Le Chocolat des Îles
Dubai Chocolate
Le Chocolat des Îles
12-bar opening display — $84 wholesale
$14 suggested retail · 50% retailer margin · free local delivery
Made from the inside out.
Many Dubai-style bars begin with a purchased pistachio cream. Ours does not. We make our own filling in-house, so we control the ingredients, the pistachio percentage, the texture and the provenance of what goes inside.
That filling is made with 50% pistachios, pure ghee and fine strands of roasted kataifi. We then place it inside the dark chocolate we also make ourselves from the bean. We control both sides of the experience: the chocolate outside and everything inside.
The chocolate
Made by us from the bean
We spent years developing our dark chocolate: organic cacao and organic cane sugar, roasted, refined and conched in our own factory. Nothing bought in as coating, nothing arriving already made.
The chocolate
Made by us with 50% pistachios
Rather than rely on a bulk cream whose composition and provenance would be outside our control, we make the filling ourselves. Pure ghee brings richness and gentle savoury warmth; fine strands of kataifi are roasted to remain crisp inside the cream.
The bite
Three things, in this order
First
The clean crack
Then
The centre opens
Dense and creamy, made with 50% pistachios. The pure ghee adds roundness and a gentle savoury warmth, and lengthens the flavour well past the point where a sugar-led filling would have finished.
Last
The dry crunch
Roasted kataifi, still audibly crisp. The pistachio stays the point of the bar rather than merely its colour, and the finish is nutty instead of sweet.
That contrast is our interpretation of luxury: not excess for its own sake, but each element doing a distinct job.
How it is made
We make both the chocolate and the filling
We do not begin with purchased chocolate coating or ready-made pistachio cream. We make the dark chocolate from the bean, and we make the filling in-house from 50% pistachios, pure ghee and roasted kataifi.
Making both defining parts ourselves is slower and costs more. It also lets us know what is actually in the bar — and gives us control over its flavour, texture and finish from the first ingredient to the final wrapper.
Selection
Screening
Cadmium and lead tested at cooperative level, before beans are bought.
Manufacture
Chocolate and pistachio filling made under one roof in Central Islip, New York.
Chocolate
Organic cacao and organic cane sugar. No purchased coating, vegetable fat or flavouring.
Filling
Made in-house with 50% pistachios, pure ghee and roasted kataifi. No purchased bulk cream.
Distribution
Distributed exclusively to select NY metro gourmet markets, food halls and specialty cafés. Delivered weekly in shelf-ready 12-bar display shippers with keystone retailer margins.
Dubai chocolate may now be everywhere. Ours will not be.