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LET'S GO BAR HOPPING!

There's never been a better time to explore craft chocolate, and there's no better place. To help build a beautiful, sustainable craft chocolate community, Bar Cacao carefully curates its chocolate-making partners for their quality, ethics and passion to help you confidently explore the very finest craft chocolate.

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RITUAL CHOCOLATE

DICK TAYLOR CRAFT CHOCOLATE

DICK TAYLOR CRAFT CHOCOLATE

Ritual Chocolate's Anna Davies and Robbie Stout with their Good Food Award for chocolate

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 Bar Cacao's very first partnership, Ritual makes bold yet beautifully balanced chocolate. Originally two-ingredient chocolate makers, Anna Davies and Robbie Stout have since developed a full line of products, from single-origin bars to the Utah Mountain inclusion line to their full set of drinking chocolates, a nod to Ritual's popularity in specialty coffee shops.


Get acquainted: purchase the Single Origin Collection and join us for happy hour on June 18. Details on Events page.


Park City, Utah

Established 2010

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DICK TAYLOR CRAFT CHOCOLATE

DICK TAYLOR CRAFT CHOCOLATE

DICK TAYLOR CRAFT CHOCOLATE

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Leading the craft chocolate pack with their deservedly popular bars, Adam Dick and Dustin Taylor craft some of the silkiest two-ingredient chocolate you'll find into dazzling filigreed bars and slide them into stylish  letterpressed envelopes. It's a sensual experience from the moment one of these sexy bars catches your eye. Keep an eye out for their limited release, microbatch and seasonal chocolates, like dual-origin chocolate Easter rabbits.


Get acquainted: purchase the Single Origin Tasting Flight and join us for happy hour on June 4. Details on Events page.


 Eureka, California

Established 2010

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FRUITION CHOCOLATE

DICK TAYLOR CRAFT CHOCOLATE

FRUITION CHOCOLATE

Bryan and Dahlia Graham of Fruition Chocolate receiving multiple International Chocolate Awards

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Bryan Graham's always been a talented high achiever, one of craft chocolate's few with a culinary background starting as a young teen pastry chef who quickly rose through New York's ranks before branching out on his own as a confectioner. After the somewhat masochistic move to making the chocolate for his confections, Bryan soon earned his place among the best with his creative range of bars, perhaps most notably his 68% Marañon Milk bar, formerly a limited-release Bar Cacao exclusive and now a serial award winner, crowned the International Chocolate Award's best milk chocolate in 2016. 


Get acquainted: purchase the Bar Cacao Tasting Event Set and join us for happy hour on June 11. Details on Events page.


Shokan, New York

Established 2011

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ZOTTER CHOCOLATES

CASTRONOVO CHOCOLATE

FRUITION CHOCOLATE

Zotter Chocolate Labooko and Hand-Scooped chocolate bars

It's not enough to refer to the wonderful world of Zotter: with hundreds of kooky creations available at any given time, the unique universe of Zotter dazzles with creativity and flavor, all coming from Josef Zotter's farmland factory in Austria. From single-origin bars to truffle-like hand-scooped bars to vegan, lactose-free and sugar-free options, there's not a chance you won't find a zany delight to love. 


Get acquainted: purchase the large Discovery Pack for a range of chocolates from single-origin Labooko to layered Hand Scooped chocolates.


Riegersburg, Austria

Chocolate making since 2008


Zotter USA 

Cape Coral, Florida

Established 2014

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CASTRONOVO CHOCOLATE

CASTRONOVO CHOCOLATE

CASTRONOVO CHOCOLATE

Denise Castronovo of Castronovo Chocolate in Stuart Florida pours sugar into melanger

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Denise Castronovo is frequently referred to as one of the best female chocolate makers in the world; I comfortably skip the gender adjective when describing her luxuriously satisfying chocolate. Denise's single-origin chocolates are as decadent as her line of dark milk, mocha and white chocolates. Her background in ecology leads her to carefully sourcing for both flavor and positive impact.


Get acquainted: Arhuacos, The Lost City, Tumaco Mocha and Sierra Nevada Dark Milk chocolates are easy to love.


Stuart, Florida

Established 2012

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FRESCO CHOCOLATE

CASTRONOVO CHOCOLATE

CASTRONOVO CHOCOLATE

Amy Anderson of Fresco Chocolate at the Northwest Chocolate Festival in Seattle

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As a craft chocolate advocate, I chose to partner with Fresco early on for its chocolate that's as revelatory as it is delectable: just two tastes convey the chocolate-making variables of origin, roasting, conching and percentage. The original chocolate geek Rob Anderson engineers single-origin bars of various roasting and conching profiles for your analytical and gustatorily pleasure. Wife Amy runs the show while Rob tends to his day job as, you guessed it, an engineer. 


Get acquainted: Pick up the 100% Chocolate Tasting Kit or the Roast Comparison Tasting Kit for a ready-made world-class chocolate-tasting experience.


Linden, Washington

Established 2010

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SOMA CHOCOLATEMAKER

AMANO ARTISAN CHOCOLATE

AMANO ARTISAN CHOCOLATE

Soma Chocolate's Cynthia Leung in Toronto holding happy cacao bean

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Cynthia Leung and David Castellan are old school chocolate makers. Literally. Their whimsical genius prolifically delivers delights like stone-ground Old School bars, gelato, pastries, confections, fruit bars and hands down some of the finest small-batch chocolate on Earth. It's so intoxicating I made a trip to Toronto just to court them as partners and have my way with their products. (Don't call it stalking.) 


Get acquainted: snag a coveted Venezuelan origin bar; these have a deserved tendency to earn the International Chocolate Award's World Gold award.


Toronto, Ontario

Established 2003

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AMANO ARTISAN CHOCOLATE

AMANO ARTISAN CHOCOLATE

AMANO ARTISAN CHOCOLATE

Art Pollard of Amano Chocolate in Orem Utah

FREE SHIPPING on orders over $60


The very first chocolate maker I met back in his early days, Art Pollard and I quickly bonded over our Venezuelan cacao-related travels. An early leader of the craft chocolate movement, he crafts award-winning chocolate that leans European in style; Art's one of the few to use vanilla beans and source cacao exclusively and directly. 


Get acquainted: That Dos Rios bar sings sweetly and harmoniously of warming spices and orange zest, and Guayas of blackberry cobbler. Raspberry Rose is a perennial pleaser.


Orem, Utah

Established 200

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DANDELION CHOCOLATE

AMANO ARTISAN CHOCOLATE

DANDELION CHOCOLATE

Wrapping chocolate bars at Dandelion Chocolate in San Francisco

FREE SHIPPING on orders over $25


Dandelion Chocolate's popularity is deserved not just for its broad range of beautifully wrapped single-origin, two-ingredient 70% chocolate bars but also for its wonderfully welcoming, informative vibe. Stop by the new factory for a tour or Bloom for tea service to die for. Geek out on a tour of the new factory, an online class or even a cacao origin trip.


San Francisco, CA

Established 

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GOODNOW FARMS

20/20 CHOCOLATE

DANDELION CHOCOLATE

FREE SHIPPING with $75 purchase


Tom and Monica Rogan are a rarity in the craft chocolate world in that they press cocoa butter for their chocolates. "True to the bean" is their motto, with not only cocoa butter pressed from each origin's beans but also a light roast to preserve the bean's primary aromas.


Sudbury, MA

Established 2017

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20/20 CHOCOLATE

20/20 CHOCOLATE

20/20 CHOCOLATE

Alfredo Esteves of 20/20 Chocolate at the 2020 Craft Chocolate Experience in San Francisco

Valencia, Venezuela

Established 2017

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CACAO DE ORIGEN

20/20 CHOCOLATE

20/20 CHOCOLATE

Caracas, Venezuela

Established 2012

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MISSION CHOCOLATE

LUMINEUX CHOCOLATE

LUMINEUX CHOCOLATE

Sao Paolo, Brazil

Established 2014

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LUMINEUX CHOCOLATE

LUMINEUX CHOCOLATE

LUMINEUX CHOCOLATE

FREE SHIPPING with $75 purchase


Travelers Rest, South Carolina

Established 2020

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MAUI CHOCOLATE

LUMINEUX CHOCOLATE

SPINNAKER CHOCOLATE

FREE SHIPPING with $100 purchase


Maui, Hawaii

Established 2019

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SPINNAKER CHOCOLATE

SPINNAKER CHOCOLATE

SPINNAKER CHOCOLATE

FREE SHIPPING with $40 purchase


Seattle, WA

Established 2021

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LONOHANA CHOCOLATE

SPINNAKER CHOCOLATE

LONOHANA CHOCOLATE

O'ahu, Hawaii

Established 2014

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Friends in chocolate

OBOLO CHOCOLATE

PATRIC CHOCOLATE

OBOLO CHOCOLATE

Obolo Chocolate bean to bar maker in Santiago, Chile
Established 2014

Santiago, Chile

Established 2014

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CRU CHOCOLATE

PATRIC CHOCOLATE

OBOLO CHOCOLATE


Sacramento, California

Established 2016

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PATRIC CHOCOLATE

PATRIC CHOCOLATE

CHARM SCHOOL CHOCOLATE

Colombia, MO

Established 2007

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CHARM SCHOOL CHOCOLATE

CHARM SCHOOL CHOCOLATE

CHARM SCHOOL CHOCOLATE

Josh Rosen of Charm School Chocolate at the 2020 Craft Chocolate Experience in San Francisco

Hunt Valley, Maryland

Established 2012

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BAR AU CHOCOLAT

CHARM SCHOOL CHOCOLATE

BAR AU CHOCOLAT

Bar au Chocolat chocolate bars Manhattan Beach, California

Manhattan Beach, California

Established 2010

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Previous Partners

Rogue Chocolatier

Hummingbird Chocolate

Askinosie Chocolate

Rogue Chocolatier 75% Silvestre single-origin small-batch two-ingredient chocolate

Three Rivers, Massachusetts

Established 2007

Askinosie Chocolate

Hummingbird Chocolate

Askinosie Chocolate

Askinosie Farmshop Chocolate 101 chocolate tasting course with Shawn Askinosie

Springfield, Missouri

Established 2007

Hummingbird Chocolate

Hummingbird Chocolate

Hummingbird Chocolate

Hummingbird Chocolate International Chocolate Awards 2017 Canadian Gold Award for Hispaniola 70%

Alamonte, Ontario

Established 2012

Sirene Chocolate

Sirene Chocolate

Hummingbird Chocolate

Sirene Chocolate tasting pairs

Vancouver, British Colombia

Established 2013

Palette de Bine

Sirene Chocolate

Palette de Bine

Christine Blais of Palette de Bine selling chocolate in Mont-Tremblant, Canada

Mont Tremblant, Quebec

Established 2014

Willie's Cacao

Sirene Chocolate

Palette de Bine

Willie's Cacao chocolate products

Devon, England

Established 2007

Chocolate Tree

Chocolate Tree

Chocolate Tree

Dunbar, Scotland

Established 2007

Mission: Craft Chocolate CA

Bar Cacao brings beautiful bars from the following makers to you in LA & the Bay via happy hours and collaborations with specialty shops:

Ritual, Dick Taylor, Fresco, Askinosie, Fruition, Dandelion, Bar au Chocolat, Rogue & more


Are you a chocolate maker? Whether you’re just starting to fall in love with making chocolate or you’re working to get your beautiful bars to a wide and passionate audience of chocolate bar hoppers in California and beyond, please don’t hesitate to connect! I’m a most helpful chocolate bar tender.


Are you a retailer? Like what you see? Want to create a craft chocolate program of any size? Reach out!

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