Seventy% - Topic: Chocolatiers in Scotland

confiseur on Chocolatiers in Scotland

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:04:50 +0000

...I know it is not a chocolate shop as such but the co-owner of the restaurant La Potiniere in Gullane, East Lothian...is a guy called Keith Marley. He is a brilliant Patissier/Chocolatier and was a finalist at the UK chocolate awards in 2005.
The chocolates and chocolate desserts he creates for the restaurant are simply stunning...well worth the half hour drive from Edinburgh.

Masur on Chocolatiers in Scotland

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:27:11 +0000

Coco of Bruntsfield website:
[url]http://www.cocochocolate.co.uk/[/url]

"Porcelana: The Holy Grail of Pure Criollos" (Maricel E. Presilla)

Lady Godiva on Chocolatiers in Scotland

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:35:48 +0000

Hello, I'm very new to this forum, but thought I'd mention a couple of choclatiers in Scotland that have really, really impressed me...

In Inverness there's a tiny shop called Belgian-Caledonian Story, run by a husband and wife chocolatier team: she's from Scotland, he's Belgian! They mainly make loose chocolates, and have an amazing range. I think they are superb, and taste to me as if they are proper chocolate - no nasties like vanillin - but I haven't actually chatted with them to find out more. But the place is worth a visit (and I recommend their mango creams and walnut liquer chocolates in particular, despite being a fan of neither fruit creams nor liquers!).

I'm in Edinburgh at the moment, where there's a truly wonderful shop called Coco of Bruntsfield. The bars are just wonderful - with some really inventive stuff going on (for instance white chocolate bars with strawberry and green pepper, or with cocoa nibs) - and also they sell things as delectable as Valrhona Grand Cru Single origin chocolate in chunks - they have Manjabi and Pur Caribe at the moment, mmmm! All the chocolate there has the very best ingredients, and it's all hand-tempered except the 68% dark chocolate...