My new favourite chocolate
Based firmly in Yorkshire, Bettys of Harrogate have five Café Tea Rooms, all serving a menu celebrating the best of Swiss-Yorkshire cooking. Perhaps I should explain that Bettys wasn’t started by Betty at all, but a Swiss chap named Fredrick Belmont, which goes someway to explaining why they make such good chocolate.
To celebrate their 90th anniversary, Bettys has produced some sublime bars produced from Venezuelan Criollo beans. Criolla beans make up less than 2% of the world’s cocoa harvest and have more delicate flavours than their Forastero and Trinitario cousins, which is reflected in these bars.
They are a snip at £2.80 and can be ordered here.
In whose dictionary is £2.80 for a bar of chocolate defined as “a snip”? (Apart from yours, Ben.)
A bar of Cadbury’s Fruit & Nut for 45p. Now that’s a snip!
“Deliciously smooth chocolate made with fruit and nuts and other stuff. Definitely contains a percentage of chocolate. Mass-moulded in our big factory”