Candifrutto La Bottega del CioccolatoA chocolate workshop with more than fifty years of experience behind it. Established in 1974, the craftsmanship with which it produces its creations has never changed and the shop with its wood shelves has the appearance of an old-fashioned grocery store. As its name suggests, it originally specialised in candied fruits, which have been “taken over” by chocolate in the course of time: hence the iconic “tartine”, or slices, wafer-thin single-portion chocolate bars studded with candied fruit. Not to be missed at any cost is the plain chocolate and orange, arguably the strong point of the collection. There is something for everyone, however: from milk chocolate slices with coffee beans, with PGI Piemonte hazelnuts or almonds, to the plain chocolate versions, much loved purists, with pistachios, figs, clementines, crushed cocoa beans, mostarda and morello cherries. The creative Easter eggs are also impressive in season.
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