Handcrafted Chocolate:
Inside the Atelier
For over seventy-five years, every Compartés chocolate has been made by hand, in small batches, the old-fashioned way. Crafted with time-honored European methods.
An old-world craft,
made in California
Our methods were born in the kitchens of Europe and carried west by a family of chocolate makers. Generations later, we still refuse every shortcut. No stabilizers, no preservatives, no compromises. Just temperature, patience, and the finest cocoa we can find.
We take market-fresh ingredients and fruit from the orchards of California, and fold them into chocolate by hand.
Our heritage →
A state-of-the-art Los Angeles kitchen
Part laboratory, part atelier. Our Los Angeles workshop is where raw cacao becomes art, one small batch at a time, by the same hands from start to finish.
Small Batches
Cooked, stirred and tempered in small batches, the old-fashioned way.
Fresh Ingredients
Orchard fruit and farmer’s market flavors, sourced for each run.
Hand Finished
Every bar and bonbon wrapped and packaged by hand.
The things we refuse to rush
By Hand
Over 75 years of small-batch, handmade craft.
Time-Honored
Old-world European methods, generations deep.
From California
California fruit, in season and folded in fresh.
Hand-Finished
Every order wrapped and packed by hand.
Shipped straight from the chocolate room
Every order is hand-packed in our Los Angeles atelier and shipped directly from the chocolate room to your door, as fresh as the day it was made.
Handcrafted in Los Angeles · Made fresh, shipped fresh