I am a newbie to Switzerland and i had heard a lot about SWISS chocolates but after coming here, i have generally eaten chocolates picked off the shelves off coop, migros, denner and sometimes manor.
they have been different brands;different tastes etc. If i like something, i try it the next time. if i don't, i stay off it.
But now, i want to send some chocolates back home. So i was wondering where could i find the real good swiss chocolates.
I know, first thing people will ask is how much i want to spend !!
well, i am looking to buy a mixed bag of chocolates so i do not mind buying some exotic ones as well(you see i wont get to send back chocolates home so frequently so i wanna send some nice stuff)
SO just advice me on the best chocolates, leave the searching about prices on me
thats a bit odd: you taste stuff, like it, want to send it but think its not special enough? do you want to show-off or send good chocolate? obviously sprüngli does very good stuff, but however you send it, the freshness is gone by the time its there. i like those frigor bags. its 18chf for how much? a kg? 500g?
For me, both quality and presentation goes to Teuscher. Actually, my preferences are for the "non-chocolates" like the baked goods they do (apfelstrusel and punschkugeln). However I will admit they're not on the forefront of creativity and imagination, though you may struggle to find this in Switzerland at all.
I don't know the area around Geneva at all but a friend of mine who worked there used to bring back the most amazing chocolate in the world, just plain little pieces of chocolate in a box from a specialist maker in Geneva. I would imagine in the central city there it would not be too much of a challenge to find one. I would imagine hideous prices would be a good indication that you have found the right thing. My suggestion would be to find a really good one and then go and talk to them about it.
This stuff was seriously more addictive than pretty much any substance that I have had before and thanks for reminding me of good Swiss chocolate. Now I need to get a bank loan and go and find some.
very nice chocolaate shop in Bougy Villars - think its called Tristan but shouldn't be hard to find as its a tiny village. Never tried it myself but have heard only good things about it. Probably about half an hoour from Lausanne.
I would surely send the stuff i liked. but since i have been here for a just a couple of months now, i am sure i haven't tried all what swiss has to offer.
so wanted to know is there anything special that i may want to send.
The "specials" you see.
and surely it isnt about show off as it is my own family that would eat so i just want to send the best. No one is going to judge me you see
Chocolate, just as wine, is subject to taste. So, simply buy chocolates YOU liked. I would not advocate Migros, not because their stuff is bad, for the simple reason that all chocolate at Migros comes from the Migros subsidiary Frey. Realize that Lidl and Aldi cannot give cheaper prices as they HAD to get CH chocolate into their assortments at the "recommended" retail price. The idea is that you go to a shop you like and which has a nice assortment of chocolates and make your collection. And realize that a high price does not mean superior quality automatically and that a "noble shop" does not really mean superior quality.
any chance that you could find the maker's name for me. would love that. I can wait for a week (will go geneva next saturday) so if you could fine me the name, that would be great
and good luck with your chocolate trail with the bank load
I would NOT buy expensive stuff, but rather a variety of different things. But just one hint, if you are to send chocolate to India, rather keep to dark chocolate which has a far higher chance to survive the transport well.
Hey, thats the precise reason that i wrote the post. to find out about some brands which i can try and choose. Because i have not had a whole lot of chocolates to choose from.
varities of Lindt and toblerones are the pick right now but i am sure there are others too
Yes, do visit them and do ask about transporting them, especially long distances. The ones that I was talking about almost did not survive the trip back to the UK. They are very time and temperature sensitive little things.
If the OP's choc is destined for the UK, I would not recommend buying either Lindt or Suchard. Bizarrely both of those brands are available much cheaper in most of the supermarkets over there. How does that work??
When I was last there Morrisons was selling the new line of Lindt for about 75% of the price in Coop here!
It is NOT bizarre at all. For the CH chocolate industry the UK has been a supreme market for a century. In order to be competitive, the UK market is cross-subisdized by moving costs (for instance the transport) over onto the home-market, and this is not new but very old. Particularily the Greater London Area gets preferential treatment.
So, if living here and visiting family in the U.K., collect some Coop and Denner bags plus some labels of each, take the bags etc to London, go shopping CH-chocolates there, re-label them, and then carry on
By "new" I meant their latest product at the time (choc with some fleur de sel in it), not new as a brand.
Lindt mainly does well there because they sell the high cocoa stuff which is good for cooking.
Swiss cheese is also a lot cheaper in the UK supermarkets. Emmentaler and Gruyère (genuine, not the fabricated stuff from the factory round the corner) were selling for significantly less per kilo than either Coop or Migros.
Maybe they slip some in with the chocolate order...
By the way this was NOT in Greater London, much further north than that...
A) No, Lindt chocolate is excellent for consumption as Tafel-Schokolade, and for sure not particularily as cooking chocolate. And their high cocoa stuff of course is top stuff for general consumption.
B) What I said about chocolate also is valid in case of cheese. And the producers of the Emmentaler cheese send their grade-A produce to Britain at cross-subisdized prices, in order to meet the competition of the sort of cheddar which is very similar to the Emmentaler and far cheaper
C) you can find such practices also elsewhere in the world.