Chocolatiers

Chocolatiers

Cafe Tasse, with its heritage of fine flavour and its history of top master "chocolatiers", offers the joy of chocolate. With many varieties, superior and constant quality and that irresistible taste, it echoes a tradition redolent of poetry and fine food. Its flavours, hinting at exotic journeys, modernity and traditional recipes highlight the contrast between the pleasures of the past and the present.

Cafe Tasse travels all around the world looking for new ingredients to produce an inimitable taste. These ingredients marry happily with the finest chocolates - to obtain the perfect end product - and give its flavour added zest. All these additions - orange and almonds from Spain, peppercorn from China, pistachios from Lebanon and hazelnuts from Turkey - undergo continuously developing taste research. It is the selection of these little details that makes perfection.

Kokorina stocks a wonderful range of Cafe Tasse product; our favourite is the Dark Bar with Coffee packed with coffee aroma in the Classic collection.

Simon Mestres started chocolate production in Sant Sadurni d'Anoia, in the Alt Penedes region of Spain near Barcelona using highly skilled, hand-made methods back in 1840. His son, Miquel Mestres created the packaging with drawing representing the cocoa being carried by the merchant ship. Fancesc Coll inherited the business and in 1951 the owner renamed the business to Simon Coll.

Those chocolate lovers under sugar restriction diet can find a range of sugar free chocolates from Simon Coll in the Sugar-Free section.

"Union" was set up in 1902 as a cooperative partnership of confectioners that were not involved in distributing their products through major brands. “Union” started up their own chocolate factory and the partnership was located close to the centre of Haarlem, in a building that was once a convent. To this day "Union" still occupies the same building. In 1995 the Belgian chocolatier, Neuhaus, took over the company and allowed Union to operate on a modernisation program. After a management buy-out in 2004 the company was renamed UNION EDEL.

UNION EDEL manufactures wonderful chocolates with no added sugar suitable for those chocolate lovers under sugar restriction diet; this range can be found in the Sugar-Free section.

Cavalier is a young and dynamic family company, founded in April 1996 and situated in the heart of the Flanders region in Belgium . Cavalier is market leader in the niche market of diabetic chocolates. Convinced about the consumer's demand for healthier and still delicious chocolates, Cavalier has acquired the product knowledge and technical know-how to achieve this. Innovation is still very important to Cavalier, and continuously the company is researching and testing the newest ingredients, to create even healthier products as delicious as the original ones.

In all Cavalier products, the sugar is replaced with the sweetener maltitol, a natural sugar substitute, derived from starch. It is almost as sweet as normal sugar. All the fillings are still prepared manually according to traditional recipes, but only the healthiest vegetable fats are selected, which do not affect the cholesterol level. Some Cavalier products are also enriched with the fibre inulin, a pre-biotic good for the colonic flora. Cavalier does not contain artificial sweeteners, no artificial colours and no preservatives.

Those chocolate lovers under sugar restriction diet can find a range of sugar free chocolates from Cavalier in the Sugar-Free section.

Founded in 1797 in Barcelona, Amatller is one of the oldest chocolate manufacturers in Europe crafting chocolate with an emphasis on purity, tradition, art, and flavor. Around the turn of the 19th century, Amatller took their craft so seriously that they began to craft their world around chocolate. They commissioned new paintings to celebrate their chocolates. Rafael de Penagos and Alphonse Mucha created works of art that now adorn these fantastic chocolates. Antoni Amatller appointed the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch to design his residence 'Casa Amatller'. It was built between 1898 and 1900 next to Gaudí’s Casa Batllo in Barcelona.

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Amatller fell on hard times and became virtually unknown outside of Barcelona. Fortunately for us, some ambitious chocolatiers have reinvested in the legend of Amatller chocolates.

Amatller chocolates can be found in our classic range.

Address:

9 Cedar Road

Bromley

Kent BR1 3BY

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+44 (0) 208 313 0371

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