Honest Chocolate

Let’s be honest, chocolate is good, real good. And when it’s beautifully packaged and made from ethically sourced organic ingredients that are low GI there isn’t much left to want. Well except another piece.

Cape Town’s Honest Chocolate is opening up shop today in the new creative hub on Wale Street, along with Liam Mooney and a soon-to-open art gallery. Run by Anthony Gird and Michael de Klerk the handmade delights will now be sold fresh from their very own store.

And along with the opening come two new bars, a coffee and a salt bar and a new wrapper for their 72% cacao Nibs bar. The new 72% and Kalahari Desert salt bar wrapper was designed by Toby Newsome and the 72% and cracked coffee beans bar was illustrated by Marsi. Jean de Wet’s work will feature on the Ecuadorian cacao nibs bar. Each wrapper was designed to depict Honest Chocolate and the illustrator’s collaborative interpretation of the flavour. Think pirate ships, and jungle creatures staring out from the counter…

Honest chocolate always use local illustrators to dress their treats. Michael says they would like to incorporate more into their packaging in the future but at present are really chuffed with doing work that makes them happy.

What makes us happy is the range of original wrappers the chocolate is packaged in. From dainty boxes with classic décor elements to contemporary slabs with quirky illustrations. Honestly, Honest Chocolate is a delight to all the senses.

More information: www.honestchocolate.co.za, 66 Wale Street, Cape Town.