The Chocolate Café

We stumbled upon this place on our walk through Ramsbottom on the way back to the car. We were looking at the menu in the window and before I had finished, Mr. Snarky was holding the door open for me. Telepathic or just knows me too well??? On the ground floor is the Chocolate Café shop. On the left are their chocolate bars, boxed chocolates, etc. They do sell chocolate bars that can be personalized on the box. There is also chocolate for those that bake and drinking chocolate mixes.
If you go to the right, you’ll see the area where they create the chocolate treats. On the day we were there, they were making more chocolate bars. If you walk upstairs you can enjoy the café. It was quite busy when we went and while we had a short wait for someone to seat us, we did get to have cheeky peek at the cakes! They do have a savoury menu if you would like lunch. It looked like the standard sandwiches and salads, but a lot of people seemed to be enjoying their lunch.
For sweet treats, they have quite a few varieties of hot chocolate, which were very enticing, but I thought: 1) it might be too sweet with my dessert and 2) I’m a lactard and I don’t know how much it would affect me. They have cakes, tray bakes, ice cream sundaes, and chocolate tasting plates. They also have an Afternoon Tea option and then they have a selection of chocolate items for only the serious chocolate lover at just under £18. If we had not had lunch earlier, we may have considered this, but it just sounded like too much. They do have a chocolate tasting plate for just under £8, but it doesn’t mention what is included and as a result, I decided to go with a piece of cake, the Blueberry Cake. Mr. Snarky went with the Knickerbocker Glory.
The staff seemed to be run off their feet so it felt a bit chaotic. We did wait quite some time which I thought was a bit odd for a pot of tea, a slice of cake, and an ice cream sundae. I have uploaded some pictures of our treats. The cake was nice although some of it was a bit dry, perhaps from sitting out. I did have a small scoop of ice cream on the plate with a drizzle of chocolate, although the chocolate does harden as it sits on the ice cream, so be careful! And Mr. Snarky’s Knickerbocker Glory was impressive although what was interesting was that they used Fruit Cocktail. I know everyone makes it differently, but it was funny when I had a taste that I immediately knew it was the fruit cocktail of my childhood. Maybe if my mom had packed the fruit cocktail with some ice cream and chocolate sauce, I would have enjoyed it or at least have been able to trade it ;). We picked up our bill on the way downstairs since none of the staff members were walking our way, and paid downstairs on the way out.
It is a bit pricey, but it is a nice treat and I do think I will be back to buy some Christmas gifts/​stocking stuffers for my family. I would be interested to know if they do chocolate making lessons, that would be a fun afternoon!

Visited this place a few times while living in Ramsbottom and loved it. My only quibble would be the price but when you take into consideration this is a small, independent business, that’s to be expected. Good atmosphere, wonderful drinks and treats, and it’s an excellent place to seek out a special treat for friends and family.

Wow — what a selection of hot chocolate! And yes I realise that may sound stupid since this is a chocolate café. I was maybe expecting 5 varieties or something but there are at least 12!!!
First time I went here (when visiting the AMAZING farmer’s market) I had lemon hot chocolate! I had never heard of such a thing and was pleasantly surprised. It didn’t look particularly appetising being green and all but it was beautifully refreshing and not heavy at all. They serve their hot chocs in glass where they coat the glass in your chocolate of choice and then the hot milk in the middle so you stir it in yourself, with a chocolate straw.
Second time around (again visiting the market) I tried the orange hot chocolate which was actually orange in colour. I usually love chocolate orange stuff but this bus just a bit too much like orange milk for me to call it chocolate. Nice none the less though.
Haven’t tried the food there yet, but I’m sure we’ll be back soon.
I think they are trying to compete with Slattery’s but in my opinion their hot chocolate will always be top of the top!
mwah x

Although all previous reviews are good, I must say that I am not impressed by customer service. I ordered a £50 hamper three weeks ago for a friend’s birthday 2 weeks ago. Her birthday is long gone and rather than an apology, I received an attitude about not putting the correct address down.
The address WAS incomplete but other things have sent to the same friend using the same address have got to her. I think unless the brand can grow a little and improve its distribution network, I will not be ordering from them again… I mean they’re not the only people making artisan chocolate and for £50 I expect a little more supplier attention/​deference.
Not impressed but will write another review about the product (as objective as I can be) when (if) it arrives!
Kaya

Okay so this place does exactly what it says on the tin, chocolate, chocolate & oh yeah chocolate, and on that front it does it very well.
The array of different types of chocolate on offer in the shop is fabulous & in my humble opinion better than the more commercial option of Hotel Chocolate, and this is one aspect of the place I would recommend.
However the café its self is a tad over priced & a little underwhelming when you stray away from the speciality chocolate related options.
The café being local to my in laws means we’ve been several times & although the staff are friendly I seem to walk away each time only really satisfied by the 70% cocoa hot chocolate but over £30 lighter in the pocket.

The Chocolate Café used to have a branch in Manchester city centre on Deansgate, but that has now closed down, meaning if you want to enjoy their unbelievable chocolaty services, you will have to journey to Bury, or order online.
They sell literally everything you can imagine in the chocolate world. The showpiece though, has to be the chocolate pizzas. These can be 6 inch (£7.95) or 9 inch (10.95) and each come with 3 toppings of your choice!
Available toppings include white, dark or milk chocolate curls, strawberry curls, salami made of White Chocolate Jazzies, black olives made of Dark Chocolate Buttons, green olives made of Lemon Flavour Buttons and much much more!
They even sell drinking chocolates that are literally next level, including a box of real chocolate buttons that melt into drinking chocolate. Not only normal chocolate flavour eiher but strawberry drinking chocolate, orange drinking chocolate and caramel drinking chocolate, as well as the white dark and milk chocolate options!
For Christmas presents they do amazing chocolate hampers for your chocolate loving family members.
Amazing chocolaty joy!
P. S. according to Microsoft word ‘chocolaty’ is a valid word.

Great friendly service, good selection of drinks & a nice simple menu. Not the cheapest café, but if you don’t mind paying a bit extra it is well worth it. The shop is well stocked and reasonably priced, with a good selection of whole leaf teas.

Not enough tables, slow service and overpriced sandwiches/​drinks. Good quality and novel idea but a little sparse.

oh my god!!! discovered this place last weekend. It’s like the ultimate chocolate fantasy. A chocolate shop downstairs selling amazing handmade chocolates, and then a café upstairs with 14 different flavours of hot chocolates that you make yourself at the table!!! mmmmmmmmmmmmmm :-) Also had a white chocolate fondue with strawberries and fudge to dip in. Heaven!