# The best chocolate brands in the world

Chocolate makers that experts, pastry chefs and chocolate reviewers rate highest, from bean-to-bar connoisseur brands to the best supermarket chocolate.

- 59 votes · 13 items
- Feb 20, 2025 · Amber Watson
- https://even.best/en/l/206/the-best-chocolate-brands-in-the-world

## Top 12

1. **Lindt & Sprüngli (Switzerland)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Inventor of conching (1879); Lindt Excellence is experts' best everyday dark chocolate.
2. **Michel Cluizel (France)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Family chocolatier known for single-plantation bars.
3. **Valrhona (France)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — The 'Rolls-Royce of chocolate', founded in 1922 in Tain-l'Hermitage; the chocolate top pastry chefs reach for.
4. **Pierre Marcolini (Belgium)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Brussels chocolatier and World Pastry Champion, bean-to-bar pralines.
5. **Pralus (France)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Roanne chocolatier famous for its 'Pyramide des Tropiques' of single origins.
6. **Original Beans (Netherlands)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Climate-positive bean-to-bar chocolate with rare origins.
7. **Amedei (Italy)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Tuscan bean-to-bar maker; its Porcelana bar is famed as one of the world's most expensive chocolates.
8. **Neuhaus (Belgium)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — The house that invented the praline in 1912.
9. **Askinosie (USA)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Missouri bean-to-bar maker sourcing direct from farmers.
10. **Godiva (Belgium)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Brussels pralines sold worldwide since 1926.
11. **Domori (Italy)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Specialist in rare criollo cacao.
12. **Ritter Sport (Germany)** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Square bars in dozens of flavours, a supermarket favourite.
13. **Läderach (Switzerland)** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — Fresh 'FrischSchoggi' bark chocolate from Glarus.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.