L’Artisan du Chocolat is one of the best chocolatiers in London, England. They produce truffles, chocolate bars, and a lot of other chocolate products. They have recently started their own chocolate manufacturing from cacao beans. During my last visit to London I found time to visit them and to try some of their products. And they were delicious! Among the best I have ever tried. You will find them in Chelsea at 89 Lower Sloane street, London SW1 W8DA.
Here we present photos of two single plantation chocolate bars from L’Artisan du Chocolat: Semana peninsula (which is rich and spicy, very long withnotes of liquorice and tobacco) and Carupano (Smooth with notes of roasted nuts and coffee), both containing 70% cocoa solids [Photo: Hal].
Editor’s Rating:
Type: Bittersweet premium chocolate bars.
Flavor: 
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Hershey’s is one of the well-known manufacturers of chocolate in the USA. The company produces a number of chocolate candies, sugar confectioneries, and other types of snacks.
Hershey’s Milk Chocolate is a very popular chocolate in the USA. It contains 33% fat and 53% sugar. This chocolate tastes different from the average European milk chocolate; it tastes almost like a mixture of chocolate and Dulce de leche or Brunost. It is good that milk chocolates are different and that different people may have different preferences! I like the diversities in tastes and flavors.
Editor’s Rating:
Type: Sweet mass-produced milk chocolate bar.
Flavor: 
Hershey’s Special Dark chocolate contains 30% fat and 51% sugar. It contains some milk, milk fat and artificial flavor. However, the flavor is nice.
[Photos of chocolate bars: Hal]
Editor’s Rating: 5/10
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Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory is a good quality chocolate manufacturer located in Durango, Colorado, USA. The company produces chocolate bars, boxed chocolate selections, and non-chocolate sweets.
Their Gourmet Milk Chocolate Bar is one of the best milk chocolates I have ever tasted in the USA! It contains 30% fat and 56% sugar and is thus very sweet [Photo of chocolate wrap: Hal].
Editor’s Rating:
Type: Premium milk chocolate
Flavor:
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During a visit to the Russian community in Barentsburg (Svalbard) I was able to purchase a couple of russian dark chocolates. The chocolate bars had been stored in the basement of the old hotel, so the flavor had been affected by the presence of mold in the storage room. Therefore I am not able to give a thorough description of how the flavor should have been if stored properly.
“Rossijskij Shokolad” is a dark chocolate containing 35.3 % fat and 50.4% carbohydrates, and is thus a sweet dark chocolate. The flavor is similar to the average sweet European or North American dark chocolate containing around 40-50% cocoa solids.
“Osennij Bals Poristij Shokolad” is a porous sweet dark chocolate containing 34.9% fat and 34.9% carbohydrates. 
The porosity makes the chocolate melt more easily in the mouth, and thus increasing the flavor intensity. The flavor is like an average North American or European sweet dark chocolate.
Both these chocolates are made by Rot Front in Moscow, Russia.
[Photos of chocolate wraps: Hal]
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