Banff’s Mountain Chocolates — Local services in Banff

How can they call this chocolate?! And for the people who think this is good chocolate, do yourself a favour and try some Belgium Chocolate. After a horseback ride in Banff we were hungry and tired and we decided to have some chocolate. It looked good, it was hot, we were hungry so we bought $30 worth of chocolate. We had some on the spot but because it was hot and it was melting we thought it will taste better after it sits in the fridge for a bit. So the next day when we tried some again, the chocolate had white spots similar to the ones you get on a chocolate thats's old or out of date, but since we just bought it in they said its made in the house daily we thought its fresh. It was disgusting!! It tastes like margarine with a bit of cocoa in it! Everything tasted like it was mixed with something else to make more of and save money. The marzipan was bland and chewy and the nuts were stale. Don't give in to temptation or ask for a sample first. That should stop you...

There are loves and hates here. The fudge is pricey but decent flavor. It's quick which is nice, you can't sample or so we were told. You don't get to choose a smaller or larger brick size. It's only one size. We each picked a separate flavor which all five flavors were thrown into one bag not labeled. Couldn't tell the difference flavor wise between three of them. Boo. At least have a sticker stating the German chocolate, the classic, the almond, the orange etc. The positives. The guy making the fudge was friendly. But flirtatious. The last time we came here, we got fudge from the whole park. One from nearly every store that offered, this place was the only one that after a week was not hard. It was still soft and creamy. So the potential to be the best was there, just some management that needs to be done with...

I spent $24 on a bag of caramel corn, fudge, "myrtle" (caramel, chocolate, peanuts), and chocolate covered orange bits. The caramel corn didn't have any of the salt in the sweet+salty combo that normally makes it good, and instantly globbed onto our teeth so badly we couldn't eat it and thew the whole bag out. All their chocolate tasted like sickeningly sweet wax or something - it's awful. My wife didn't mind the orange peel bits (perhaps the bitterness balanced the sweet?). I pushed through the "myrtle" despite the chocolate - but would take a boxed Walmart off brand "turtle" 10x over it. The fudge was also sickeningly sweet like the chocolate, plus rock hard (I had to cut it with a knife), and got thrown away. I'm sure this place is only in business because of a steady stream of tourists who...