Susan C.
Yelp
If you've ever tried Royce's chocolates then you know that perfect melt-in-your-mouth consistency....that perfectly smooth, creamy texture that feels like you dipped your tongue in a silky chocolate fondue.
The store space at this location is small, a box of a room located on the first floor of a building facing the southern edge of Bryant Park. Staff are friendly and knowledgeable. Walls are lined with shelves featuring different chocolate bars, gift boxes/sets, chocolate covered cookies, biscuits, and potato chips. The center display showcases their famous nama style chocolates in various flavors--their dark chocolate, matcha, strawberry champagne are some of my favorite flavors. They have seasonal limited editions like liquor (bourbon/whisky) flavors which I haven't tried but look intriguing.
My only couple gripes are that 1) there are artificial flavors listed on the ingredients list, compared with some other high end chocolatiers who only use natural ingredients. 2) to maintain the integrity of the chocolate because of the high milk/cream content, their top line Nama chocolate specifically (not all their chocolates) must be kept chilled and has a fairly short best by consumption date of within two weeks. The latter while a bit inconvenient, I don't mind as much because real ingredients equals real expiration dates, but the artificial flavors on some of their offerings does bug me a little. Like I get the strawberry champagne flavor is probably difficult to maintain consistency without the artificial ingredients, but other flavors I would not expect this to be an issue. Overall it wouldn't stop me from purchasing the chocolate, but just a small peeve of mine.