Melt has the most incredibly creative kitchen...
We have a team of skilled chocolatiers making chocolates on a daily basis in our Notting Hill kitchen. Please come in and watch them work; chocolate being made is fascinating and the smell is intoxicating!
We only use the most interesting and delicious chocolate we can find and create award winning chocolates that we adapt to the seasons.
chef's chocolates…
A collaboration between melt and London's best chefs resulting in stunning chocolates.
Sophie Conran 
"Melt's master chocolatier and I had many excited and sometimes bizarre chats about flavour combinations that we could use from my book 'Sophie Conran's Pies' (Collins). After lots of heavenly tasting sessions we all agreed that the Earl Grey tea, ginger and cranberry was absolutely sublime."
To find out more about Sophie and her other exciting ventures - her ever expanding Portmeirion home wares range, delicious collection of pie recipes from her debut cook book 'Sophie Conran Pies' and the various columns in lifestyle and food magazines composed and edited by Sophie, please log on to www.sophieconran.com
Skye Gyngell
Skye Gyngell, the highly acclaimed head chef of Petersham Nurseries Cafe and award winning cookery writer has collaborated with Melt to create a delicious dark chocolate truffle.
Skye and Melt's Master chocolatier worked together to create an elegant, slightly salty, dark chocolate truffle with a hint of caramel. Well balanced and perfectly satisfying, this truffle is made using...
Mark Hix
Mark, author of the recently published award winning British Regional Food (Quadrille) loves British fruit flavours such as elderflower or apple. After much research and a request from Mark to choose the fabulous Temperley Somerset Cider Brandy – our Master Chocolatier, created Apple & Cinnamon Bonbon – a successful combination of dark 66% chocolate from the Caribbean, pure apple, a 3 year old Temperley Apple Brandy, organic butter, fresh cream and cinnamon.
The River Cafe
Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers of the River Café inspired melt's master chocolatier, to create a stunning Dark Chocolate Truffle.
... a rich, decadent Italian style truffle using one of the highest quality chocolates available, '9', from the exclusive Italian company, Amedei. A 75% bitter chocolate, beautifully balanced with cocoa from 9 different bean varieties from 9 plantations.
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what people are saying...
"the UK's most fashionable chocolate emporium" - The Independent, The 50 Best Online Food Shops.
"the city's coolest new chocolatier" - Time Out
"What Melt are doing at the moment is inspirational" - Financial Times
"...my rule is if you don't know someone very well, then give them something delicious to eat. Which is why Melt Chocolates is my new "present" shop. But beware... I had only one present to give, but came away with two boxes." - Vanity Fair The A - List
"Best Flavoured Chocolate - these cute bars look glamorous enough to pass off as posh, but offer the satisfaction of eating a king-size Yorkie... a really delicious taste" - Olive Magazine
As with any interesting project - good work always comes from great collaborations.
Our Site:
Originally the work of web designers Big Fish. They helped us enormously to get our "online" ball rolling and their good work paved the way to our current online identity.
Since August 07 our online collaborators have changed to Creative Made, specialists in emerging digital technologies and online marketing.
Working with the existing framework, Creative Made have rebuilt, refined and added to our online identity. We hope in early 2008 to re-design our online e-commerce site totally.
Newsletters and Direct Mailing:
In addition to the website Creative Mailer support us with the designing and delivery of our HTML email services. If you would like to sign up of our news letters, tastings and events, please click here.
Site photography:
Provided by James Bedford and more recently by Alexander Sandover (M.A. photography, RCA)
And finally our Chef Chocolate collaborators:
Mark Mix of the Caprice Group
Sophie Conran
Skye Gyngell, of Petersham Nurseries Cafe
Rose and Ruth of the River Café
I really hope you enjoy using our website and buying our chocolates, if you have any questions or comments for me, please feel free to contact me.
Many Thanks
Louise Nason