after Paris, what chocolate?
 

We were in Paris for a month..heavenly...in a newly renovated Citadines Saint Germain hotel.. Now we are back in the US and I have bought all kinds of chocolate...Perugina, Valhrona, etc. and they all taste waxy to me...interesting as we used to like them.

Can anyone recommend any? ...maybe online. We like dark..and it's supposed to be better for you.

Thanks..

Purists and Francophiles will doubt it, but we have discovered a marvelous dark chocolate bar made in Poland. And only $1 for a big bar. You would never guess where it is sold: Walgreen's.

Michel Cluizel is widely available in the US...

Try La Maison du Chocolat. I usually get the boxes. Not too sure about the bars.

Perugina is Italian, if you are looking for the best
Swiss and Belgian would be my choice.

Trader Joe's has good dark chocolate healthily made. But probably not the very upscale choc most want. But i love it and my French friends did too when they were here.

USNR, what is the brand of the Polish chocolate found at Walgreens? Might be worth a try.

Polish chocolate found at Walgreen's may be the most mouth-watering chocolate around but folks it seem rather pay ten times as much for some high-falutin brand that say 'Yeh i got this Polish chocolate at Walgreens!' it seems at least.

I knew you would all have ideas....sorry no Walgreens here in San Diego..wish I had the name of the chocolate there.

I will look for Michel Cuizel ..

I really like Lindt chocs. They are Swiss.

Neuhaus is an excellent Belgian chocolate and can be purchased online at:
http://www.neuhauschocolateshop.com

If you are in the NY area there is a store on Broadway at 75th.

Yup, know just what you're saying. Now that I live in Switzerland I will never be able to swallow a bit of Hershey's Special Dark again. Maison du Chocolat that someone else mentioned has a store in NYC and ships. Their truffles are heavenly. And Lindt has a really new wonderful dark chili chocolate that I am afraid I am totally addicted to.

Godiva chocolate.

And won't I have fun testing all these...! For a while I thought I was a tad crazy thinking they tasted like wax, but it seems I have company..thanks..

Order online from: http://www.chocolat-durand.com/

beaupeep - saw an interview with a world renown chocolate expert who is paid to evalauate cacao by "nosing" for the large manufacturer. Asked to describe various chocolate, she used terms that we would generally hear when describing wine.
When it came to Hershey's milk chocolate she replied, "baby vomit". If you have a bar handy, smell it. I think she is spot on.

At Walgreen's: Regal Dynasty European Chocolate. Many flavors, with and w/o nuts.

This is discouraging:

http://www.walgreens.com/store/produ...id=prod2612173

Anyone see it in the brick-and-mortar stores?

Best wishes,

Rex

Best chocs are Belges

Leonidas
Jeff de Brugges

I read a book about chocolate tasters and they do use the same kind of language that wine experts do! And the most famous chocolate sniffer in France according to this book was a young woman so I wonder if it was the same one you saw.

When I am in the US next week I will sniff a Hershey bar, they don't sell it here in Lausanne (nor would I buy it if they did!).