John & Kira’s

Best chocolate I’ve had in my life, and I have eaten a lot of chocolate. These nearly ruined all other chocolate for me. The dark valrhona chocolate is so rich, mildly sweet, and perfectly dense.
I send the every flavor box as gifts and recipients are always blown away and become repeat customers themselves.
They’re expensive, so I reserve them for special occasions or for a time I feel like treating myself.
They have a variety of salted caramel, figs, truffles, but I am so in love with the every flavor box I don’t want to risk getting something I love less than those chocolates because of the price.
If you’re a chocolate connoisseur, I highly recommend entering this dark side of chocolate.
***The only downside is they’re shipping issues due to the nature of delivering perishable goods via UPS. If you want your gift of their chocolates to arrive on a particular day, it’s not possible for a delivery on weekends or a Monday, or a Tuesday unless you want to pay a surcharge for overnight delivery.

I have tried chocolats from around the world, including those produced by Her Majesty the Queen’s purveyor in the UK; John and Kira’s are truly superior to all of them.
Combine the eximious quality, whimsy and creativity with superlative customer service and you have a fan for life!

Sampled at Christmas Village yesterday. .unreal how good in the Éclat of West Chester quality. Look forward to more!

Can you marry chocolate? Because I want to marry these chocolates.
My boss’s wife stopped in here and sent some up to our office. We decided to use them for our corporate gifts.
The chocolates are not only gorgeous to look at but they are simply delicious.
You can taste the different flavors in each piece almost separately but then they come together and it is just magic. I love the honey bees and the figs.
These chocolates are truly special. You can tell they are made with care and love.

I’ve ordered from them online twice now… once at Xmas and more recently for Valentine’s Day. Be prepared to eat a whole box of whatever you order and this is coming from someone who doesn’t care all that much for chocolate! I have tried the Peanut Butter Pralines (it was supposed to be a gift for my brother but I ended up eating them all before he even arrived!) and the Tortoises (halfway through already!)… the chocolate is thick and rich and not too sweet and the fillings are to die for. Just good quality ingredients with a great flavor AND texture. Will order again but only during the times I am willing to gain a few pounds… lol

I’ve only ordered online but there’s nothing not to love about John & Kira’s. The chocolates come in beautiful packaging and make the perfect gift. And customer service goes out of their way to make sure you’re happy!

We have received this as a Christmas gift for several years now and i have to say the chocolate covered figs stuffed with ganache are the BEST thing I’ve tried in a long time. Mind you, not a lot of people love figs as much as I do but these things are truly divine. Also the chocolate bees are adorable and taste yummy!

I am officially obsessed!
The Every Flavor chocolate ganache squares are my FAVORITE gift to give and get (for myself). The chocolate here is delectable and I am really hooked on it. Although its not my thing, others who have eaten the chocolate dipped figs are also very impressed.
I order these as gifts for family and friends for special occasions, and they do a great job. Last Christmas a shipment got lost by UPS (lucky folks there may have been able to enjoy it, I hope). I sent an email to John and Kiras’ email listed on the website and they helped me out immediately!
This year, they sold out of the Every Flavor boxes online… a few days before Christmas, so ORDER EARLY!!!
Finally, I really appreciate their commitment to sustainable farming, and to their community. It makes me really happy to get such great food from a place that does good.
YUM!

I am a chocolate enthusiast, and I cannot emphasize how much I love John & Kira’s chocolates. My first J&K was the everything collection, and I was especially wowed by two flavors: honey lavender and strawberry. Then I tried other collections: enchanted garden, enchanted forest, tortoises, chocolate figs, bees, ladybug pralines, ladybug medley, wildflowers, and mushrooms. I highly recommend all the caramels (bees, mushrooms, tortoises, wildflowers). The bees, mushrooms, and wildflowers have liquid caramel inside, whereas the tortoises have a more solid caramel. I also recommend the chocolate figs, which are dried figs filed with whiskey-​infused dark chocolate ganache and then dipped in dark chocolate. They are better than good.
Note: I’ve never been to the actual boutique, so I can’t comment on service. The rating is purely based on the chocolates. I always go to the Farmer’s Market at 36^th and Walnut to get my supply of J&K.

Why John & Kira’s Chocolates are a Great Valentine’s «Gift»:
1) Their chocolate ladybugs are «almost too cute too eat.» ALMOST.
2) My favorite green ladybugs have a bright and clean mint flavor that reminded me of a mojito.
3) The yellow ladybugs reminded me of Bi-Rite’s Honey Lavender ice cream but with a more pronounced lavender flavor.
4) The red ladybugs tasted of berries but it was guessed as being cherry rather than raspberry.
5) Very nice packaging. (Did you know that ladybugs are considered to be good luck?)
6) A thoughtful mission, partnerships with sustainable and family owned businesses, and a very cool Urban Farm Project.
7) A taste of their pretty Chocolate Figs (which actually the fig lover didn’t care for due to the strong whisky flavor in the ganache). More ladybugs please!
(Does it count as a «gift» if you eat more of the chocolates than the gift recipient? Hypothetically speaking of course.)

I’ve LOVED John & Kira since the moment I first experienced their PERFECT brittle. I went with them for my Valentine’s Day needs this year… but I’m a super planner and ordered nearly a month ahead of time. I received shipping notification on the Monday before V-Day…and the package arrived a day early… exactly as I ordered it… with the exact gift message I wrote. No matter where you are, THIS is a chocolatier to consider when you need the perfect, special treat for that not-​so-​perfect, yet still beyond special someone!

Adorable chocolate and honey truffles. Great as gifts.

I have a terrible sweet tooth, to the point where I just flat-​out avoid confections, except for special occasions, because if it’s really good, I won’t be able to stop eating them. Well, that definitely happened to the box of chocolate truffle ladybugs and honey-​caramel bees that my fiancé got me. I took one bite of a ladybug, and as the smooth, rich ganache melted in my mouth I knew that I was in trouble. After sinking my teeth into a caramel bee, the fate of their brethren was decided.
I very generously (no, seriously) offered him one of each, which thankfully for me he accepted. The remaining five bugs were ALL MINE, and I savored each and every bite. I have to say, the caramel has a particularly lovely flavor with the addition of the honey, and given the richness of the chocolate truffles it was nice to receive both in one box to balance out the bitter chocolate with the sweet honey-​caramel. LOVE! But now I have to avoid that shelf whenever I go into Di Brunos Bros…

Ok so someone here has a crazy good palate. Because the every flavor box I got as a gift is mind blowing. The ganache is so smooth but what is amazing is the flavors. All very fresh but all so insanely balanced and subtle but not overpowered by or overpowering the chocolate.
I have decided that his place has to be like a real world Willy Wonka. There is some mad genius with crazy skills creating flavors that are like fireworks on your tongue, but they have no physical shop you can go to so they must be hiding oompa loompa slave labor hand decorating the chocolates. This can be the only explanation for how and why their chocolate candies are so good. I mean sure the sourcing fresh ingredients probably helps but there is a mad top hat wearing perfectionist in there somewhere.

In the not-​so-​distant past, I made some negative comments about the Philly food scene on my review of Modo Mio that seemed to have irked a lot of Philly natives. I was a bit hasty in making a judgment and offer my apologies. Having been to Philly a few times and trying many of the top rated restaurants, I have come to the realization that Philly’s offerings are mind-​blowingly fantastic. As a testment to that, I am writing a review of one of my favorite shops that I have discovered.
We’ve all heard the cliché, «Don’t judge a book by its cover». As much as I hate to judge anything based on looks and presentation (especially when it comes to food), desserts are a category where I feel that taste, looks, and creativity all have to perfectly intermingle to produce the ultimate experience.
I first encountered John and Kira’s (J&K) chocolates from the food section at
. The chocolates immediately caught my eye b/​c they were in the shape of red (raspberry), green (garden mint), and yellow (honey lavender) colored ladybugs/​bees.
I thought the presentation was clever and innovative. I have yet to see anything like this on the market. However, I showed these to several people and they thought the idea of eating something in the shape of an insect was repulsive. Ha! It seemed there were differences in opinion as to how the «cover» looked.
The taste is quite unique. The chocolates are infused with real herbs and spices in fresh cream with «just picked» garden mint or fresh young ginger from the island of Molokai in Hawaii. Surprisingly, nothing about the taste made it stand out from the likes of the top chocolate shops in the US such as Vosges-​Haut, which are in my opinion, just as creative on the taste side.
What a disappointment or so I thought until I tried the caramels.
All this time, I was focusing on the ladybug chocolates b/​c of their visual appeal. However, the true gem was the «ugly duckling,» the non-​decorated, plain ‘olé shaped and brown colored chocolate covered caramels.
The caramels are mindblowing. The moment you bite into the chocolate, the liquid caramel will ooze out… and having a taste of that will remind you of eating raw honey. It’s the feeling that you have tasted something special that you cannot get in your local market.
The caramels are made of extremely high quality ingredients and they have a marvelous texture. They are extremely buttery and they glide through your mouth. My opinion is that the caramel quality is on-​par or very close to the best caramels in the world (which is sold by Jacques Genin in Paris France). If I were to say one thing that’s limiting it’s that there is a lack of selection (no fruit flavored caramels like the mango infused caramel at Jacques Genin).
There were many twists and turns throughout this journey where I was initially drawn into the presentation of the chocolates and I found treasure in an area where I least expected. I guess we should all learn from this lesson and have an open mind when trying things out. There are many good surprises in life!

I went to Philadelphia to visit a friend. I saw this company at a Farmer’s Market and decided to purchase 2 boxes of chocolate as a gift for my Mom’s friend who let me stay with her. I asked the 2 employees not once, but twice, if the products had any nuts due to my Mom’s friends allergy. They said no, the products do not have nuts. I purchased this very expensive chocolate and presented them to her later that day. On the back, the packaging states that the chocolates are made in a factory with nuts. To someone who can die from this nut allergy, that matters. I was embarrassed to have given her this as a gift, she clearly could not eat it.
Later, I called the company and spoke with an employee, not the owners. I got a pathetic sorry. Thank God she did not eat the chocolates and have to go to the hospital.
IRRESPONSIBLE!

Unsure of the quality of J&K’s confections? Find them at one of Philly’s farmers’ markets (also in the burbs) & sample for yourself.
Not only will you be supporting a fab local business — you can save up to 30% off the online prices with their Farmers’ Market rates. They also have an inventive frequent buyer program that offers progressive rewards including free boxes of chocolate, J&K’s swag, or even a free factory tour.
Personally I’m a sucker for the seasonal flavors they’ve been rolling out — hellooo spiced caramel pumpkins!

Super yummy ORTGANIC chocolate treats — and adorable packaging. Those cute little ladybugs are awesome party favors or gifts. You can get them alot more places, too, nowadays like RTM and farmer’s markets as well as online.
Love the little bumble bees, too.
Yes, they are expensive (but check out other high-​end cholatiers — and they are within range) but you get what you pay for here. GREAT packaging and deliciousness inside. (The raspberry filling is my fave — I am not a mint lover.)
Keep up the good work J&K’s!

Diamond ring? No darling just tell me you love me every week with a box of John and Kira’s!
Ladybugs…ganache glory.
Pumpkins…oozy ganache pumpkin cinaminy goodness
Cherries…the most glorious grown up cherry chocolate for miles
Honey Bees… oh lover in the words of jeff buckley
Assorted Flavors… divine
However, my faves… those decadent figs. Stuffed with whiskey ganache and dipped in chocolate. They are the most wonderful figs in the world. I would lick the bathroom floor at bob and barbaras if you told me I could have one a day for the rest of my life!

I first laid eyes on John and Kira’s Chocolates at Philly’s Farmer’s Market. The «Bees» drew me in, and they were FREE! They were handing out full samples of all their chocolates!
I bought a box of 15 Assorted Chocolates for $ 30 and it was worth every penny! It came in this cute wooden box and the gentleman gave me 2 ice-​packs to put around it for my travels back to NYC. Talk about service!
Let us go through the various flavors:
* Garden Mint
Just slightly minty and not too sweet
* Glenn’s Raspberry
Mmm, sweet, tart, and full of raspberry flavor
* Mut Vitz Coffee Whiskey
I don’t remember this one, maybe it wasn’t in my box
* Lavender Honey
Oooh, this was a GOOD ONE! Lavender, flowery goodness
* Glenn’s Strawberry
Not a strawberry fan but this was definitely delicious
* Papohaku Farm Ginger
Ginger was pretty strong, different but good.
* Pistachi-​oh!
I shared all my chocolates but this one, THIS ONE’S MY FAV!!!
* Lingering Lemongrass
Very thai-​ish flavor, interesting, good
* Starry Night (Anise)
This ones strong, good to nibble on
* Bergamot Chocolate (Earl Grey Tea)
This was a bit strange but if you love tea, this is for you
And the Bee’s! Filled to the Rim with delicious Caramel, Yum!
Personally I’m not a hug caramel fan, but who can resist this beautiful hand-​painted bees!!!
* Check out the Pics of these delights!