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🍫 Chocolate & confectionery

Artisan chocolatiers, confectioners, honeys, jams, home-baked biscuits. The bar is clear: the chocolatier works from beans or, at the very least, from quality couverture, never from industrial preparations dressed up for the part.

5 places in this category.

Sanhes 🥖 Eat

Chocolate & confectionery

Sanhes

Farmhouse ice cream in Aveyron.

📍 Sainte-Radegonde (12) — Occitanie

La belle Aude 🥖 Eat

Chocolate & confectionery

La belle Aude

Whole-milk ice creams and full-fruit sorbets.

📍 CARCASSONNE (11) — Occitanie

Abbaye de Bonneval 🥖 Eat

Chocolate & confectionery

Abbaye de Bonneval

Chocolate treats and quiet contemplation in Aveyron.

📍 Le Cayrol - Espalion (12) — Occitanie

Frequently asked questions

About chocolate & confectionery

What's the difference between artisan chocolatier and chocolatier?

The artisan transforms the couverture themselves (or even the cacao beans, hence "bean-to-bar"). A non-artisan chocolatier may buy in semi-finished products.

How do you store chocolate?

Between 16 and 18°C, away from light and strong odours. Never in the fridge (humidity). If "bloom" appears, it looks unsightly but is harmless.

What is bean-to-bar?

The chocolatier handles everything: bean roasting, conching, tempering, moulding. A movement born in the 2000s and well represented in France today.