Hotel Chocolat Coming To Chiswick

Planning a shop and cafe on Chiswick High Road before Christmas

Hotel Chocolat branch in Covent Garden

Hotel Chocolat, the luxury chocolatier, has confirmed it is planning to open in Chiswick.

The company, which has over seventy shops in the UK, will open a shop and cafe on the High Road. The company did not confirm the location but said it would be hopeful of an opening in December.

There is local speculation that it may be sited on the former Pain Quotidien premises.

The luxury chocolate company was founded by two business partners as Choc Express in 1993.

In 2003, Choc Express rebranded as Hotel Chocolat and launched its first retail store in the centre of Watford. The company then grew initially to having four stores in the East Anglian area, with stores in Milton Keynes, Cambridge and St Albans opening between 2005 and 2006. Today, the company has over 70 around the UK.

In 2006, the company officially acquired the Rabot Estate in Saint Lucia, and is, to date, the only company in the UK to own its own cocoa plantation. This plantation is one of the reasons given for the company choosing not to be Fair Trade-accredited, as only smallholdings are allowed.

September 14, 2018