Haigh's Chocolates Block Arcade

Visited Haigh’s Chocolates in the Block Arcade, bought some delicious treats early in the morning, and it was pleasantly quiet. 🍫 Fun fact: Haigh’s is Australia’s oldest family-owned chocolate maker, established in 1915 in Adelaide. Their chocolates are handcrafted using traditional methods, and the Block Arcade store has a charming heritage setting that makes shopping there feel special. Perfect spot for chocolate lovers!

This is The shop for chocolate lovers!!! Located in beautiful block arcade you cannot go wrong browsing the incredible variety of delicious chocolates… so many flavours, all designed to whet your appetite for the much loved chocolate Haight treat…. The new chocolate covered smoked almond was fabulous… the Smokey flavour would be perfect with a nice whiskey…

Bought some chocolates her after trying one. Lovely and creamy with a little aftertaste. Yum.

Amazing chocolates, helpful friendly staff who even give out samples! A great selection from mango, liquor chocolates and of course the standard milk and dark chocolates. Probably the best chocolate around.

What a beautiful little shop with lovely friendly staff 😍 only bought a couple of pieces as I was only passing through and didn't want to carry this around with me all day as it is VERY expensive chocolate 🍫 But wow it is lovely and delicious. I tried the strawberry and the mint chocolate frogs and they were both fantastic. Not badly priced at $2.25 each (which isn't much more than a full priced Freddo at the supermarkets but much much nicer than Cadbury. The chocolate leaves a lovely sweet Milky flavour in your mouth for ages after which leads you to savour the flavour for longer rather than just stuffing your mouth endlessly. Will definitely be back for more 😍🍫😍

World class chocolate in a great setting with wonderful warm friendly staff; Haigh’s is the best

If you like eating little treats of vegan chocolates, This is a place. I found it so lovely that one of the person who work here even gave me Menu of vegan chocolates they sell in so I could pick it up among those dark chocolates. I found that it is not sugar sweet but rather comfortably sweet which I adored. I will def come back sweethearts. I appreciate for helping ☺️✨🫶

Friendly staff helped me pick out some chocolate and gave me a sample too. Delicious! Already planning my next trip back

It was good visit. Excellent chocolates and great service. Good location but business hours do not match up with on line hours. The dark chocolate licorice was excellent. Nice layout for the store.

Beautiful shop carrying a lovely assortment of chocolates. Buy something! They offer you a sample at check out. Yum!

My complaint to Haigh's- and they didn't respond!!! Dear Consultant, We can't fathom enough the appalling customer approach experienced at the front of your Collins St store in Melbourne last week by your unprofessional belittling child like dictating off pudding staff member. How dare she speak down to my husband and I like we were small children at a birthday party! We are absolutely disgusted by this dictating child stricken attitude. Who is behind her training to behave in this terrible manner? She would have been placed on disciplinary notice under my management!!! Since when does a Haighs sales person forbid you to try a choc you are promoting in the middle of the Collins St business professionals precinct? She's not on Swanston St???? We have been decades long customers of Haighs in Hawthorn, Toorak and The Block arcade and have never ever felt so disappointed by what occurred. ... We walked past the sales girl and stopped to ask what the the chocs were she was offering to taste. She offered the honey choc to try and handed me one- completely ignored my husband. When I asked her what type of choc was in the other jar (the jar she was hiding behind her back), she replied, ... it's almond. I replied,.. 'oh if you told me it was almond, I would have chosen that one to try as I was still holding the honey choc in my hand and I had not consumed it. Her immediate response was ... NO ! NO ! NO! ONE PER PERSON!!! She was saying it loudly while people were walking past and staring, and speaking down to my husband and I in that atrocious manner was to the highest degree absolutely humiliating! But for your staff member guarding your chocs was 'serious business' but she failed to promote your chocs to 'serious purchasers'! So, I threw the choc she gave me on the ground and told her she can shove it - to which she smirked at. There you go! Great experience at the Haighs Store in Collins St! My voice is bigger than the crumbs she was protecting.

My housemate raved about a chocolate shop that was almost completely gluten free (She is one of those poor unfortunate souls who cannot eat gluten). This shop is a feast in more than one way, it pleases all the senses. From the busy swans ton street shopfront you can see an assortment of chocolates in gift packages or in traditional boxed chocolates. This is the only place i buy chocolate for gifts, they suit any occasions and the staff are genuinely interested in what the gifted chocolates are for and will offer a range of sweets to suit the occasion. The chocolates are not the cheapest you will come across (But come on we are past the age of buying your mates some chocolates from woolies) but the presentation and flavour of the sweets will make it worth you're while! Now the hardest part is giving your purchase away!!

If you are fortunate to stumble upon the Block Arcade in Melbourne make sure you stop by Haigh's Chocolates. What's not to love? Its chocolates! Haigh's came recommended to us by a local friend. Once inside the store, there are so many choices it is almost overwhelming. You'll also find yourself pretending to be indecisive when sampling the chocolates from staff, just so you can keep on sampling. The store is gorgeous, and the staff are very knowledgeable and helpful. Haigh's has a rich history, and thankfully, they are still around to this day, providing the public with some of the best chocolates in the world. Beautiful chocolates do come at a price, but it is money well spent. I bought 4 peppermint truffle bars and 200g of the Dark Connoisseur Selection. Let's just say, it didn't last two days. Thank goodness for technology, because you can order Haigh's Chocolates online, without having to fork out a plane ticket back to Melbourne.

What can be said about Haighs without me drooling on the keyboard??? For those not in the know, Haighs is a South Australian chocolate company started and still run by the Haigh family. They take great pride in their quality control and my husband and mum-in-law both say that it has changed very little from when they lived there. It is the best chocolate I have ever had in my life! Whenever I go to Sydney, Melbourne or Adelaide, I am given the duty of buying (by my South Australian born husband) "supplies" from Haighs and I usually walk out with over $100 worth of chocolate. Haighs are expensive but are worth every cent of what you pay for. The staff are always very pleasant and helpful. It is not the sort of chocolate you can gorge yourself on. It is quite rich so you do not need a lot of it to enjoy it. The only thing that disappointed me on this visit is that they ran out of my favourite choc-caramel fudge. :( It just means that I will have to go again on my next interstate visit!

I have yet to find a Haigh's I did not like; they must have an excellent training program as every staff member has been a delight even when extremely busy!!! The benefit of this store being a little out of the city at the base of the Rialto building is that it is quieter than the CBD centre store and therefore easier to browse. If course the chocolate is brilliant; though I am glad out of temptations reach since they do not currently have a WA store ;)

Haigh's Chocolate is quality chocolate, however the price is not proportionate to other quality chocolate available. This Easter was the first time I didn't give Haigh's as gifts. I love the different theme each year at Christmas, but now it's only purchased as a special treat. The fact that you now need to pay for silver foil bags for protecting your chocolate on top of chocolates was a bit much. For me Valrhona (France), Pacari Chocolate (Ecuador) and even Cadbury chocolate (Australia) provide quality chocolate.

Nice chocolate shop with lots of different than American varieties. The staff were very helpful. We stopped early on a weekday morning so the shop was not busy.

I have the dubious honour of working right across the road from the Block Arcade. Which some days is fabulous, if you need a quick gift, because who doesn't love chocolate. On other days when my will power is ZERO this is to my detriment to my existence because this place is a must stop for any chocoholic. In the case of the 3.30ies, my ram raid is complete with a dark chocolate peppermint frog. Conveniently placed on the counter, so I walk straight in, get my fix (and usually a free sample!) and get out. Other days, when I consider purchasing a gift, I take my time and lovingly stare at the freckles and dark chocolate coffee beans. Although the freckles have not been the same since they removed the artificial neon colouring. If I'm going to have a freckle full of refined sugar, GIVE ME MY ARTIFICIAL COLOURINGS! My other recommendations. Dark chocolate coffee beans. Known to get me through a work day on zero sleep. Although a "friend" may have become super, super paranoid one day when too many were consumed. That was an interesting day (apparently). Other recommends: cappuccino bars, just like a milky way. And the caramel bars. And actually everything. In peak chocolate buying times, get in early (AM) or late (PM) as the crowds are feisty and long. Actually, just go. Thank me later. And my "friend" says take it easy on the coffee beans.

Belgian chocolate? Yes please! Gluten Free Options? Ahoy! Favourite picks? Choc covered macadamias, Dark choc mint frogs, Choc covered dried orange pieces, Choc covered scorched almonds Pricey? Yeah a touch but we all deserve the occasional treat right? And the chocolate is pretty damn good Location? Central, elegant and ooh la la just a little bit posh Staff? They certainly hire some lovely folks there Come back again? Can you give me a "Hell yeah!"?

Almost every single product in Haigh's is Gluten Free (there are sometimes one or two exceptions - the staff can tell you which). For anyone who can't eat gluten, that's worth five stars alone. If you CAN eat gluten, try their dark chocolate frogs, freckles or lilly pilly chocolates (like turkish delight but with lilly pilly instead of rosewater) and you'll give it five stars anyway. Oh goodness yes. But you'll need a leprechaun, a rabbits foot and a lot of religious paraphernalia to wedge yourself in this store anywhere near Easter or within about a fortnight of Christmas.

Worse chocolate shop ever I have test before please change the test of the chocolate , it's too sweet and too much strong need to work it its need more work And people are with heigh experience and from other countries so they can do the test of the chocolate probably and every one will be happy about it .

If you like choclate then you must come here. Be prepared to umm and ahh as you try and make your mind which samples to take with you. So many to tempt you, then again, you could always come back again.

I hit up Haigh's around once a week. The chocolate is good and there is always a line of upper class old people. Love the free samples they give you with every purchase. Noms.

Definitely visit the Haigh's in the Block Arcade -- it feels almost literary in elegance. The chocolate is rich and delicious, though a little on the pricey side.

Beautiful choc, kind staff, even two free choc trail!