British Chocolate Brands & Makers
Of the 48 British chocolate brands and makers on Chof, the three whose top bar has the highest Chof Score are Pump Street, SOLKIKI and Coco Caravan.
What is British chocolate making known for?
Britain is known for its big confectionery brands, and it now also has a large craft bean-to-bar scene. Those bean-to-bar makers on Chof tend to score highly, with a leaning toward bright, fruit-led origins such as Madagascar, Colombia and Peru. Alongside them sit melters, who remould and flavour finished couverture rather than working from the bean.
The United Kingdom has two chocolate industries. The older one is the large-scale confectionery the country is famous for. The younger one is craft bean-to-bar makers who buy traceable cacao and press their own bars, and they make up most of the UK maker pages on Chof.
British makers favour fruit-driven origins, Madagascar most of all, with Colombian and Peruvian cacao close behind. The catalogue also lists melters, makers who start from finished couverture and add flavour or reshape it. That is a different craft from bean-to-bar, and each maker page on Chof says which one a maker is.
British chocolate on Chof
What the catalogue shows for makers based in the United Kingdom.
Where British makers source cacao
Median across the 233 scored bars from makers based in the United Kingdom. Chof Score scores bars on fine-chocolate signals like ingredient purity and cacao traceability, not taste. How Chof Score works.
British chocolate bars
The highest Chof Scores among bars with a photo from makers based in the United Kingdom. Open a bar for its score breakdown.
Saint Thomas 75%
Ecuador Camino Verde 85%
Guayaquil Hacienda Victoria 75%
Ecuador 65%
San Vicente Gold
Guatemala 65%
Roasted Hazelnut
Hallmark Milk
Bars with awards
59 bars from makers based in the United Kingdom have award results on Chof. Showing the 12 with the newest results. How Chof lists awards
Canoabo 85%
by Mayoy Cacao
Chuao 100%
by Mayoy Cacao
Guayaquil Hacienda Victoria 75%
by Coco Caravan
Hacienda La Carrera 55%
Honduras Indio Rojo 72%
by Duffy's
Madagascar & Sea Salt 55%
by Pump Street
Nicaragua Amarillo 72%
by Duffy's
Nicaragua Oh Juno! Milk 45%
by Duffy's
Nordic Berries Milk 50%
Sourdough Crumb 70% Hacienda La Carrera
Francisco Sakaguchi 75%
Guatemala 65%
by Bare Bones
Chocolate makers by city in the United Kingdom
City pages, for cities where Chof has confirmed the locations of enough makers.
Based in the United Kingdom
Cadbury
Divine
Pump Street
Åkesson's
Chocolarder
Coco Caravan
Firetree Chocolate
Chocolate Tree
Dormouse Chocolates
Ocelot
The Chocolate Smiths
Tosier
Bullion
Nearynógs
SOLKIKI
Bare Bones
Green & Black's
Table
Willie's Cacao
Duffy's
Luisa's
York Cocoa Works
Fatso
Galaxy
Mayoy Cacao
Superfood Cocoa
Waitrose & Partners
YOKOKO
Heist Chocolate
M&S
Montezuma's
Oumé
Pret
Bantu
Border
Coco
Fortnum & Mason
Guppy's Chocolates
La Fleur de Chocolat
Ombar
Otherly
Rococo
Salahuddin
Up-Up
Charbonnel et Walker
Dark Sugars
Melange
William Curley
Frequently asked about chocolate makers in the United Kingdom
What is British chocolate known for?
Large confectionery brands, and now a growing craft bean-to-bar scene. The British makers on Chof lean toward bright, fruit-forward origins like Madagascar, Colombia and Peru, and many of their bars rank among the higher-scoring in the catalogue.
What is the difference between a bean-to-bar maker and a melter?
A bean-to-bar maker controls the whole process from raw cacao bean to finished bar. A melter starts from ready-made chocolate (couverture) and remoulds or flavours it. Both appear among UK makers on Chof, and the maker type is listed on each page.
What are the best British chocolate brands?
Chof lists 48 British chocolate makers and brands. Ranked by the best Chof Score among each maker's published bars, the top three in the United Kingdom are Pump Street for its Saint Thomas 75% (4.0 out of 5 from 6 community ratings), SOLKIKI for its Ecuador Camino Verde 85% and Coco Caravan for its Guayaquil Hacienda Victoria 75%. 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 the United Kingdom are listed on Chof?
Chof currently lists 48 chocolate makers based in the United Kingdom.
Are there any bean-to-bar chocolate makers in the United Kingdom?
Yes. 23 of the 48 makers listed in the United Kingdom on Chof work bean-to-bar. 1 of them is tree-to-bar, growing the cacao as well.
What is the median Chof Score for British chocolate?
Across the 233 scored British bars on Chof, the median Chof Score is 84 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 United Kingdom cacao on Chof?
Bean origin (where the cacao is grown) and maker country (where the chocolate is made) are different things. The United Kingdom is a chocolate-making country rather than a cacao-growing origin, so Chof has no United Kingdom cacao origin page. To browse chocolate by cacao origin, open the cacao origins index on Chof.
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