatier

I really like the products from the Noosa Chocolate Factory. They have really interesting combinations of chocolates, a really high quality chocolate, a large range of different products and they tend to sell them in small enough amounts that you can buy enough for a little pick me up without feeling bad.

They've been appearing for the last two years or so at the Jan Power Markets in the Brisbane CBD. Then they mysteriously sprouted two shops on Adelaide Street and I felt myself drawn into them despite their lack of savoury goods. This is the rest of the store by the way. Its a very narrow, timber floored place with trays bearing the name of the company filled with either slabs or self serve chocolate.

Pretty pretty pretty

Don't mind if I do

All the packaged bars and slabs

In addition to chocolate, they also do a roaring trade in hot chocolate and coffee.

So many hot choccies

More menus!

I went here with T., we decided to have some hot chocolate to warm us up before we went to dinner that night. We were a bit stuck for ideas but both agreed that a pure milk hot chocolate would be too sweet so we both got the 56% Ecuadar hot chocolate.

Huge semi dark chocolate

It was the best hot chocolate I've ever had. I could've easily had half of this with T., and we'd have both been satisfied by the end of it. Due to high quality of the chocolate used, this drink was incredibly rich and sweet. I shudder to think what their much sweeter milk chocolate would taste like and I love sweet drinks. I've had larger quantities of hot chocolate before, say at Max Brenner or at Starbucks or something, but due to way its made, I could not match it drink by drink. I feel toasty warm after having a few sips, and it was also at that perfect temperature where you have to cautiously sip to have some of your drink. We were there for almost half an hour, drinking and chatting before we pulled off the lids to see how far we had gotten. Both of us had barely gone down by half a cup.

We also picked up some random chocolate while we were there. At the time we went there we had gotten, milk chocolate honeycomb and milk chocolate hazelnuts, dark cranberries, inca berries, goji berries, strawberries, blueberries, pistachios, almonds, macademias, peanuts and cocoa dusted dark macademia pieces. My pick of the lot were the dark cranberries which had a lovely sourness to them and went well with the oily richness of the dark chocolate.

The Dark Chocolatier
Atmosphere: 7, the yellowed lighting here is somehow oddly soothing and cheerful. I like the bustle of the place and how its a nice place to just pick out some chocolates and meet up with friends for a hot chocolate.
Service: 7, fast, friendly and cheerful service from the lone lady at the front desk. She personally finds you if you've wandered away while waiting for a chocolate. She also kept picking up my umbrella which kept falling down haha.
Food: 10, some of the best chocolate found anywhere as well as the best hot chocolate. When I want to impress someone, I buy chocolates from this place, its that good. Every time I see my Boyfriend's parents I buy them a bar of dark chocolate here, they really like the dark chocolate and chilli slab.