YORK · CHOCOLATE TOURS
The ones worth booking.
The 9 york chocolate tours worth booking. A short list of the ones travellers come home raving about, with prices, run times and who runs them.
York's Chocolate Story guided tour mixes York chocolate history, expert-style tastings, and a hands-on session making a chocolate lolly in 75 minutes.
Most Popular“Fantastic guide around an interesting and fun trip round York’s chocolate history. Rachel C was fantastic as our guide -making sure we all had our chocolate allowance!”
Make a custom 200g chocolate bar in York Cocoa Works. Learn tempering and toppings, then wrap your bar to take home.
“We was very lucky and we went on a quite day and had a one on one session with the chocolate maker. she was amazing and was so incitful into the making and history of chocolate. If you go to York please let this be on top of your list. amazing :)”
Learn chocolate tempering in York Cocoa Works, design a single-origin bar, taste it, and wrap it to take home in about 1h 15m.
“You get to learn about the cocoa bean and where the company gets theirs from. You get to understand more about how chocolate is made. Making the chocolate was an eye opener on how to do this and the taste of the chocolate was amazing. I would highly recommend this activity when visiting York.”
45-minute York Cocoa Works chocolate tour with small-group tasting of cocoa origins to York-made bars, plus cafe discount.
A small-group bean-to-bar tasting in York where you watch chocolate made, taste cocoa from around the world, and leave with discounts.
“Lovely experience. The whole processing of making chocolates were detailed explained by our tour guide and the chocolates we tried were delicious!”
A 75-minute detective-style walk through York’s medieval streets, plus a chocolate factory tasting and stories behind York’s most notorious characters.
“I wanted more history details and less jokes. This tour would be great for some… but I wasn’t into the quirkiness. The guide was very nice but the premise wasn’t my cup of tea.”
A character-led York walking tour with sharp local storytelling and an included York Chocolate Story sample for a fun, quick first look.
“An absolutely fascinating tour by Inspector Trinket! she was engaging, funny, and full of fascinating facts. she took us to places in York we had never been before and showed us lots of secrets we would have missed. highly recommended, but not so many puns next time!”
Learn to make traditional York truffles with tempered chocolate, ganache skills, and takeaway wrapping. 2.5 hours near York Castle.
“Maybe include a factory tour.”
Learn chocolate basics and make truffles at York Cocoa Works, then take home about 300g of your creations with recipes and tips.
“I didn’t get to this master class at all, you could buy a ticket in the system for Thursday, I came to the place and was told that master classes are not held on Thursdays and apparently there was some kind of error in the system. They told me to write by email, I wrote,…”
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