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Adored by everyone from the Aztecs onwards, chocolate is history's all-time number one guilty pleasure and entirely deserves a week dedicated to it. Been there thinks choc rocks as much as the next person, so send us your tastiest tips. From old-fashioned chocolatiers to cafes serving perfect mugs of frothy hot chocolate and even museums of chocolatey celebration... we're already licking our lips.
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    Frederic Blondeel's

    Posted by Becinbrussels 17 January 2012

    Take refuge in Frederic’s shop, where you can revive flagging legs with a cup of rich hot chocolate. No instant stuff this; but basically just melted chocolate, including the speciality Fredericisime, with no sugar and just a little honey, that you might not like but will knock your socks off. Along with the large and imaginative chocolate selection there are hot chocolate spoons, chocolate spreads, and ice creams. I must try the “Belgian sunshine” - I like a chocolatier with a sense of humour!

    www.frederic-blondeel.com/en/presentation/
    Quai aux Briques/Baksteenkaai 24, 1000 Brussels
    +32 2 502 21 31
    Google map: bit.ly/x8SWpl

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    Mary

    Posted by Becinbrussels 17 January 2012

    Founded in 1919 in Brussels, since 1942 Mary has been the chocolate supplier to the Belgian royal family. There are only three shops in the country, and the brand has
    shunned expansion and stuck to its retro-style packing, discreet service and pralines named after Princesses past and present. This is about class, but there is nothing to be concerned about on price! Chocolates are still made by hand by around ten employees in a former armaments factory.
    A browse through the brochure reveals that chocolates should be kept between 15 and 18 degrees, avoiding rapid changes in temperature. “In truth, however, our chocolates seem to disappear rather quickly.” You bet they do.

    www.marychoc.com/
    Rue Royal/Konigsstraat 73, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
    +32 2 217 45 00
    Google map: bit.ly/zyRZ1L

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    The Museum of Chocolate

    Posted by Ian Grover 28 August 2007

    The Museum of Chocolate on the Grand Place is well worth a visit, complete with free samples!

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    Try the chocolate shops

    Posted by Julie Denny 22 August 2007

    The little chocolate shops around the Grand Place are divine. The shop owners will let you sample some of the chocolates, too - so you can end up doing a chocolate crawl for free!

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    Godiva

    Posted by Will Jennings 22 August 2007

    Venture to Godiva in Brussels for sublime chocolate.

    www.godiva.be/index.asp

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    Planete Chocolat

    Posted by JoanneMicallef 22 August 2007

    Go to the Chocolate shop Planete Chocolat in Brussels where you will truly be in chocolate heaven.

    There is a demonstration of how chocolate is made every Saturday afternoon. The smell hits you when you are in the shop and makes your heart race and takes you back to being a kid.

    I always feel like Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate factory when I enter the shop. So much choice and so much colour.

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    Chocolate

    Posted by NickWatt 2 August 2005

    Chocolate, of course. Head to Pierre Marcolini, the finest chocolate maker, at Avenue Louise, 75M or at Place du Grand Sablon, 39. Prices range from €8.50 for a sachet of chocolates to €64 for a Sac Intense - a tiered box of chocolates.

    www.marcolini.com/

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