CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATE #1 in NE Florida
Yummy Hunters Always Searching for the Best! - by Ed Stone.

Claude’s Chocolate, the fine European-style chocolate shoppe in historic downtown St. Augustine has been named the #1 Chocolate “Editor’s Pick of Water’s Edge Magazine”* (September 2007).

Claude is now producing dark Belgian chocolate covered caramel popcorn and milk chocolate covered Cherrios – added to the 28 signature bon bons that have lured patrons to Claude’s for two years.

When chocolate lovers walk up the 3 steps to Claude’s Chocolate on historic Hypolita Street in ‘the Old City’, yummy hunters find shelves laden with an abundance of visually stunning confections. Claude also makes full-bodied luxurious Belgian chocolate cocoa, edible chocolate boxes filled with bon bons and a decadent double chocolate mudslide cookie. Surprises from Claude’s chocolate kitchen are offered seasonally.

Slowly bite into any of Claude’s Chocolate and you could forget that he is a classically certified Chef and pastry chef who has worked in many of the finest hotels and restaurants in France and New York. But there is nothing ‘snobby’ or pretentious here. His techniques and resulting chocolates are pure. Claude and Nicole Franques enjoy serving their patrons only the finest confections crafted one by one in small quantities. Each chocolate is a delight to the eye and filled with the fresh, deep aroma of Belcolade Belgian chocolate.

The glamorous confections are sophisticated, stylish and absolutely the finest; and when Nicole strolls you through the various signature assortments, she brings an added pleasure to Claude’s world-class gourmet chocolates.