Canadian Chocolate Brands & Makers
Of the 14 Canadian chocolate brands and makers on Chof, the three whose top bar has the highest Chof Score are SOMA, Kasama Chocolate and Sirene.
What is Canadian chocolate making known for?
Canadian craft chocolate on Chof is bean-to-bar, and its small group of makers work a wide spread of origins, from Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela to Vanuatu, Haiti and the Philippines. The scene grew alongside the American bean-to-bar movement and shares its origin-first ethos.
Canada's craft scene emerged in step with the bean-to-bar movement south of the border, and it inherited the same conviction: buy traceable beans, control every step, put the origin on the front of the wrapper.
For a small scene it covers many origins. Canadian bars on Chof draw on Latin America first, Peru and Ecuador above all, but reach as far as Vanuatu, Haiti, Uganda and the Philippines. If you want to compare many origins through a consistent maker's style, a Canadian shelf is a good place to do it.
Canadian chocolate on Chof
What the catalogue shows for makers based in Canada.
Where Canadian makers source cacao
Median across the 122 scored bars from makers based in Canada. Chof Score scores bars on fine-chocolate signals like ingredient purity and cacao traceability, not taste. How Chof Score works.
Canadian chocolate bars
The highest Chof Scores among bars with a photo from makers based in Canada. Open a bar for its score breakdown.
Mr. Salazar 70%
Bejofo, Madagascar 70%
Ramage, Vanuatu Malekula Island
Mbingu, Tanzania 70%
Tanned Chocolate
Creole Gardens Dark- Haiti 70%
Creole Gardens Milk
Costa Esmeraldas 70%
Bars with awards
47 bars from makers based in Canada have award results on Chof. Showing the 12 with the newest results. How Chof lists awards
Chocolate makers by city in Canada
City pages, for cities where Chof has confirmed the locations of enough makers.
Chocolate festivals in Canada
Where to taste bars and meet makers in person.
Based in Canada
SOMA
Allo Simonne
Palette de Bine
Black Jaguar Chocolate
Kasama Chocolate
Qantu
ChocoSol
The Organic House
Sirene
Camino
Charlie's chocolate factory
Chocolat Dicitte
Galerie au chocolat
Jacobean
Frequently asked about chocolate makers in Canada
What is Canadian chocolate known for?
A bean-to-bar craft scene with an unusually wide origin range. Canadian makers on Chof press single-origin bars from cacao as varied as Peru, Ecuador, Vanuatu, Haiti and the Philippines, sharing the origin-first ethos of the North American craft movement.
Is Canadian craft chocolate bean-to-bar?
Yes, the craft scene works bean-to-bar: raw traceable cacao rather than remelted industrial chocolate, with the maker type listed on each maker page. It covers many origins for its size, so you can compare several origins from one maker.
What are the best Canadian chocolate brands?
Chof lists 14 Canadian chocolate makers and brands. Ranked by the best Chof Score among each maker's published bars, the top three in Canada are SOMA for its Mr. Salazar 70% (4.2 out of 5 from 5 community ratings), Kasama Chocolate for its Tanned Chocolate and Sirene for its Giff's Criollo 73%. Chof Score rates what a maker discloses about a bar: how precisely the origin is named, how clean the ingredient list is, and how much of the fermenting, drying and roasting is documented.
How many chocolate makers in Canada are listed on Chof?
Chof currently lists 14 chocolate makers based in Canada.
What is the median Chof Score for Canadian chocolate?
Across the 122 scored Canadian bars on Chof, the median Chof Score is 86 out of 100, and the most common maker type is bean-to-bar. Chof Score scores bars on fine-chocolate signals like ingredient purity and cacao traceability, not taste.
Where can I find Canada cacao on Chof?
Bean origin (where the cacao is grown) and maker country (where the chocolate is made) are different things. Canada is a chocolate-making country rather than a cacao-growing origin, so Chof has no Canada cacao origin page. To browse chocolate by cacao origin, open the cacao origins index on Chof.
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Scan a Canada bar and track what you taste
Open Chof while a Canada bar is in your hand to log your tasting, save the maker, and compare it with related bars.
