i Love Panama Chocolate — Restaurant in San Felipe

I Love Panama Chocolate!!! Do not miss out on this one of a kind experience. The staff were extremely knowledgeable, they were so friendly, funny, and kind. We started in the expedition room, here we watched a short video, and compared the video with its corresponding "all chocolate" statue on the table. The only rule was do not touch and do not taste the statues 😔. (Now that was hard) Next it was time for story and taste, we were given the history behind each choloate, and then given a sample of each one, it was delicious😋. Lastly was the buying process, the chocolate is resonably priced, and there was definalty something for everyone. I would not miss out on this place, just put it in your gps and pay them a visit. 10/10...

It was a wonderful place with Jessica telling us about the wild cacao from Bocas del Toro and the process of the creation of a chocolate bar with the "liquor" of chocolate (that becomes the chocolate butter and part of the base of a chocolate bar). It was fascinating. Jessica broke open the cacao pod with the cacao beans inside and sampled a cacao bean still in its gelatinous coating (which was sour). We broke open the bean after it had been dried. The tiny bits of cacao inside were just as good (if not better) than the processed result. We liked the 70% chocolate that is made of only cacao, cacao butter, sugar...

Loved our experience here the staff were all so lovely but we have to say the service we had from Oriel was some of the best customer service we have had in all of Central America. He was so enthusiastic and very knowledgeable in his chocolate facts, but we just loved the energy he brought to the experience. We ended up buying the grape chocolate bar and not to be over dramatic but it was quite literally the BEST chocolate I have ever eaten I cannot recommend it enough. Also don’t forget to check out the chocolate sculptures they are very impressive. This little shop ended up being the highlight...