Our (Short) Chocolate Trail at Stratford

Chocolate Barr's in Stratford

We went to two of the three chocolate shops in Stratford before catching a show. Yes, this small city has three chocolate shops! We didn’t have much time but it would have been great to go on the entire Stratford Chocolate Trail featuring 25 restaurants and shops that offer a range of cacao-based goodies. They do love their chocolate! We checked out Rhéo Thompson and Chocolate Barr’s. The third chocolate store was Rocky Mountain, which we can access closer to the GTA, so we no longer went here.

Rhéo Thompson bars and Dark Chocolate Mint Smoothies

At  Rhéo Thompson, I got some  Dark Chocolate Rhéo bars as well as Dark Chocolate Mint Smoothies. Twice the price at the theatre concession stand, these are melt-in-your mouth goodies that are hard to resist. The dark chocolate for both the bar and smoothies were not bitter and were very smooth.

Chocolate Minties and truffles from Chocolate Barr's

At Chocolate Barr’s, we got some fruit jellies (just because) and more mint goodies!! The fam LOVES mint chocolate. We got milk chocolate covered minties and an assortment of truffles—strawberry cream, chocolate covered cherries and coffee cream. So divine. Because we like milk chocolate more than dark, we really enjoyed their mint chocolate. Every bite was savoured and enjoyed as much as the Mint Smoothies we had from London. While each bite was heavenly, it was also a reminder that we were almost running out. I wonder when we can go back?!

According to their tourism site, at Stratford: "come for the chocolate, stay for the plays.” It truly is a destination for chocoholics.