Does anyone out there in Fodorland have suggestions for the best chocolate candy purchase while in Germany, Austria or Switzerland?

I love the Ritter-Sport in Germany. I can't get enough of the chocolate covered butter biscuits. My favorites.

I am a FREY-addict. It is my favourite swiss chocolate. Whenever I go to Switzerland, I buy entire pack of Frey Chocolate at Migros, a swiss supermarket chain. They are cheaper there!

Schiesser chocolates from Basel, Switzerland. A boutique chocolate maker, absolutely top quality (and we live in Brussels, where we see a LOT of good chocolate!).

As I type this, I am eating a Villars chocolate bar I bought last week in the Lake Geneva area. The one I am enjoying now is filled with apricot brandy, and the one with cognac is good too.

As for which type of chocolate is best, I'm probably not a good person to ask, since I've never met a chocolate bar I didn't like.

P_M... yuuum... slurp , you make my mouth water...
Among my favourite are CAFFAREL which I think is belgian and which has among its dozens kinds of chocolates the famous and delicious Gianduiotti (the former italian chocolate society I was told once was taken over by Caffarel...). In Germany I loved the popular "Milka" bar.
But now that I think of it... hey guys, how about TOBLERONE??? for years it was my fave until I tasted the praline bar from Frey..... still Toblerone is my second fave...

Ohmygosh, what a wonderful thread. I love Rittersport too, especially the dark chocolate bar with hazelnuts. Trader Joe's has them here in CA for exactly double the cost of buying them in Germany. Next on my list is the liqueur-filled Lindt bars, available in grocery stores in Switzerland and sometimes available in the US. But my absolute fave is Jean Paul Hevin in Paris. Did someone mention chocolate?

Check out this article, then eat more chocolate!!

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe....ap/index.html

For plane supermarket chocolate, Toblerone and Lindt are my favourites (when limited to those countries of course, Belgian chocolate can't be beaten

I second stardust on the belgian chocolate in general, but as we both are belgians... but I am very happy to announce that my neighbour here in switzerland is an acknowledged european-class chocolate chief, which is something very pleasant to have as a neighbour...

Lindt Fioretto from the groceries, Schiesser (Basel) is the best chocolatier I have found so far.

In Germany there is also Feodora, which is more expensive than an ordinary Ritter Sport, but very tasty. They have bright yellow packaging. Their thin bars, each of them packed separately, are to die for.

Another suggestion: Teuscher champagne truffles in Switzerland.

BTW, Caffarel (mentioned above as possibly Belgian) is Italian.

yum... I had forgotten about Lindt chocolate.. how could I? I LOVE their ball chocolates, the ones that have a red wrapping paper that makes them look like a bon bon... they simply MELT in your mouth....

In Switzerland: Lindt Kirsch Batons. Kirsch in chocolate (with sugar crusted on the inside) rolled in dark chocolate dust. I rarely get them because I can't get enough of them! Sold in Co-op but not in Migros.

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Along these lines, did you know that Belgian action movie star Jean Claude Van Damme originally wanted to become a boutique chocolate maker?

I always take Hershey bars, nylon stockings, and Lucky Strike cigarettes to Europe with me. Those European babes really go for the stuff.

RTF:

I bet you will be greeted ever so gratefully!

You heard it here first. There's more evidence that chocolate is good for you!

http://cbs5.com/news/ap/APTV/Nationa...Health-ai.html

(Insert chocolate Smiley)

You are speaking my language. Lindt is my favorite; I love the milk chocolate truffles. I may have to change, though, since it is the dark chocolate that is good for you. Ritter's mint bars aren't bad.