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Atelier Sainte Catherine produces bean-to-bar chocolate in Brussels, offering single-origin varieties for shoppers interested in comparing the chocolate itself. Elisabeth combines Belgian confectionery traditions through speculoos bonbons and waffle pralines, with small-batch chocolate central to its range. Frederic Blondeel offers single-origin bars and pralines flavoured with ingredients such as yuzu, with a tasting counter overlooking the canal.
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Atelier Sainte Catherine is a Brussels house for bean-to-bar chocolate, single origin varieties. Bean-to-bar production in Brussels.
Best for Bean-to-bar chocolate, single origin varieties
Place du Grand Sablon 11, Brussels
Mary has handcrafted pralines in Brussels since 1919, founded by Mary Delluc and named Patented Supplier to the Belgian Court in 1942. Signature collections include Jardin Secret, La Médaille and Eden, built around flavour, aroma and texture harmony.
Best for Jardin Secret, La Médaille and Eden praline collections
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Elisabeth is a Brussels house for speculoos bonbons, waffle pralines, handmade small-batch chocolate combining Belgian culinary traditions.
Best for Speculoos bonbons, waffle pralines, handmade small-batch chocolate combining Belgian culinary traditions
Koekelberg, Brussels
Frédéric Blondeel roasts cacao and makes chocolate at an atelier in Koekelberg, Brussels. His range includes single-origin tablets and pralines, with chocolate-coated biscuits among the other creations. The Rue de Ganshoren shop also serves coffee and hot chocolate, alongside its ice-cream offer.
Best for Bean-to-bar chocolate, pralines and a coffee or ice-cream stop
Frédéric Blondeel combines cacao roasting with chocolate making at his Koekelberg address in Brussels. Coming from a family of coffee roasters, he applied that roasting background to cacao, working with beans from South Asia and Latin America. The process begins before the chocolate is shaped into a finished gift.
His account describes low-temperature roasting adjusted to the character of the beans. Single-origin tablets sit alongside pralines and chocolate-coated biscuits, with ingredients such as Japanese tea or Sicilian nuts used in different creations. The origin of a cacao bean and the place where the chocolate is made therefore describe separate parts of the product.
The shop at Rue de Ganshoren 39 also has a coffee and ice-cream bar. Hot chocolate offers another way to try the maker's work without choosing a boxed assortment first. The ice creams are made by Blondeel, with several flavours listed by the shop. Choose between a gift to take away and something to enjoy at the bar, checking the actual assortment rather than assuming every flavour is always available.
Grand Place 21-22, Brussels
Godiva's Grand Place boutique is part of a chocolate house that began in Brussels in 1926. The brand's own history dates the opening on the square to 1958, distinct from the founding of Pierre Draps Sr.'s workshop. Its chocolate range includes pralines and truffles, with gift boxes for sharing or taking home.
Best for Chocolate gifts from a Brussels house with a Grand Place history
Godiva was founded in Brussels in 1926, when the Belgian chocolatier Pierre Draps Sr. began handcrafting chocolates in his workshop there. The house takes its name and its emblem from the tale of Lady Godiva, and it has kept the Belgian origin as the centre of its identity through a century of trading.
What the house makes its case on is sourcing and finish: cacao, nuts, fruits and spices selected specifically, and a preoccupation with the physical qualities of the finished piece, the snap of the shell and the texture of a ganache. Its Masterpiece line is the one most often reached for, and the boxed tins and calendars are built to be kept after the chocolates are gone.
Be clear-eyed about what this is. Godiva is a global house rather than a small maker, and its chocolate is widely available. The Brussels connection is genuine and the century of practice is real; the rarity is not.
City centre, near Bozar
A Brussels chocolatier working near the Bozar arts centre, Gerbaud makes pralines and ganaches without added sugar, pairing dark couverture with candied Mediterranean fruits, nuts and spices. The shop runs tastings and workshops and was voted the city's best chocolatier in 2021.
Best for Brussels pralines pairing dark chocolate with fruit, nuts and spices.
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Mary Chocolatier is a Brussels house for hand-rolled truffles, old-world luxury chocolate, art deco branding. Founded in 1919; Made in Belgium.
Best for Hand-rolled truffles, old-world luxury chocolate, art deco branding
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MIKE&BECKY is a Brussels house for direct trade, small-batch chocolate, transparent workshop, contemporary craft chocolate. Made in Brussels in small batches.
Best for Direct trade, small-batch chocolate, transparent workshop, contemporary craft chocolate
Brussels
Pierre Marcolini makes chocolates, pralines, biscuits and seasonal gift boxes with strong attention to cacao sourcing. The Brussels house is especially useful for tasting single-origin bars beside filled confections. Established in 1995, the house also offers truffles and macarons; praline ingredients include Piedmont hazelnuts and Moroccan pink berries.
Best for Bean-to-bar sculptural chocolate éclats from the Brussels haute chocolaterie
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