This Caffarel chocolate is available by order only. Simply tell us the desired quantity, and we will take care of the rest.

  Ah… the dark chocolate first. Intense, deep, with just the right amount of bitterness to make me stand a little straighter. Then comes the pistachio—round, sweet, almost buttery—and everything softens all at once. I am sitting at a small table, it is mild outside, someone is ordering a second coffee behind me. I find myself smiling without realizing it. The scent of pistachio lingers long after the last bite, and I already know I’m going to have another square. Just one. One single square doesn't count.

The dark chocolate yields under the tooth, and underneath, the pistachio cream awaits, sweet and smooth: in a single bite, you are seated in a Turin café.

It’s four o'clock, somewhere in Piedmont. On the counter of a small café, the espresso machine sighs, the newspaper lies near a cup, and beside it, a bar of chocolate is broken without ceremony. Nobody is watching the clock. This is a break, a real one, the kind you take for the sheer pleasure of it.

This bar bears the name Caffarel, a house founded in 1826 in Piedmont, at the foot of the Alps. Almost two centuries spent working with cocoa, balancing bitterness and sweetness, finding that equilibrium that makes it impossible to settle for just one square. Here, the intensity of dark chocolate meets a delicately scented pistachio cream, and the two complement rather than compete with each other.

You don’t buy this chocolate to curb a sugar craving. You buy it to rediscover an Italian pastry spotted down a side street, a square shared on a park bench, that trip you’re still talking about years later. You buy it to remember.

And here, in Canada, on an ordinary weeknight, with a coffee cooling beside an open book, you only need to break off a square: for a few seconds, the kitchen smells like Piedmont.

Why our customers love it

• The intensity of dark chocolate softened by a smooth pistachio cream
• A Piedmontese house that has been working with chocolate since 1826
• A 180g size, perfect for treating yourself or as a gift
• Excellent with an espresso, a long black, or a glass of sweet wine
• A gift that brings a smile to those who know Italy, and those who dream of going
• And the best reason to treat yourself to a real break tonight

The chocolate leaves our warehouse in perfect condition. Once the package is handed over to the carrier, we cannot control where it is left or at what temperature. We cannot, therefore, be held responsible if the chocolate melts during delivery. During the hot season, ordering is at your own risk.