1
Magno Chocolates
Santa Bárbara · Carrera 15 #124-29
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
5.0 average · 645+ Google reviews · Cocoa of Excellence 2024 (Amsterdam)
Founded in 2017 by chocolatier and entrepreneur Nataly Nicholls, Magno is the most internationally recognized Bogotá-based chocolatería on the list. The brand works exclusively with single-origin Colombian Fino de Aroma cacao — the rarest 8% of world cacao production — and the bean Magno sources from was crowned Best in the World at the 2024 Cocoa of Excellence competition in Amsterdam.
The bonbons are hand-painted, the gift boxes are designed like jewelry, and the operation runs primarily as e-commerce with international shipping (they launched in the US in 2024). The Santa Bárbara address is a distribution office in Edificio Las Arcadas, across from Unicentro — not a sit-down café, but where you pick up custom orders.
This is hands down the best chocolate I've ever tasted.
— Sebastian Marin, magnochocolates.us
A woman-owned, award-winning Colombian chocolatería with the medals to back the marketing. The Fino de Aroma boxes are the gift to give.
- Founded
- 2017 · Nataly Nicholls
- Address
- Carrera 15 #124-29, Oficina 416, Edificio Las Arcadas
- Hours
- Mon–Fri 8:00 AM–5:00 PM · Sat 8:00 AM–12:00 PM
- Specialty
- Single-origin Fino de Aroma bonbons; gift boxes; ships internationally
- Awards
- Cocoa of Excellence 2024 (cacao source); Fine Chocolate Industry Association member
- WhatsApp
- +57 302 295 3764
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Luisa Brun Chocolates
Parque de la 93 · Carrera 11A #93A-22
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
4.8 average · TripAdvisor #66 of 292 Bogotá shopping
Three generations of chocolate-making. Luisa Brun was established in 1985, with the flagship boutique opening in Parque de la 93 in 1992, and the family has been running the operation under the Pardo name for more than seventy years. The shop is a Bogotá institution — handcrafted truffles, Belgian technique, more than fifty flavor varieties combining chocolate with fruits, spices, and liqueurs.
The Parque 93 flagship is the one to visit. Beautiful gift box presentations, generous tastings, and the kind of staff who can talk you through fifty truffles without sounding rehearsed. There is a second location in Rosales for the Zona G crowd.
Eureka we found gold! Intoxicated by the aroma and impressed by the selection — a family owned and run chocolate shop. We had no trouble purchasing simply wrapped gifts for friends and to fulfill our daily dosages of vitamin CH.
— dashgold, TripAdvisor
The boutique chocolaterie locals send tourists to when they want them to understand what Bogotá taste means.
- Founded
- 1985 (boutique 1992) · Pardo family, third generation
- Address
- Carrera 11A #93A-22, Parque de la 93 (second location in Rosales)
- Hours
- Mon–Sat 9:30 AM–7:30 PM · Sun 10:00 AM–6:00 PM
- Specialty
- 50+ truffle varieties; Belgian-style fillings; gift boxes
- Landline
- +57 601 611-5542
- WhatsApp
- +57 317 576 9027
3
Chuculat
Chapinero · Carrera 10A #69-23
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
5.0 average · TripAdvisor · "Chocolatier for a Day" workshops
Chuculat is more than a shop — it's a chocolate experience. Founded in 2008 by Hernán David Jiménez, the operation works on an Agrobiz model that pays small Colombian cacao farmers 30% above market price and trains them in post-harvest fermentation and drying. The retail front sells single-origin dark bars, cacao nibs, and thick hot chocolate.
The signature offer is the "Chocolatier for a Day" workshop: visitors learn how cacao becomes chocolate, then make and wrap their own bars to take home. Kids love it, food-curious travelers love it more. Hernán himself often hosts the sessions.
We did the chocolatier-for-the-day experience with our young kids. They loved learning how chocolate was made.
— raj_atx, TripAdvisor (November 2025)
Buy a bar, but better — book the workshop. The most generous chocolate experience in Chapinero.
- Founded
- 2008 · Hernán David Jiménez
- Address
- Carrera 10A #69-23, Chapinero, Bogotá 110231
- Hours
- Mon–Sat 11:00 AM–7:00 PM · Closed Sundays
- Specialty
- Single-origin Colombian bars; hot chocolate; bean-to-bar workshops
- Model
- Pays farmers 30% above market price · Fair-trade Agrobiz
- WhatsApp
- +57 312 636 1765
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Lachoco Latera Chocolatería
La Macarena · Carrera 4A #26B-12
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
4.7 Google · 1,696 reviews on Restaurant Guru
A bohemian chocolaterie tucked into La Macarena, founded by Marcela Portela (who studied chocolate anthropology at Universidad Externado and trained under Argentine chocolatiers) and her partner Rafael. The bonbons combine Belgian technique with Colombian ingredients — lemon-coconut, mango-green pepper, sabajón-feijoa using Boyacá liquor, dark chocolate with black pepper.
The signature is the Barcelona-style hot chocolate, so thick you drink it with a spoon. Order it with almojábana. The space itself — soft music, curated Colombian design, low light — is one of the most quietly romantic café experiences in central Bogotá.
Friendly and attentive staff and fantastic chocolate desserts, savoury treats and hot chocolate to die for.
— Temple1992, TripAdvisor
If the Bogotá rain has you cold, Lachoco Latera is the cure. Order the spoon-thick chocolate and don't rush.
- Founded
- Marcela Portela & Rafael
- Address
- Carrera 4A #26B-12, La Macarena, Bogotá 110311
- Hours
- Mon–Wed 12:30 PM–8 PM · Thu–Sat 1 PM–9 PM · Sun 1 PM–7 PM
- Specialty
- Belgian-Colombian bonbons; spoon-thick hot chocolate; bohemian café
- WhatsApp
- +57 320 250 6687
5
Cacao y Mas Cacao
La Candelaria · Calle 12B #3-61
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
4.6 average · "A mecca for chocoholics in Colombia"
A family-owned chocolaterie in the heart of La Candelaria, founded in November 2007 and dedicated to researching and reviving Colombian cacao culture. They underwent four years of R&D before opening to the public as a specialty shop in 2011 — and that obsessive attention shows in the menu: handmade truffles, single-origin bars organized by region, organic water-based cacao drinks, and traditional Colombian hot chocolate.
The women who run the shop are the secret. They will walk you through every cacao origin if you ask, and you should ask.
The cacao drinks with water are sooo flavorful and the little chocolates are incredible as well. Delicious hot chocolate. You can tell they use very good ingredients.
— TripAdvisor review
The Candelaria institution. Walk here after the Botero Museum and order the water-based cacao — it changes how you think about the drink.
- Founded
- 2007 (public 2011) · Family-run
- Address
- Calle 12B #3-61, Candelaria Centro, Bogotá
- WhatsApp
- +57 321 458 6720
- Specialty
- Single-origin Colombian cacao; water-based cacao drinks; truffles
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Veloo. Chocolate, Café & Maíz
Teusaquillo · Calle 45 #19-56
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
4.7 Google · 200+ aggregated reviews
A contemporary Teusaquillo café that built its menu around the three pillars of Colombian rural gastronomy: chocolate, coffee, and corn. Fine aromatic cacaos from the country's main origins; specialty single-origin coffee; corn-based pastries — tartas, empanadas, cuajada — that act as the perfect counterweight to the chocolate.
Sleek interior, strong WiFi, the kind of place where you go for a chocolate flight at 3 PM and end up working until 6. Hosts cuppings and tasting events. One of the best modern café reinterpretations of Colombian flavors in Bogotá.
Really cozy place with great products, fair prices and nice service. Excellent products and justified prices, plus wifi to work or read.
— TripAdvisor review
A modern café that treats Colombian flavor as raw material, not nostalgia. Order the chocolate flight and an arepa de maíz pelao.
- Address
- Calle 45 #19-56, Centro Comercial Plaza 53, Teusaquillo
- WhatsApp
- +57 313 480 4550
- Specialty
- Chocolate + coffee + corn-based Colombian pastries; cupping events
- Social
- Instagram @veloo.tol
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Taller Kakaw
Chapinero · Kakaw Museo network
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
5.0 average on GetYourGuide & Civitatis · Bilingual workshop
Part chocolate workshop, part museum, part dinner. Taller Kakaw belongs to the Kakaw Museo network (also in Minca, Colombia, and San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico) and runs a single immersive experience: visitors taste five different Colombian cacao origins, learn the post-harvest process, make their own truffles, and finish with traditional Colombian pastries — almojábana, carimañola, pandebono, empanada — and hot chocolate.
Guides are bilingual and seriously knowledgeable. The clearest "I'm in Bogotá and want to spend two hours understanding cacao" experience on the list.
The best workshop I attended in Bogotá! Guides Andrea, Juan David and Jackie were great — the afternoon was brilliant.
— GetYourGuide review
Not a shop in the traditional sense — an experience. Book ahead and bring an appetite.
- Format
- Bilingual chocolate workshop · 2–3 hour experience
- Includes
- 5 cacao origin tasting · truffle-making · Colombian pastry plate
- Network
- Kakaw Museo (Bogotá · Minca · San Cristóbal de las Casas)
- Booking
- GetYourGuide, Civitatis, or direct via Kakaw Museo
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Federación Chocolate
Parque 93 · Calle 93A #11-67
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Official store of the Federación Nacional de Cacaoteros · 7 origins
Opened in September 2020 as the first official storefront of the Federación Nacional de Cacaoteros, Colombia's national federation of cacao growers. The store is essentially a tasting room for the country's seven cacao-producing regions — Tolima, Caquetá, Arauca, Nariño, Magdalena, Antioquia, Huila — sold side by side as bars, truffles, drinks, spiced and fruited bonbons. Prices run COP 7,000 to 38,000.
This isn't a craft chocolatier in the artisan sense — it's an institutional showcase. But it's the single best place in Bogotá to taste cacao from seven Colombian regions in one sitting. Colombian cacao has earned multiple awards at the Salon du Chocolat in Paris.
A tribute to Colombian cacao that finally gives the grower federation a public face. Worth the visit for the origin breadth alone.
— Revista DC editorial coverage
Go for the geography lesson. Leave with a bar from a department you've never bought from.
- Opened
- September 2020 · Federación Nacional de Cacaoteros
- Address
- Calle 93A #11-67, Parque 93, Bogotá 110221
- Origins
- Tolima, Caquetá, Arauca, Nariño, Magdalena, Antioquia, Huila
- Price Range
- COP 7,000–38,000
- Recognition
- Colombian cacao: multiple Salon du Chocolat Paris awards
- WhatsApp
- +57 350 435 6985
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Esencia Kcao
Usaquén · Calle 107 #8B-27
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Custom & corporate gifts · Hand-painted bonbons
Founded by Lisbeisy Díaz, Esencia Kcao is a small Usaquén workshop turning 100% Colombian chocolate into hand-painted Belgian-style bonbons — white, milk 37%, dark 53% — with fillings like red berries, hazelnut, vanilla, cappuccino. Strong corporate-gift practice; custom packaging for weddings, events, and brand activations.
The online footprint is small but the customer feedback is consistent: punctual delivery, presentation matching photos, attentive service. A specialist's specialist, more than a walk-in destination.
Excellent service, punctual delivery, product presentation matching photos, cordial customer attention.
— Customer review (translated from Spanish)
For when you need 200 hand-painted bonbons with your logo on them and you need them to look like jewelry.
- Founder
- Lisbeisy Díaz
- Address
- Calle 107 #8B-27, Usaquén, Bogotá (workshop)
- Hours
- Mon–Fri 8:30 AM–4:30 PM · Sat 8:30 AM–2:00 PM
- Specialty
- Hand-painted Belgian-style bonbons; corporate gifts; custom orders
- WhatsApp
- +57 314 284 4436
10
Tienda Del Chocolate
Teusaquillo · Calle 53 #21-20
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
4.2 average · Supplies, molds, courses · Operated by Imagen Gama
Less a chocolatería and more the shop where chocolatiers shop. Tienda Del Chocolate stocks silicone and thermoformed molds, pastry equipment, couverture, bars, and accessories at accessible prices, and runs chocolate-making courses on the side. Home delivery and advance orders are part of the standard offer.
If you're a home baker, a pastry student, or a working chocolatier in Bogotá, this is your stop. If you're a tourist looking for a finished bonbon, you're better off elsewhere on this list.
Very complete store with pastry items, accessible prices, and a great variety of silicone molds. Very friendly staff.
— Customer review synthesis
The pro's supply stop. Skip it as a tourist, but if you're making chocolate at home in Bogotá, you'll be back.
- Operator
- Imagen Gama
- Address
- Calle 53 #21-20, Teusaquillo (near Campín station)
- Hours
- Mon–Fri 9:15 AM–5:45 PM · Sat 9:15 AM–3:30 PM
- Specialty
- Chocolate-making supplies, molds, pastry equipment, courses
- WhatsApp
- +57 300 305 0804
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Compañía Nacional de Chocolates Bogotá
Puente Aranda · Calle 19 #68A-45
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Factory outlet · Grupo Nutresa · Jet, Jumbo, Corona, Chocolisto
The factory outlet of Colombia's oldest chocolate maker — Compañía Nacional de Chocolates, founded in 1920 and now the chocolate business unit of Grupo Nutresa. This is where you buy Jet (the iconic Colombian milk-chocolate bar with collectible animal cards), Jumbo, Montblanc, Gol, Corona, and Chocolisto at factory-direct prices, often half retail.
Not artisanal. Not a café. Not a destination for the chocolate-curious tourist looking for fine bars. But for the Bogotá local stocking the pantry — or the diaspora gift-buyer loading up on Jet — this is the move. Prices run COP 5,000–30,000.
Outlet pricing on every Colombian childhood-favorite chocolate brand. If you grew up here, you already know.
— Pulzo editorial coverage
A nostalgic, industrial-scale stop. Buy a bag of Jet for the trip home and don't pretend it's bean-to-bar.
- Parent
- Compañía Nacional de Chocolates (Grupo Nutresa) · Founded 1920
- Address
- Calle 19 #68A-45, Puente Aranda, Bogotá
- Brands
- Jet, Jumbo, Montblanc, Gol, Corona, Chocolisto, Chocolate Santander
- Price Range
- COP 5,000–30,000 · Often half retail
