Piety and Desire Chocolate | New Orleans

As a chocolatier, I enjoy visiting other chocolate-centric establishments when I travel and this one is not to miss. They’re drinking chocolate is as good as the one I had in St. Marks square in Venice, Italy and the atmosphere is comfortable and grand with its high ceilings and sage green counter service. Not to miss if you’re headed to Nola for the incredible food there.

Yum 😋 beautifully designed delicious chocolate! Good coffee! What a wonderful place to treat yourself to a fabulous treat. I selected a Bon 6 piece box to try a variety of tastes. The saffron and lemon basil were my favorites. The Peru chocolate bar tasty too.

Real, high-quality chocolate in New Orleans! The shop is beautiful, the staff are incredibly friendly, and the chocolate is simply delicious. Thank you for such a lovely experience!

The drinking chocolate was amazing !! Full coffee bar as well. Bon bons and chocolate bars, which were fabulous. A bit overpriced but I guess that’s what you pay on magazine at in Nola. Immaculate service, and you can taste all the chocolates before buying ! They also have the famous Dubai chocolate bar Update: after response and specific price list of other chocolatiers from the owner, lol, I should clarify and say that $60 for chocolate and coffee was overpriced for ME. Also I’m removing a star bc I feel such a response like this could potentially lead other reviewers to only leave positive reviews and not their honest opinion of the establishment/business

Amazing chocolate shop and cafe! The drinking chocolate was soooo rich and delicious. You can also pick your own chocolate truffles and make your own variety box. A must visit!

Very friendly staff, first time trying an affogato and was pleasantly surprised to be offered strawberry ice cream. Seating area is very comfortable, great escape from the busy area.

Definitely a true gem! The best chocolate drink we’ve ever had. And the atmosphere was just amazing. Would recommend 200%!

Perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Needed a little pick me up and this place was amazing. Coffee was as good as it looks. The chocolate was amazing as well. Highly recommend!

Best bean-to-bar chocolate maker in the USA, right here in uptown New Orleans! Very thoughtful care in the selection of ingredients, and impressive mastery in extracting delicious taste from high-percentage cacao bars. In the hands of "not yet" accomplished chocolate makers, high-percentage cacao bars are too acidic or bitter no matter how pretty their branding/packaging. But that never happens here. Piety's bars are all great (I've bought most of them and my favorite is Dak Nong) with distinctive packaging. Great ingredients like unrefined Louisiana cane sugar (no beet sugar), top tier cacao beans, the best milk powder for the white chocolate, etc. How do you know if a chocolate maker is a *real* Willy Wonka? They use only cacao beans, sugar, and cocoa butter to create something sublime. No vanilla to cover up harsh flavors of lower quality dark chocolate. No lecithin for industrial style processing. Christoper Nobles (Piety and Desire) is one of the very, very few in the world that qualifies. And there's more! The bonbons are stunning works of art for gifting, authentic european-style hot chocolate is on tap, and they sell unique creations like cajun drinking chocolate and matcha drinking chocolate. Service is exceptional too.

Chocolate is a world wide. Sweet that began here in America before Columbus and will hold the world's attention until the end of time.

The prettiest chocolates in New Orleans. And so yummy. They're $2.50 a piece unless you get a box too. Some of the flavors are really unique and then you have the more basic offerings. They have coffee and of course, drinking chocolate . The iced mocha was super chocolatey and they offer oat milk as their vegan option. Will definitely be back to try their other chocolate offerings.

We received our first box of bon bons from Piety & Desire- gorgeous and delectable! The shipment came in perfect condition all the way to California. We've had chocolate from around the world, where chocolate is considered a gourmet commodity, Piety & Desire IS world class! Thank you to Mr. Christopher Nobles for his artistic culinary skill & customer relations. We'll look forward to ordering more in the coming year. William & Geralyn LLoyd

Really cool little place and the chocolates are so unique and delicious BUT really expensive. For the 6 chocolates with a small tip was almost $20. But it is also art so that's how I justified it

High quality, decadent chocolate! I have a sweet tooth and love all forms of sugar and this chocolate was delicious! A little pricey but it seems like elite ingredients and careful creation. I had two bon bons and the dark chocolate covered bacon. The bon bons were better and really next level. It's a super cool looking and feeling, elegant cafe, a little like stepping back in time a little bit. I would try the hot chocolate but I'm nervous after Paris that anything in the US wouldn't live up to my expectation of drinking a melted chocolate bar. Their chocolate was so good though that I might try it next time. Very nice and knowledgeable service.

Love this spot! The best chocolatier in America, lives up to the hype. Tell 'em large Marge sent ya!

VERY HARD TO FIND THE ENTRANCE 1. Atmosphere: there's no hanging sign, the name of the business is behind a shrub, and even the address is painted the same color as the door (See pics). 2. Chocolates: are beautiful, $2.50 each, but substantially higher if packaged. It's a large selection, about 20 varieties with adequately descriptive captions (so you and others won't hold up the queue). PROTIP: it helps to remember the address number, "2032". Even so, I still needed to interpolate. Locally owned and operated.

This is a great little chocolate shop with legit chocolate bars and truffles. I really splurged and spent over $100 on chocolates, chocolate bars and gifts for others. If you are a lover of chocolate truffles, this is a great little shop to come to. They have some very unique and unusual combinations, many of which I've never seen offered anywhere else. One of my favorites would have to be the apple caramel and the "strawbrie" which is strawberries and brie and very sublime and yummy. I really enjoy their chocolate bars but I love dark chocolate, and the darker the better in my book! I had previously purchased one of their 100% bars and thoroughly enjoyed every luscious, deep chocolate bite! Definitely a "must" go to when in town!

Randomly found this place while walking around garden district. We stopped by for a coffee and some chocolates. We ordered one coffee to share which were good and two truffles. I believe one was a white chocolate lemon basil which was amazing and the other truffle was brandy milk punch which was just meh. I do know they have certain truffles they make often and others are new. Both were not on their usual menu at the time. Truffles are on the pricier side, I believe $4-$5 a truffle, but they are made in store which is really awesome. The place is quiet and clean. Decor is very comfy. I would stop by again. The staff was also very friendly and informative.

This was a lovely experience. Hadn't been to an actual chocolatier in ages. The variety was nice so I had a small three piece tasting and a hot cocoa. Would go again for such melt in your mouth exquisiteness.

I do not care if the chocolate is good or not, the staff is infuriatingly rude, aloof and has their heads buried in their phones. My cousin went to buy chocolate for her son there recently and the young woman behind the counter snapped at her and her son when they pointed to a chocolate and, wait for it, touched the glass of the display case "Don't touch the glass!" Learn how to communicate to your guests or you will lose all business, you can buy chocolate anywhere with less attitude.

Awesome chocolates and coffee! The service is excellent and the ambience lovely! Also some excellent gelatos!

The service was great and the chocolate was great and I liked the furniture. Overall my personal favorite chocolate was the sea salt caramel heart, but the king cake one was beautifully decorated. The employees were very kind to us and told us what was in the chocolate. The building was very well furnished and the chairs and couches were very comfortable. There could have been a little more things to pick from but it was still amazing. I loved this chocolate shop and recommend to families and think it is truly worthy of the title of "Best Chocolate in the Country".

The environment of this place felt so historic. The worker here are so sweet and lets not forget about the chocolate.... It's stunning. We wanted to buy one of each because of how beautiful and delicious they all looked! Definitely be back here to try more flavors!

P&D is in their new location on Magazine Street, next door to Bella Umbrella (and parasol shop). They were setting up the shop on our recent visit. There's a 40' bar that I believe does or will serve beverages on the left when you enter, with a counter and display case with beautiful chocolates at the end. Looks like they'll have a few cafe tables across from the bar with a seating area in the back next to a restored 1914 peanut roaster, which they will use to roast cocoa beans. They still have a lot of work to do, but the space should be very nice when they're done. We bought a box of chocolates that are beautiful. Wife had one that she said was interesting. Will update later as we have more. So much potential, which is very exciting! Will be fun to return when they're fully set up and have the roaster working. I don't believe I've smelled roasting cocoa beans before, but if they smell nice then it will be quite an experience; one they can share with the neighborhood if they fire up the three foot fan over the front door!

Pandemic update: For much of this 2020 insanity, Piety has been offering curbside pickup at their shop on Broad. No going inside but ordering online and giving them an actual phone call to let them know you've arrived. Their bonbons have gotten me through. Fast forward to December when they started doing a popup next to the St. James on Prytania. So while all the commercials were recommending that I give myself the gift of a new car, I instead gave myself the gift of delicious chocolate! So a box of bonbons and some of their yummy peppermint bark... oh and a cup of their hot chocolate which was like mainlining cocoa, yknow in a good way. The popup was outside. Everyone was masked. It all went very smoothly. And I had chocolate to soothe my jangled nerves. Eleventy-billion stars.

It embodies a historic and unblemished look inside and out. The rustic look, homey feel and moderate pace of Piety & Desire allows people to just chill with their coffee drink, savor some chocolates and strike up a convo at the dining room table. Plenty of comfortable plush seats. Oh you want to know about the chocolate case, chocolate bars, chocolate whatever? C'mon now. it's the best. The artistic wizardry of the chocolatier makes me want to check if they are using psychedelic mushrooms. Interpret this as, the chocolates isn't your common chocolate or Hershey bar.

Their candy is more than "just candy" - it's an experience to be savored slowly. There are no other confections as good as these. Truly the Gold standard!

Love this place. The chocolate is among the best I've ever had and the place is super cozy.

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Decadent chocolatier. Tucked next to a cidery and distillery is a cozy artisan chocolate boutique. Don't miss it! The chocolates are sculpted into delicious masterpieces. The decadent bon bons are infused with spices and liquor from the neighboring distillery and cidery. Of the dozen or so eclectic flavors, the Malted Apple Cider Caramel was hands down my favorite with an impeccable blend of apple cider and caramel, followed by the Earl Grey and Pink Peppercorn bon bon. The fiery Habanero bon bon sizzled my taste buds, my mouth was on fire! The other flavors were a bit more subtle: Blueberry Goat Cheese, Sazerac, Hemingway Daiqiuri, Brown Butter Bourbon. I highly recommend eating the bon bons within a couple of weeks. They were too beautiful to eat, and sadly waited 4 months. Although they were still good, I feel that the flavors weren't as potent. The cacao is so rich and delightfully bitter, I enjoyed a bar of dark chocolate from Peru (72%) and Tanzania (70%). I also bought some dark chocolate cocoa bean nibbles. The best part of the experience was the warm and friendly chocolatier. He let us sample a variety of chocolate from different regions and educated us on different types - didn't realize that true dark chocolate doesn't have milk. I was dazzled by the chocolates, one of the best chocolatier shops in the nation. After buying a box of bon bons, 2 bars of dark chocolate, and cacao nibbles, I'm all set until my next visit to NOLA. Off the beaten path from Bourbon street and well worth a visit!

One of the best places to get unique, delicious chocolate!! The owners are wonderful and a pleasure to chat with when going into the store. The chocolate is amazing and worth the drive and parking madness on magazine st!

Not a huge selection. I had trouble even getting enough chocolate for my Mom. It was all a lot of fancy stuff. I needed some simple chocolate.

Cute and quaint little shop hiding on magazine street, employees were so friendly, I stumbled upon them during my travels around the garden district And bought a small box of six beautiful and delicious chocolates it's a great stop if you enjoy higher end chocolate and or treats or just good conversation

First off, this spot is beautiful. Open layout with tall ceilings. For someone who is claustrophobic, this is big points. There's places to be on your computer or sit and chat with friends. We popped in for a quick pick me up and we so pleasantly surprised. Everyone there was so kind and welcoming. Very accommodating to all of our questions. We sat at the bar and got the drinking chocolate over ice cream and it was delicious. We also got a couple chocolates to go that were gorgeous! All hand painted and looked like jewelry. They had really unique flavors - one had sourdough ganache, another had balsamic. All very so pretty and tasty. 11 out of 10 experience, will definitely be returning!

Delicious chocolates and incredibly unique flavors. When we came in other customers were raving about the affogatos - will be back to try!

We were leaving Roulaison Distillery when Andrew mentioned something about a chocolatier right next door, and before I knew it I was at Piety and Desire Chocolate. It's next to a distillery and brewery, which is perfect! The shop is really small, but their case is packed with the most beautiful little handmade bon bons you ever did see in your life. They come in interesting shapes like tombs and dragon's eggs and they even have shiny little king cake chocolates, that are just adorable. I decided to get a couple of the cute little king cakes and I couldn't wait- I snarfed one down in the car. This particular chocolate had a gooey filling and I felt quite fancy eating a gourmet chocolate on this rainy afternoon. You can buy the chocolate individually or by the box and you can mix and match whichever ones you please. They also have real king cake, but the owner told us to call ahead and make sure that they have it because it's only on certain days. If you're looking for a fancy gift, especially something with a New Orleans flair and a touch of uniqueness, this is an excellent place to start.

The best chocolate and the best people! Hard to believe I haven't written a review for Piety & Desire yet because they're one of my favorite locals here. Their bon bons are like art: each one's as beautiful as a jewel and the flavors are always layered and unique. A few of my favorites: Duck Blind, which is duck fat caramel with 5-spice ganache (drool), Sazerac (I mean how can you go wrong?), and When Life Gives You Lemon Basil (which has white chocolate, something I don't usually like but the way they use it is just wow). There's always something new and inventive to choose from. I'm pretty addicted to their chocolate bars too--love the dark chocolate versions and then they make this dark *milk* chocolate combo which shouldn't even be possible but somehow they've figured it out and OH MAN. And did I mention the drinking chocolate?! This was on tap last winter at their pop-up at St. James Cheese, and now they make it in a jar so you can have this absolutely delectable substance at home, too. P&D is my go-to for presents (including presents for me, of course) and while I'll always be glad to swing by for pickup in Mid-City, I'm super excited about their new retail place that's about to open in the LGD. This place is one of the things that makes this city great! Go get you some!

I came into your shop the night before Valentine's day hoping to buy a special gift for a very special lady. I've been to Broad Cider a number of times and generally knew y'all were nearby, but walked the block once before I found the door. As I finally figured it out and approached your storefront, a rather rude badger-tempered woman cut me off in tow with her aberrant spawn. No worries, I thought, as I even held the second door for her and took a deep, calming breath.   As I entered your store, my heart skipped a beat when I saw the confections had been picked over and the stock was near bare. No fault of your own though, it's Valentine's day and this should have dawned on me earlier. As I waited for the succubus ahead of me to go back and forth with your patient staff, I saw a fine 12-box assortment that would be perfect for my snooky-wookie-boo-boo.  I had my order on the tip of my tongue and was all too eager to trade chocolate for cash and get a move on.  But no. The troglodyte in front of me wanted more...more...more! With every passing second my dread grew more palpable as she proceeded to buy the last two remaining 12-piece boxes with absolutely no concern for common decency or concern for the poor customer behind her.   Her whole cherade at this point, I think, was noticed by your staff, who, while she proceeded to ooh and aww, took pity on me and asked for my order.   Knowing the answer well before I asked, I inquired if there were any 12-piece boxes left. Also knowingly, your staff responded saying that the last two boxes had been purchased by the customer ahead of me, who be it know, was still wrangling her beast of a child and fumbling around with God knows what instead of simply paying for her order and decending back into the firey pit in which she came.  Then unexpectedly, like a beacon of pure light and hope that burned through the fog of dispair and horror, your staff member offered to break up a 24-box assortment into the one thing, the only thing, that I had my heart set on. A 12-piece set. For me? Is this real life? Is there really a God in heaven looking down on me? I quickly concluded that this couldn't be the case because Donald Trump is still president, but I was incredibly touched by your staff's kindness and generosity and for a moment, I believed in world peace. And there you have it. The woman in front of me never acknowledged my presence or her total disregard for common courtesy, but your staff made my night, my darling bae-bae-kitty-boo will be absolutely delighted with her scrumptious confections, and I'll always hold your shop in the highest regards for customer service. Thanks for making my night and kudos to your incredible team.

Their chocolate is amazing! Perfect confections! Service is great. Cannot recommend this place enough. I don't even have a favorite because they're all delicious, though I have to say the ones with rum are my go-to.

I had stumbled on this wonderful chocolate store to my amazement. You can walk right by this place without knowing or seeing this place. The Owner & Chocolatier - "Justin" was fun, informative, passionate, & truly defined southern hospitality. He truly makes his chocolate from the bean, and the care and detail of his process translates to excellent tasting chocolate that looks like art! There is limited street parking; however, there is ample parking behind the adjacent bakery. Must try!

Super excited to have a new Chocolatier in town! Their stuff is absolutely delicious and the staff is super friendly and knowledgeable. Everything is made in house and I like how they use some local Roulaison Rum (their next door neighbor) in some of their chocolates. They also had several gluten free friendly options which is always really nice to find. We tried their Gianduja Bar and their Tiki Bar chocolates and we were very impressed! Their pricing is totally reasonable too. Can't wait to try some of their other fun ones like Han But Not Forgotten!

I came to Piety and Desire recently and it is simply amazing! I loved meeting Chris, the chocolatier. He is so passionate about his craft and does an excellent job. The chocolates are rich and decadent -- there is no other word except for delicious. I loved the Brown Butter Bourbon and the Single Origin. I would highly recommend stopping by!

Omg! This place is a treat. They are so kind. The chocolate is delicious. Even though everything is very sophisticated and elevated, the store is not pretentious at all and they offer a range of selections to satisfy every taste. They are very helpful and will help you pick the perfect treat. The prices are amazing for the high quality you get. I paid about $8 for 4 delectable bonbons. My favorite candy I got was the cafe au beignet. My experience here made my afternoon great. They even gave me an ice pack to help keep my chocolate solid while I traveled. Please do yourself a favor and treat yourself here. You deserve and you won't be disappointed. I cannot wait to come back.

Beautiful chocolates. A special treat and glad to learn they will soon have a store front.

Decadent and delicious. These handmade small batch chocolates are some of the best I've ever had. The shop has an old school vibe that has to be experienced. Chris, the owner, is also a stand up guy who loves his craft. You'll want to buy one of everything because they're that good.

I'm a bean to bar chocolate maker so I am always ready to visit a kindred soul. These guys are the real thing and do a great job combining flavors and trying new directions in bon-bon making. The chocolate is well crafted an the people are very friendly and full of information and willing to chat about their craft. Worth a drive if you want to try some truly hand crafted treats.

Truth: I've never set foot in the shop, but my brother has gifted me these chocolates twice. My birthday and Christmas. I'm still thinking about them! So very yummy, original and unique.

Owner was really friendly, willing to talk to us, and the chocolate was delicious! Definitely some place you need to stop if you're close by or even if you're not.

This place is a great find! I now have to stop by weekly to get my fix. Every truffle is unique and delicious. The chocolate bars are so incredible! Each one is handcrafted with the utmost concern for detail. Right down to the packaging made from materials that when planted grow wild flowers. If you love chocolate you must check these guys out!

Been once so far and I loved it! The chocolate truffles were delicious and the staff was super nice. I will definitely be back.

Delightfully delicious hand crafted chocolates with creative flavors. Very friendly staff too.