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O'Conaill's Chocolate Shop
Categories: Food Specialty Food Chocolatiers and Shops Food Coffee & Tea Chocolatiers and Shops, Coffee & Tea [Edit]
16 French Church StCork
(021) 4373407
- Price Range:
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€€
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
7 reviews for O'Conaill's Chocolate Shop
7 reviews in English
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Review from Dave H.
Like Jaws II, O'Connaill's is back and this time it's bigger. Unlike Jaws II, O'Connaill's is actually good.
I was freaked out on a recent trip home to see my favourite chocolate shop closed up and the interior gutted. It wasn't dead though, just waiting to be resurrected. They've expanded into the unit next door, and now it's a far nicer place to sit and sip your hot chocolate or pick up some sugar-filled nibbles.
The main change is an increase in seating, and the splitting of the store in chocolate and coffee sections.Hopefully this will mean service will get quicker, especially when the Christmas rush kicks in and those chocolates start jumping off the shelves.
As for a recommendation, if you can handle the sugar, get a milk and white. If you want something a bit different, the dark praline is a real treat. -
Review from Denis C.
Cork
26/5/2010
Oooooh sweet divine me!!!!
Sorry to Butlers establishments, but I must say, O'Conaill's is by far where you will get the best hot chocolate ever!
They have a small store in Cork city and are also on the Midleton market on Sundays.
After tasting their home-made hot chocolate, you'll understand why there is such a queue at the hot chocolate counter!
My recommendation: ask for a white and milk hot chocolate and put marshmallows... yuuuuuum!!!!!!
Moreover, all chocolates are locally made in Cork, perfect example of a successful (and delicious) local business. -
Review from Evin B.
Cork
15/8/2011
Helpful staff, mouth-watering array of chocolates and fudge, hot beverage options to warm a winter's day or chilly summer's eve. The best hot chocolate I've ever had! When we asked if we could take a photo of the staffer who made it behind the counter they happily obliged. Will go back again and again. Their chocolate is made locally (though not physically in the shop) so it's authentic, local, high quality, and delicious. It's the kind of chocolate shop you imagine going to when choosing an edible gift. They even have chocolate bars and treats with Cork on the label as well as ones modeled after St. Ann's Shandon Bell tower and Goldie (the fish).
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Review from Bing A.
Cork
26/4/2011
I have always looked on Butlers coffee as being the best hot chocolate around, however, as I live in Dublin I didn't realise there was a REAL hot chocolate shop on our shores. O'Conaill's "Classic" hot chocolate is absolutely gorgeous. Rich and flavoursome, served with a small cup of mini divine chocolates. I'm afraid Butlers in Cork has lost me forever to the Grand Daddy of all hot chocolate shops!
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Review from Grainne M.
20/4/2010 1 photo
Every time I head home to Cork I make a beeline for O'Conaill's. It's a small shop on French Church Street-the narrow street and narrow shop combine to give it a definite old fashioned charm. Walking in the door you are greeted by a wall of shelves on the left full of chocolate and a large glass cabinet full of fudge (which to choose?) and individual chocolates on the right. All of the products are locally made in Cork and all are yummy!
Top picks include their chocolate drops/chips-bags of 70% cocoa dark ones or milk...or, my favourite, the bag of mixed dark, milk and white. Delicious. They sell their own drinking chocolate too and enormous bars of dark chocolate to bake with. I have had many happy hours nibbling on their chocolate covered espresso beans and adore their dark chocolate covered ginger. I did once write to them requesting that they make some chocolate covered ginger and saw it in the shop soon after. I like to think it was thanks to me, but it's probably more likely to be great minds thinking alike!
If you have some time, definitely sit down and have a mug of hot chocolate. They have a MENU of different types, all lovely.
They don't really do café food, apart from a few chocolate biscuit cakes and biscuits. But, to be fair, there's plenty of chocolate to be eaten. Service is variable-sometimes great, sometimes slow. It's often unclear which counter (fudge or drinks) is the best to stand at. They get to you eventually.
Minor issues aside, I will be popping in again when I'm back home. My chocolate chip stash is dwindling and needs to be replenished. And ginger is good for you I'm sure, especially when coated in antioxidant rich dark chocolate. That's my excuse anyway! -
Review from Sonya B.
16/6/2010
O'Conaill Chocolatiers have won my heart (and the hearts of those with whom I have shared any of my chocolate bars). I have enjoyed the 34% (milk), 60%, and 70%. Each offers the complex flavors and smooth texture a chocolate connoisseur demands. I believe it to be not only the best chocolate made in Ireland now, but some of the best I have ever savored.
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Review from Mags C.
Cork
27/10/2010
€2 Americano. And a few "dots" of chocolate on the side. I like it here. The coffee is good and there's just enough life happening outside the window to help you daydream a wet afternoon away.
