10 Must-Try Chocolate Desserts In London
London is a city that takes chocolate seriously, and with Valentine’s Day around the corner, there’s no better time to indulge. Whether you’re looking for a rich hot chocolate to warm up a winter evening or a dessert that feels like a special treat, we’ve rounded up some sinful options.
1. Adam Handling Chocolate Shop
Adam Handling’s Chocolate Shop is a destination in itself. Award-winning hot chocolates made from single-origin cacao (including Great Taste–winning Honduras and Nicaragua blends), alongside hand-painted chocolates in flavours ranging from classic praline to yuzu sencha and rum caramel. This is chocolate treated with the same seriousness as fine dining, and in drinkable forms, too.
Where: 17 Maiden Ln, London WC2E 7NL
Website: www.adamhandlingchocolate.co.uk
2. TOKii
TOKii’s dark chocolate fondant is one for purists: crisp shell, molten centre, paired with coconut ice cream and honeycomb. Rich, controlled, and properly indulgent — it’s a dessert that you want to savour but end up eating in a race.
where: 50 Great Cumberland Pl, Marble Arch, London W1H 7FD
website: www.tokii.co.uk
3. One Aldwych Hotel
One Aldwych leans fully into fantasy with its Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-inspired afternoon tea. Fizzy lifting drinks, chocolate milkshakes mixed under waterfalls, snozzberry jam, floss, cakes and sweets stacked high. It’s playful, theatrical, and a bit nostalgic while still remaining polished.
where: 1 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BZ
website: www.onealdwych.com
4. Boxcar Bread & Wine
At Boxcar, chocolate shows up in simpler, better ways: a beautifully laminated pain au chocolat, and a seasonal butterscotch hot chocolate built on dark chocolate, chai spice and sweetness, what a duo.
where: 30-31 Kendal St, St George’s Fields, London W2 2AW
website: www.boxcar.co.uk
5. The Lanesborough
For February only, The Lanesborough hosts a rare London appearance from Vienna’s Hotel Sacher. The original Sacher-Torte — chocolate sponge layered with apricot jam and finished with its signature glaze — is served exactly as intended, with unsweetened cream. A restrained, historic chocolate moment, best enjoyed slowly in the Withdrawing Room.
where: Park Corner, Hyde, London SW1X 7TA
website: www.oetkerhotels.com
6. Lolo
Lolo’s chocolate mousse comes enriched with boozy prunes — deep, adult, and unfussy. For Valentine’s, chocolate truffles join the menu, leaning into indulgence without excess. After dinner, if you’re up for it, try the HOT chocolate, a cocktail made of Sailor Jerry, Mozart chocolate, and chilli-infused honey.
where: 102 Bermondsey St, London SE1 3UB
website: www.josepizarro.com
7.TH@51
TH@51’s Chocolate Surprise is comfort dressed up properly: rich, elegant, finished with salted caramel ice cream. No tricks — just depth and balance and a bit of romantics.
where: Suites and Residences, Taj 51, 51 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6AF
website: www.stjamescourthotel.co.uk
8. The Garden at Corinthia London
Chocolate fondant, signature hot chocolate, pillowy kaiserschmarrn and warming Bombardino — The Garden is all about winter comfort. Chocolate as something to chat over, ideally mid-afternoon, when there’s not much else you need to be doing.
where: 10a Northumberland Ave, London SW1A 2BD
website: www.corinthia.com
9. InterContinental London Park Lane
Valentine’s Sunday brunch ends where it should: at the Valrhona chocolate fountain. After oysters, beef Wellington and eggs your way, the chocolate flows freely (as it should), a smooth, rich fountain that you dreamed of as a kid.
where: One Hamilton Place, Park Ln, London W1J 7QY
website: www.parklane.intercontinental.com
10. The Athenaeum Hotel
The Athenaeum Hotel is keeping Valentine’s dessert firmly in show-stopper territory. The Chocolate Rose pairs a delicate lychee sphere with hot dark chocolate poured tableside — theatrical, fragrant, and unapologetically romantic. Available on the Valentine’s menu 13–14 February.
where: 116 Piccadilly, London W1J 7BJ
website: www.athenaeumhotel.com
