Chocolate shopping in Brussels
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Pierre Marcolini
Brussels-born Marcolini is the wunderkind of Belgian chocolate-makers, whose pralines include melt-in-your-mouth ganaches (cream-filled chocolate) made from exotic teas. Other Marcolini innovations include quirky bunny-eared Easter eggs. Make your selection from the glass counter then head to the back room to pick up your order. There’s talk of a tea room opening soon upstairs.
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Chocolate Line
Bruges has 50 chocolate shops, but just five where chocolates are handmade on the premises. Of those, the Chocolate Line is the brightest and best. Wildly experimental flavours by ‘shock-o-latier’ Dominique Persoone include bitter Coca-Cola, and black olive, tomato and basil; it also sells pots of chocolate body-paint (complete with a brush). Opening hours fluctuate.
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Mary’s
Established in 1919, and supplying Belgium’s royal family with chocolates since 1942, Mary’s is the grande dame of praline makers. All 70-plus varieties of all-natural chocolates (including scrumptious coffee creams) are created entirely by hand.
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Del Rey
If the sweet vapours of chocolates being made out the back of this beautiful shop prove irresistible, you can get a taste on the spot at the adjoining degustation salon.
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Burie
Fronted by fantastical window displays, this historic chocolatier creates chocolates in all shapes and sizes, including ‘Antwerp hands’ and brilliant-cut diamonds.
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Wittamer
The Wittamer family still makes its own excellent chocolates, which you can buy at this boutique. They also run a pâtisserie and tearoom.
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Neuhaus
Framed by stained-glass windows, this is the original shop of the inventor of the praline, opened in 1857.
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Mary’s
Established in 1919, and supplying Belgium’s royal family with chocolates since 1942, Mary’s is the grande dame of praline makers. All 70-plus varieties of all-natural chocolates (including scrumptious coffee creams) are created entirely by hand.
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