What makes chocolate the perfect gift at Christmas? The short answer is because everybody loves chocolate, right? The long answer has many reasons; some steeped in tradition tracing back to the middle ages others relate it back to science, specifically a unique chemical aroma that our brains love – the rich chocolaty smells combined with the sweet smooth taste helps us to recapture happy memories. So, when did we start giving chocolate gifts at Christmas? Chocolate has been given as a gift for many centuries.  A tradition that dates back to ancient times when the Aztecs presented cups of chocolate...

Don't resign yourself to eating grocery store confections for 24 days, treat yourself to some delicious quality chocolate!  Our exclusive handmade Lindt Lindor Advent Calendars are back in stock. . .  As if you need a reason to eat 24 Lindt chocolates! Whether you are religious or just happy it's the festive season, opening that little numbered door to reveal a delicious treat is still the best way to enjoy each day in December in the run-up to Christmas Day - especially if it reveals 24 different flavours of your favourite Lindt Lindor chocolates! We all love the anticipation of...

How will you be celebrating World Chocolate Day this year? Here at The Chocolate Emporium, we don’t need a special day to celebrate all things chocolate, but as World Chocolate Day falls on 7 July each year, we thought we would mark the occasion with some little known and sometimes whacky facts about this most revered sweet treat. We all know the fact that chocolate comes from the seed of the tropical Theobroma Cacao tree and Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia and grows in Mexico, Central America, and Northern South America, but here are some facts...

Well, according to new data, Chocolate and Vodka! There’s been an inevitable increase in online shopping as lots of shoppers are switching from traditional buying methods, mostly through necessity as people are self-isolating, but also because a lot of high street shops selling these items have not been allowed to open at all! Now we’re all getting more savvy to ordering online, it appears that 40% of us are doing more online shopping – up from just 16% at the beginning of lockdown. Buying stuff we only ever bought in high street stores, another third of us are turning to...