Posted on 11/16/2025 11:09:08 AM PST by Twotone
Come trick-or-treat season or any time you’re presented with a choice from a candy jar, selecting just one chocolate bar from the mix is about as difficult as picking a favorite child (or so I’ve heard from parents). Sweetness levels vary widely, as does the source of the chocolate, the mix-ins or fillings, the texture, and more.
To help us narrow down the competition and build a shortlist of the best bars for s’mores, snacking, and sneaking into cakes, we called up a handful of our favorite culinary pros from coast to coast for some sweet talk. Read on to discover which chocolate bar these chefs love—plus, brilliant ways to add it to your menu this week.
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The Best Chocolate Bar, According to Chefs
Just like with chocolate chip cookies, many of us have a different definition of “perfect” when it comes to chocolate bars. The chefs shared quite a diverse collection of favorites, ranging from trick-or-treat mainstays to trendy artisan chocolates. But only one drew multiple votes, earning the crown from chefs in our poll: Tony’s Chocolonely.
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Mark!
I have tried their dark and the milk. Neither stands out to me, plus, I do NOT like the random chunks style of their bar.
Though I have not seen them in stores for years now, the Greene & Black Almond was my go, whole almonds in Really good Thick chocolate- laughs a splurge both monetarily and calorically!
Of late I have been exploring dark chocolate - they are all very different!
Tatt
After breaking the rules, and reading the article laughs, I do like several of the Theo chocolate bars, but they stopped carrying them locally - Bah.
“Chocolonely?” Paying big money to feel like a lonely loser? No thanks.
Me too, primarily that it is high in anti-oxidants. There was an article posted recently here on FR that talked about a study showing dark chocolate boosts your brain power, at least for an hour after you have it.
Tony’s is just very ordinary. It gets high marks for slavishly hewing to the latest sociopolitical fashions, nothing more. It’s like those “Best Places to Retire” and similar lists: they don’t make a lick of sense until you read the fine print where it’s revealed that racial diversity and LGBTetc. is more important than crime, housing and school performance.
Put a little Amaretto in that.
I worked in downtown Hershey when the factory was still in town. Got tired of the smell quick, got tired of the chocolate too. Wilber’s chocolate from Lititz PA is light years better. But the German chocolate bars sold by Aldi are damn good and not expensive.
Twix and Reese’s PB cups should be in there somewhere. What about Babe Ruth?
Oh, yes.
I suspected this article was actually political, so many of these types of stories are just commercials to fund liberals.
A good example more locally to me is the endless praise for Spotted Cow. Bad beer promoted to fund democratic political campaigns.
Heath barTry the Heath bar Carvalanches at Carvel!
My experience also.
All of this makes my sweet tooth hurt.
Im a Ghirardelli fan also!
No Carvels around here..
They used to come two layers to a box in liftable plastic trays. I don't know if those are still around.
They came from the future! Their Delivery Man mascot has been presented as being digital or Legos
before those were even a thing:
A cosmic mystery for those with the munchies.
I hear you.
However, to me, sometimes there are little factoids inserted into the articles that, after verification, teach me something I didn't know.
Here's another example of something that I learned today.
There was a new commentary about the BBC's libelous editing of President Trump's January 6th speech that included the following fact:
It costs £174.50 a year to obtain a BBC license for a color TV. Technological atavists who are bargain-hunting can snag a license for a black and white TV for only £58.50 per year. For the year ending March 2025, the license fee raised £3.8 billion, 65 percent of the Beeb’s total income.
I did NOT know that the United Kingdom regulates the ownership of television sets. British subjects must file for a license to receive up-to-the-minute news via television. If they refuse to pay the annual license fee, they can wait for the daily newspapers, listen to the video-free radio, or go online and view websites.
But television requires and annual fee of $202.41 in today's exchange rate.
Who knew? (over here, at least)
-PJ
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