Eye wateringly expensive Chocolate in Dublin

antonymous

Any ideas where I can buy some damn expensive chocolate in Dublin?

I'm looking to buy some as a gift, and want to spare no expense. Realised I cant think of anywhere with expensive choc off the top of my head.

AustinLostin

Cocoa Atlier on Drury st would be the best shout I think!

Boom jnto the Shelbourne - presume that'll be €300 or €400 - just to get the chocolate on your pillow. Take the chocolate and go home.

thee glitz

BT do a box for €46, Butlers for 40.

Winterlong

Butlers is relatively expensive but really good quality. And locally made.

Dont be buying that foreign muck!

andekwarhola

Just hand a shopkeeper 200 quid for a Mars Bar and tell them to keep the change.

Boom_Bap

I've moved this to the Dublin City Forum which is more appropriate.

Please pay attention to the local charter before posting.

whiskeyman

AustinLostin wrote: »

Cocoa Atlier on Drury st would be the best shout I think!

+1 for this.
Best fancy pants chocco you're likely to get... and it's local business too.
Will leave a good impression.

antonymous

whiskeyman wrote: »

+1 for this.
Best fancy pants chocco you're likely to get... and it's local business too.
Will leave a good impression.

Sounds like the place then.Although I like Butlers, I'm looking for something a little more pricey, high quality, with more wow factor. :cool:

OldBean

Proper Order, a cafe off Smithfield, has a curated selection of Cocoa Runners rather expensive chocolates from around the world.

Bean & Goose are doing some higher end Irish chocolate. Should be in Industry, Lilliput Stores, Indigo & Cloth, etc.

enda1

Isn't butlers just remelted Belgian chocolate? Does anyone in Ireland actually make chocolate from Cocoa beans??

Space Dog

enda1 wrote: »

Does anyone in Ireland actually make chocolate from Cocoa beans??

Hazel Mountain Chocolate are Irish and make their own chocolate, they have shops in the Burren and in Galway and probably an online shop, too.

LiamaDelta

enda1 wrote:

Isn't butlers just remelted Belgian chocolate? Does anyone in Ireland actually make chocolate from Cocoa beans??

Bean and Goose also Wilkies.

OP any of the Irish roasters mentioned or Coco Atelier would be your best bet.

hmmm

Maybe Leonidas in that arch place off Dawson street. Wouldn't describe it as "eye watering", but it's certainly premium.

Iolar Iontach

Space Dog wrote: »

Hazel Mountain Chocolate are Irish and make their own chocolate, they have shops in the Burren and in Galway and probably an online shop, too.

It's sold in Urbanity in Smithfield. They have a pretty good selection of bars.

daisy123

Another vote for Cocoa Atelier from me. The chocolates are delicious and they look gorgeous and packed lovely. They do special Easter Eggs too if it's for Easter, or can make up a box of chocolates there for you either. Check out their FB for an idea of what they look like!

beechwood55

Cocoa Atelier.
Also Fallon & Byrne on Exchequer St have a good selection of chocolate - Irish made and also foreign brands.

Tar.Aldarion

Booja booja truffles from down to earth or another health shop, amazing

http://www.boojabooja.com/chocolate-truffles/collections/

kleefarr

enda1 wrote: »

Isn't butlers just remelted Belgian chocolate? Does anyone in Ireland actually make chocolate from Cocoa beans??

Yep, probably that 70% one from Lidl. €1.29. :rolleyes:

Will I Am Not

antonymous wrote: »

I'm looking for something a little more pricey, high quality, with more wow factor. :cool:

It's chocolate, not cocaine.
A box of chocolates for €300 isn't going to be infinitely more amazing than a box for €50.

Unless you leave the price on them the recipient more than likely wouldn't be able to tell the difference... unless of course they are a chocolatier or something.

If you do purposely leave the price on them or tell them the price you will probably come off as a bit of a twat too.

kleefarr

Any chocolate in your eye would make it water.

.G.

I've a box of gone off roses op, yours for 600 euro.

enda1

kleefarr wrote: »

Yep, probably that 70% one from Lidl. €1.29. :rolleyes:

What? :rolleyes:

Amalgam

Regardless of price, think of the person you're gifting it to.

Some people, myself included, get absolutely vile 'wine-hangover-like' headaches after a cocoa heavy chocolate binge.

Leonidas might have some here eye rolling, but it might be perfect for someone that gets cocoa headaches. Not everyone tolerates it.

Valrhona box of samples in M&S

ProudDUB

The Fake Sheikh wrote: »

It's chocolate, not cocaine.
A box of chocolates for €300 isn't going to be infinitely more amazing than a box for €50.

Unless you leave the price on them the recipient more than likely wouldn't be able to tell the difference... unless of course they are a chocolatier or something.

If you do purposely leave the price on them or tell them the price you will probably come off as a bit of a twat too.

Well, aren't you just a bundle of joy ! :rolleyes:

You most definitely can tell the difference between the seriously good stuff and, the priciest box of chox from Butlers imo. Butlers chox are pretty damm good, but they are hardly the Rolls Royce of chocolate.

+1 from me to for Coco Atelier. My cousin and her new hubby were given gift vouchers from there as a wedding prezzie. ( Hey, it beats a toaster ! ) They were raving about how good it was.

Will I Am Not

ProudDUB wrote: »

Well, aren't you just a bundle of joy ! :rolleyes:

You most definitely can tell the difference between the seriously good stuff and, the priciest box of chox from Butlers imo. Butlers chox are pretty damm good, but they are hardly the Rolls Royce of chocolate.

+1 from me to for Coco Atelier. My cousin and her new hubby were given gift vouchers from there as a wedding prezzie. ( Hey, it beats a toaster ! ) They were raving about how good it was.

Blind taste taste and your typical pretentious "connoisseur" won't have a clue.

BorneTobyWilde

Chocolates melt, and it will all taste the same when you lick it off of her.
Why not buy her a piece of Jewellery

tea and coffee

Charbonnel and Walker truffles are delicious - liquid caramel. Brown Thomas.
BT also sell a few Irish brands like Skelligs, Chez Emily etc.
As well as having Godiva, Valrhona etc.
If you didn't fancy Cocoa Atelier.

antonymous

The Fake Sheikh wrote: »

It's chocolate, not cocaine.
A box of chocolates for €300 isn't going to be infinitely more amazing than a box for €50.

Unless you leave the price on them the recipient more than likely wouldn't be able to tell the difference... unless of course they are a chocolatier or something.

If you do purposely leave the price on them or tell them the price you will probably come off as a bit of a twat too.

Uh......

High quality items usually demand a premium. The person I'm buying it for never had expensive chocolate before.

Its really as simple that. Spare me your salty BS please.

antonymous

ProudDUB wrote: »

Well, aren't you just a bundle of joy ! :rolleyes:

You most definitely can tell the difference between the seriously good stuff and, the priciest box of chox from Butlers imo. Butlers chox are pretty damm good, but they are hardly the Rolls Royce of chocolate.

+1 from me to for Coco Atelier. My cousin and her new hubby were given gift vouchers from there as a wedding prezzie. ( Hey, it beats a toaster ! ) They were raving about how good it was.

Yes, I'm sold on Coco Atelier, I'll be passing by there Thursday so will pick something up

antonymous

Amalgam wrote: »

Regardless of price, think of the person you're gifting it to.

Some people, myself included, get absolutely vile 'wine-hangover-like' headaches after a cocoa heavy chocolate binge.

Leonidas might have some here eye rolling, but it might be perfect for someone that gets cocoa headaches. Not everyone tolerates it.

Thats a good point, some people get migraines from really dark choc

whoopsadoodles

Bookmarked for after Lent

kleefarr

enda1 wrote: »

What? :rolleyes:

Yeah, Lidl do a dark 70% one for €1.29. It's nice as well, but I go for the 81% one.

Blingy

Chez Emily
Not sure of prices but such delicious chocolate.
Irish made too.

JupiterKid

2007 is a decade ago <-- :pac:

Anyone remember the €65 bottles of water sold in BTs?

Koptain Liverpool

OldBean wrote: »

Proper Order, a cafe off Smithfield, has a curated selection of Cocoa Runners rather expensive chocolates from around the world.

:rolleyes:

Will I Am Not

Koptain Liverpool wrote: »

:rolleyes:

This is it. People hand over big money for bullsh*t terminology.

The chocolatier wore cashmere gloves and a hairless Persian cat sniffed them. We better add another €100 on to the price even though it doesn't affect the consumer in any tangible way.

Ben D Bus

The Fake Sheikh wrote: »

This is it. People hand over big money for bullsh*t terminology.

The chocolatier wore cashmere gloves and a hairless Persian cat sniffed them. We better add another €100 on to the price even though it doesn't affect the consumer in any tangible way.

Sometimes paying for the 'theatre' of premium products & services is worth it in itself. Only the driest of dry ****es wouldn't get that.

hungry hypno toad

Ben D Bus wrote: »

Sometimes paying for the 'theatre' of premium products & services is worth it in itself. Only the driest of dry ****es wouldn't get that.

Those hairless cats are manky though. Wouldn't want anything they had sniffed.

Ben D Bus

hungry hypno toad wrote: »

Those hairless cats are manky though. Wouldn't want anything they had sniffed.

Better than a hairy cat. I don't want cat hair in my expensive choccies.

OldBean

Koptain Liverpool wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Hang on, you clicked in to a thread asking about eye wateringly expensive chocolate and got bothered about someone offering a curated selection? I'd be more bothered my if eye wateringly expensive chocolate wasn't curated...

Will I Am Not

Ben D Bus wrote: »

Sometimes paying for the 'theatre' of premium products & services is worth it in itself. Only the driest of dry ****es wouldn't get that.

Only the most gullible of gobsh*tes lap up all that stuff.

Ben D Bus

The Fake Sheikh wrote: »

Only the most gullible of gobsh*tes lap up all that stuff.

It's not about being gullible. That would suggest not knowing what's going on.

The theatre element is about knowing exactly what's going on. You're paying for the nonsense, and enjoying it thoroughly!

antonymous

The Fake Sheikh wrote: »

Only the most gullible of gobsh*tes lap up all that stuff.

You're obviously the type of guy who'd buy a woman a CZ because its shiny enough........ no need to buy her an actual diamond...

Based on your comments on other threads, you're one salty little individual.

Spare us your BS.

You reek of cheap and tacky, boy.

Will I Am Not

antonymous wrote: »

You're obviously the type of guy who'd buy a woman a CZ because its shiny enough........ no need to buy her an actual diamond...

Based on your comments on other threads, you're one salty little individual.

Spare us your BS.

You reek of cheap and tacky, boy.

Going through my posts? Creepy...

Not salty at all and so far from a penny pincher that you wouldn't believe.
I also bought my wife a diamond engagement ring if you must know.

I think anybody who buys something for someone based solely on cost is a sad and shallow individual but hey... that's just my opinion on this public message board where you should expect opinions.
No need to cry about it.

It's great how you can judge a complete stranger on under 20 posts. Well done.

imme

Brown Thomas has some good expensive choice, Godiva, Charbonnel et Walker etc

Also Leonidas is good and pricey, good but pricey