At Ambiance Chocolat, our boutique chocolates reflect our passion for superior quality, commitment to freshness and imaginative combinations resulting in unforgettable taste experiences. By using fair trade and local ingredients where possible, we are contributing to the sustainable way of living in our community and beyond. Our chocolates are handcrafted on the premises, using original recipes created by chocolatier Patrick Smets. Patrick uses Michel Cluizel and Valrhona chocolate as his base, skillfully combining single origin chocolates and blends with hand-picked ingredients, both fresh and preserved, to create the best tasting treats possible. Freshness is imperative to a great tasting chocolate, which is why we limit our production to small batches.more...See more text
“You start with a citrusy note. Then you’re hit with the caramel and then just at the end when you think the feeling is already gone, you get this surprising hit of heat in your throat. And you think, ‘Oh, there’s the jalapeno. I thought it wasn’t there.”
What Beata Brutovska describes is not a glass of wine, or a fancy cup of coffee. She’s speaking of the experience of eating a jalapeno caramel chocolate from her shop, Ambiance Chocolat.
Handmade using unique, finely tuned recipes, Beata boasts that her chocolates are unlike any other in the city because of this gradual development of layered flavours, along with the careful consideration and matching of what Beata calls the taste profiles of single-origin chocolates. Each chocolate comes from a specific region, mostly South America, and boasts a distinct flavour. “One might have a more deep, fruity taste. Another might be more earthy,” Beata says. “What we do is pair these taste profiles with their best counterpart. Let’s say there’s a chocolate from Venezuela that has a red berry flavour to it without adding anything. So prepare that with a raspberry purée and what you get is a really punchy burst of flavour in your mouth.”
Excellent hot choclate. Beautiful truffles including pistachio and caramel. They sell cocoa powder and semi sweet chocolate chips by weight too. Very knowledgeable about the art of chocolate.
