Delysia Chocolatier — Restaurant in Cedar Park

Delysia is an experience brand, not a candy store. Candy you can get anywhere. If your taste has matured beyond Walmart chocolate covered cherries and the hunks of peanut brittle sold behind fingerprint smeared glass at the mall, it's time to put a visit to Delysia on the calendar. Nichole, Chef Owner & Chocolatier, invites you to come to the shop and be treated to a complimentary fine chocolate tasting. Her staff will take you back to the kitchen and bring you a sample of the best they have available. Not a tiny scrape on a spoon or dried scrap pierced with a toothpick. No! A white china sample tray with three pieces of their best product, just for you and only for you, at no charge to you. My wife and I stood in that kitchen, literally feeling like Charlie in the amazing eponymous factory, tasting the finest chocolate in the country. There's a TV movie from the UK called "Poirot: Theft of the royal ruby" in which the main character buys a kilo of chocolate from a Belgian chocolate shop. The shop owner places one piece on a plate, and Poirot first tastes and then delights in the treat with an expression of pure pleasure. I have always wanted to experience that. Even though I know it was only play acting, by golly I have always wanted to experience something like that. And at Delysia I FINALLY got the chance. I was there and it happened and I bought three very nicely decorated boxes of the best chocolate ever. My wife and I sit close on the couch, pour a glass of wine, and share our treats from Delysia together. I apologize to you, the reader of this review, for how corny this is going to sound: Delysia chocolates have raised the bar of romance for us. The whole experience from visiting the shop, picking out our treats, the packaging, the delightful presentation, the texture and especially the flavor. Oh, you haven't experienced anything like this. But I...

These were, without exaggeration, the worst bonbons I’ve had anywhere. I have a chocolate blog and am an international chocolate judge, so I have tried chocolates from thousands of chocolate makers and chocolatiers around the world. These bonbons had multiple major flaws including: not being filled completely, which makes them susceptible to mold (and the first one I bit into was molded inside), shells were super thick, some of them having shells that took up almost half of the bonbon, huge bubbles on the outside, which took away from the pretty transfer sheets, and some bonbons had started to bloom. I was so excited to try this place when I read she had won Chocolatier of the Year. But this is not award-winning chocolate by any means. I bought multiple boxes because I was so excited to try this place. I couldn’t understand why they were all so bad until I dug deeper because I was so disappointed. There are over a dozen reviews on Glassdoor spanning different job functions and over many years saying that she doesn’t properly train employees and yet expects their work to be perfect right away. I make bonbons at home for fun and worked at a bakery that made bonbons and truffles. It is definitely not a skill that you learn over a day or two. So I understand that the bonbons I bought are from a poorly-trained employee, but this is no way to keep up the good name of a business or its owner. These are not cheap chocolates, and you should get great quality at prices like these. But the quality is just not...

Simply put - Delysia Chocolatier delivers - the best chocolates, truffles and bark you have ever tasted and true professionalism hard to find in many retail businesses.

I recently had the opportunity to attend the Delysia open house being met with a glass of sparkling wine, over sized photos of the owner and her family and a table full of chocolates to sample. First we tried some of the amazing truffles filled with exciting flavors and decorated to pure beauty. The truffles come in 'collection' such as Asian, Coffee, Salted, Latin, Tea, Valentine's and on and on.

Along with the table of exquisite truffles were some large pieces of chocolate 'bark', delicious chunks of milk and dark chocolates flavored with spices, nuts, peanut butter and combinations thereof (can you say "s'more"?). My favorite, hands down, was the Ghost Pepper Bark, not always available and not for the faint of heart!

Nicole Patel, the creator and chief chocolatier at Delysia, has left nothing to chance - her kitchen is impeccable, her decor stunning and her chocolates simply the best you may ever...