Choccywoccydoodah, London
Jan 30th, 2014, 08:30 AM
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Choccywoccydoodah, London
Do you think it's worth searching this sweet shop out or will there be candy stores galore as we walk around London? It appears to be some blocks north of Picadilly circus.
Jan 30th, 2014, 08:47 AM
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Haven't heard of it either but guess it's related to the tv show based in Brighton I think..
My favourite chocolate is from Hotel Chocolat there is one on the strand, one on cheapside and one by moorgate station
My favourite chocolate is from Hotel Chocolat there is one on the strand, one on cheapside and one by moorgate station
Jan 30th, 2014, 08:55 AM
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There are very few independent sweet shops in London (or anywhere else in Britain) selling their own chocolate concoctions.
Apart from a couple of rather plastic franchises selling mostly boiled sugar confectionery in "olde world" packaging, it's mostly mass-market chocolate bars in standard newsagents, or poshish English/Belgian assortment shops like this: http://www.charbonnel.co.uk/store-locator
Foubert Place is pretty central. If it interests you, why would you not wonder by? Although the neighbourhood has a kind of "faded fashion" image among the elderly, it went through a phase a year or two back of having lots of cutting-edge new British clothes stores and pop-ups. They're now being replaced by a host of the one UK branch of second-division foreign fashion chains, and the area's regaining the slightly exploitative feel it acquired in the 1970s. But it's got a lively atmosphere.
Apart from a couple of rather plastic franchises selling mostly boiled sugar confectionery in "olde world" packaging, it's mostly mass-market chocolate bars in standard newsagents, or poshish English/Belgian assortment shops like this: http://www.charbonnel.co.uk/store-locator
Foubert Place is pretty central. If it interests you, why would you not wonder by? Although the neighbourhood has a kind of "faded fashion" image among the elderly, it went through a phase a year or two back of having lots of cutting-edge new British clothes stores and pop-ups. They're now being replaced by a host of the one UK branch of second-division foreign fashion chains, and the area's regaining the slightly exploitative feel it acquired in the 1970s. But it's got a lively atmosphere.
Jan 30th, 2014, 09:17 AM
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Choccywoccydoodah is a Brighton based company who started off doing chocolate wedding cakes, branched into other confectionary and now have shops in a few other places.
My recommendation for fab chocs if you are in London though is Paul A Young, in Camden Passage (couple of mins walk from Angel tube). Amazing salt caramel bars, the best hot chocolate I've ever had, and lots of other weird and wonderful chocolate based concoctions like marmite truffles, or port and stilton truffles. Think he might have another branch in the Royal Exchange, but not 100% sure.
My recommendation for fab chocs if you are in London though is Paul A Young, in Camden Passage (couple of mins walk from Angel tube). Amazing salt caramel bars, the best hot chocolate I've ever had, and lots of other weird and wonderful chocolate based concoctions like marmite truffles, or port and stilton truffles. Think he might have another branch in the Royal Exchange, but not 100% sure.
