If you love chocolate as much as we do, you’re in the right place

Christmas is near, and what’s Christmas without excessive eating, hangovers and the headache of gift-giving? But you know what they say: the way to someone’s heart is through the stomach, and if anything, chocolate will always be a guaranteed people-pleaser.

Head to The Dark Gallery, a two-year-old chocolate specialist that sources its cacao from around the world, like Malaysia, Madagascar and Venezuela. Founded in 2017 by a 37-year-old Li Lihui, whose aim is to make chocolate accessible and better appreciated, the cafe / store has successfully manipulated the different variations of single origin chocolate into edible fairy tales. Take a bite and explore the chocolate’s acidity, bitterness and intensity.

The breadth of selections is overwhelming and so good, you will need to go in with a game plan. From colourful bonbons and intensely dark chocolate ice cream cake, to everything in between, it’s got it all. And hey, even if you were doing this as a last-minute gift idea, you know you’d be getting someone the antidote to all that is wrong with the world.