Chocolates by Tomes

Who We Are In March 2005 the first cornerstone was laid for Chocolates By Tomes when owners Richard and Lorraine bought the chocolate shop at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. In that same year, Chocolates by Tomes opened a small factory from where our first range was envisaged, tweaked in the pursuit of taste and finally released in December 2005. With a total of 4 staff, our adventure began. Africa is the worlds largest grower and exporter of cocoa beans, they are used by the top chocolate houses of Europe. Africa exports this valuable raw ingredient and re-imports the more expensive chocolate, to us at Chocolates By Tomes, this seemed wrong. So in 2007, we took a stance, we made the decision to make our own chocolate. We spent months researching recipes, learnt the theory, experimented with unconched ingredients to at least gather information on taste profiles. When we had gone as far as we could without a conch, we took a gamble, sold the shop, bought a conch and began exper...