creo chocolate — Local services in Portland

Chocolate is lovely. But be careful when they encourage you to order "samples", their verbiage not mine. One might assume samples are free. The ones on the tray are free but the rest are charged individually at $3.50 apiece and the employees are misleading about it, unsure if it's intentional or not but it wasn't super clear to us, especially when it was encouraged, "we have samples for days". We entered the store with the intent of buying chocolate, and did, and are excited by our purchase, but it was a bit of a put-off at checkout (fortunately we only had two samples). They also informed us their chocolate has a shelf-life of 90 days, maybe so from a healthy perspective but skeptical of any place that would advertise their truffles will taste good and not stale...

Strolling by and stopped in thankfully! I love a good chocolate and these will not disappoint! Had a sample of the Black Lava Salt Caramel. It was such a buttery smooth caramel and the salt finish is always something that I enjoy. The Spicy Mango Chocolate was another great, interesting flavor as you got a taste of the chili at first, then the mango comes into play with a slight touch of heat at the end. Delicious! Tobias helped us out and was very friendly, knowledgeable and made great suggestions. We got a mix of bars, bags and an assorted box -...

Their chocolate is amazing. We bought both their flavored truffles and chocolate bars.

They have so many interesting flavors to choose from that if you're indecisive, you'll spend a lot of time.

We got both the Vietnamese coffee and orange truffle and both were so delicious we'll have to be back for more. We saw they also have some vegan truffles and those flavors looked interesting.

The chocolate bar is where you can taste the quality. We sampled a few types before buying and went with the 65% one (tasted super smooth and...