The best chocolatiers Côte d'Azur

Creating an authentic, richly-flavored spread without palm oil or artificial flavors? That's the bold challenge set by Catherine Brothier and her brother Yves Zuconi. These two gourmands with a passion for cooking have created a richly-flavored spread, with fine Piedmont hazelnuts, real vanilla and fair-trade cocoa beans. Many top hotels offer this wonderful spread in their establishments. You can find it in Biot at Catherine's partners, the Bee Riviera boutique.

For fans of sweet treats, two stores are better than one! In these establishments, a profusion of sweets awaits you: mignardises, macaroons, cakes, pastries, chocolates... Each creation is a symphony of flavors, where simple ingredients blend harmoniously with shimmering colors. This family-run business relies on surprising textures, aromas and shapes to stand out from the crowd. Enjoy these creations on the terrace.

Puyricard is, of course, a specialist in quality chocolate, but also knows how to charm your taste buds by other delicacies such as sugar, candied fruits, orangettes and citronettes, almond paste, fruit pulp, caramel, hard and tender nougats, macaroons, marshmallows, gras, gras, rosé champagne, honey, almond, versinthe, rosé champagne, chocolates, calissons, ingots, frozen chestnuts, pacifiers… For yourself, or as a box to offer, think of your pleasure!

A new gourmet jewel has recently conquered the rue Saint-Sébastien: the Marc Pignot Saint-Saëns chocolate factory. After many years in the capital, the artisan chocolatier and his wife Gordana have moved south to offer a wide range of ganaches, pralines, truffles, coated fruits, mendiants, macaroons and calissons, not forgetting the bûchette, a praline delicacy with a mixture of crushed nuts and nougatine. Low-sugar, low-fat creations.

This chocolate maker, already installed in Roquebrune-sur-Argens, also has an establishment in the center of Saint-Raphaël. He makes and sells many confectionery products, starting with nougats and delicious chocolates, including the local specialty, the Rocher de Roquebrune, a nougat surrounded by chocolate lightly scented with orange. The chocolate factory also offers a chocolate bar, with chocolate recipes to be drunk hot or cold throughout the year.

Since 2015, La Maison Duplanteur has taken pride of place in Grasse's historic center, quickly becoming an iconic chocolate shop. Its boutique is brimming with irresistible delights, offering a wide range of prestigious bars and boxes, perfect for gift-giving or pampering yourself. These delights are also available on their online boutique. Nothing beats a visit to the factory to find out more about the chocolate-making process, from roasting to tasting! So don't miss the chance to indulge in some delicious chocolate.

This confectionery-confectionery manufactures and sells Provençal chocolates and specialities. In particular, Didier Carrié created a unique recipe for the "Agay d'Agay", a white chocolate truffle, flavoured with vegetable liquor and lemon, and rolled in the powder of mimosa.

For over 20 years, this organic confectionery factory, in collaboration with the horticulturists of the Grasse pool of the chocolates, biscuits and sweets based on natural flavours of flowers. You trouve des sugars flavoured with pink, violet, the poppyseed, the mimosa but also confit and the frost of flowers.

Sarah and Nicolas have decided to present their culinary creations in this charming boutique. She works at the Saint Joseph orchard where she grows fruits that she then prepares into jams, syrups and fruit jellies. He created Les Délices du Gélas and makes ice creams and sorbets (to be enjoyed after a hike!), but also nougats, marrons glacés and chocolates. As you can see, this store is full of home-made sweets and other gourmet creations, made by the couple's expert hands in their workshop.

Notice to the greedy or a gift idea, this new boutique on Puget Square offers you a wide choice of chocolates in all its forms of chocolate maker Yves Thuriès. To you de among ballotins, prestige boxes, tablets, bites, and of course Easter eggs! Black, white, milk, dried fruit, we're craquerait for everyone. Greedy coffees will allow you to discover different flavours unless you indulge in hot chocolate in the old (on-site or take-away) and ice cream or to enjoy a terrace during the summer.