Easter. Price, flavors, originality … Our selection of chocolate shops to find the gluttony that suits you

A few days before Easter, the time is for purchases of chocolates. The craftsmen put the small dishes in the big ones to delight all the palaces. We went to Lille shops to find you the best delicacies.

Easter celebrations are fast approaching and reign a pointed atmosphere in the streets of the capital of Flanders. Between the characters, the tablets and the eggs, the offer is plethoric.

To help you see more clearly, we went to meet Lille craftsmen to find you the best addresses of chocolate makers, according to your tastes and those of your loved ones. Originality, price, origin of products … Nothing was left to chance. Here is our selection of chocolate shops.

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The most fancy

World pastry champion, Quentin Bailly has been installed in Old Lille since 2017. Each year, during Easter, the craftsman has fun creating ever more eccentric characters inspired by various and varied themes. This year, it was around the theme “Kingdom of Dunes” that he let his creativity express themselves.

On the dromedar, scorpions and other chocolate ostrips program to delight your taste buds. Last year, he was inspired by 20,000 places on the seas.

For those who will go to the shop, a giant chocolate sculpture is exhibited in the middle of Easter products. In terms of flavors, all palates are there: chocolate frying, fruity, praline mixtures …

Price range: Between 15 and 50 euros

Address : 65 rue des Arts – 59800 Lille

His little extra: The tray of 6 trompe-l’oeil eggs, more true than life.

Poorest

With its window directly overlooking the Lille Grand-Place, it is difficult to miss the Encuntro. This chocolate maker bean-to-bar (which works directly from cocoa beans) is betting on offering only dark chocolate for sale.

The cocoa beans are directly worked in Saint-André-lez-Lille to be sublimated in delicious chocolate. As with coffee lovers, Encuentro wishes to introduce its customers to the subtleties of each bean in its cocoa products. “”What will make its taste is really the terroir. We emancipate typical tastes, because dark chocolate has no typical taste“, informs us a salesperson from the shop.

For Easter, Encuentro deploys its know-how in many products ranging from simple frying, to chocolate characters, passing through the rocks filled with hazelnut. In total, the store works about fifteen references of different beans that give birth to many varieties of chocolate with ever richer tastes.

Price range: From 2.80 euros to more than 100 euros

Address : 62 Place du Général de Gaulle – 59000 Lille

His little extra: Chocolate quarters are available for sale to discover new flavors.

Greedy

Another Lille chocolate maker can boast of offering a craft so -called bean-to-barit’s the Hill Bar. “”From the bean to the chocolate tablet, we make the chocolate ourselves“In Villeneuve d’Ascq tells us an advisor to the shop. But unlike her a counterpart specializing in dark chocolate, Hill Bar takes the fold of gluttony.

Coming on the success of the famous Dubai chocolate, the boutique offers many Easter chocolates with pistachio flavors, but also in praline.

Small rabbits, large eggs … The classics were revisited with a touch of style specific to the store. This year, colorful flowers and crushed hazelnuts have the pacoa shells of Easter eggs.

And for the less receptive to traditional chocolates, pastries made from the same chocolate are also offered for sale. One of their bestsellers: the pastry chocolate tablet, which hides a praline heart.

Price range: Between 11 and 38 euros

Address : 1 bis rue Bartholome Master – 59800 Lille

His little extra: Pastries made with chocolate produced in Villeneuve d’Ascq.

Most traditional

Last in the list, but not the least, when it comes to feasting on the famous Méert house has what it takes. This year for Easter, the Lille tea room has bet on the eggs, in all forms, from the smallest to the most imposing.

“There is something for all budgets“, We are told in store. The sachets containing the smallest eggs are sold at 10.50, the most imposing at 49 euros. The novelty this year: a gourmet egg composed of hazelnut flats filled with praline. The product that pleases the most: the shell egg, a quasi-tromage-egg-egg with the hull.

Price range: Between 10 and 50 euros

Address : 25-27 rue Esquermoise – 59000 Lille

His little extra: A historic shop in Old Lille to (re) visit.