The Chocolate Truffle

Friendly helpful staff, lovely selection of chocolate-related gifts, BEST CHOCOLATE EVER!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Simply the Best Homemade Chocolate Shop around. Pricey as good chocolate is but worth it. They use real Coconut & not the nasty cream stuff that most places use. Real Peanut Butter in the Truffles as well. The milk Chocolate is smooth and not sickeningly sweet. The Peppermint mixed with Chocolate is also to do die for.
Worth the trip there as they have closed their Winchester location.

Absolutely favorite local chocolate and gift shop! We have purchased many gifts of chocolate for family and friends. The truffles are fabulous especially the dark chocolate and raspberry truffles. The Oreo bark and stuffer peanut butter cups are huge hits with the kids! The staff is very friendly and helpful with suggestions!

My husband and I have been going to the Chocolate Truffle for a few years now. It is by far my favorite chocolate around. I prefer it over other fancy high priced chocolate that you can find in the malls, which in my opinion doesn’t even compare to The Chocolate Truffle.
My favorite by far is the PB Crisp and the Dark Chocolate fantasy, but you can’t go wrong with pretty much anything!
Every time I go I make sure to stock up, and it’s still never enough.

I love this place! My husband loves the bacon truffle. I love the chili one. The staff is extremely helpful. Try the «chicken» wings!!! :-)

OMG! As a chocolate buff for more years than I care to say here, I was blown away by the Sea Salt truffles from this new chocolatier. I lived in Europe for over 20 years and have had all the alleged best — Belgium (thumbs down), Switzerland (ditto), France (not bad) and Germany (YUM!), but these folks make utterly dreamy treats. The Truffles (dark for me) were creamy with the thinnest of shells. I forget what else I bought but I will definitely be back. My fav is absolutely the Sea Salt Dark Chocolate Truffle. Love that little bit of salty with the dark chocolate. Met the owner who was delightful. Staff was knowledgeable and packed everything beautifully. Definitely 4 yums up!

If you’re looking for outstanding chocolates & stellar customer service, The Chocolate Truffle in Reading is the place to go! The brioche & gift baskets are perfect ‘grab & go’ gifts, or you can create a custom box of chocolates from the delicious selections in the case. And the shipping service saved me alot of time & hassle during the holidays!

Erin, one of the owners, is one of the sweetest people on the planet. I actually live directly behind the shop and work at a bakery down the street, and see her all over the place. It’s great to see a local business owner out and about in the town she’s helping make stronger!
The salted caramels (not the truffles, the caramels) are one of my favorite foods of all time. They’re the perfect combination of dark chocolate, chewy (not gooey, very important!) caramel, and sea salt. Amazing.

While some may argue that Cheers is a bar where they always know your name… the chocolate truffle is that place for me.
Their chocolate is creamy and not too sweet. I love giving the Brioche arrangements as gifts and am always met with awe of their beauty.
I ordered their little makeup and shoe bags for my bridesmaids when asking for the girls to be in our wedding and sent Sam Adams Truffles to our groomsmen.
I’ve collected the thank you bars to give as a step up from a plain old card. Nothing shows gratitude like saying it in chocolate.
My favorite has to be the chocolate and peanut butter chicken wings with fluff dipping sauce! So creative and so tastey!
I love that the store offers a frequent shopper punch card! I’ve eaten my way through the hole punches!
I can’t say enough about this adorable shop. I love giving these truffles because they are a great gift and a great local treasure!

I just spent the better part of a year working on Newbury Street in Boston, and when I got a chocolate craving (and I am serious about my chocolate, no Hershey’s or candy isle chocolate will do here…), I found myself having to wait until I could get out of work and drive to Reading to go to The Chocolate Truffle! — L.A. Burdick’s, Lindt, Teuscher’s would not do, even though all within easy access of my office. The Chocolate Truffle is generous with their portions — most of their «truffles» are at least «two-​bite» chocolates, not teenie portions like L.A. Burdick’s (although I personally try to get 4 or 5 little nibbles out of each truffle… make them last…) Their base chocolates are exquisite; previously I would turn away milk or white chocolates, settling only for dark chocolate — not the case here — dark is still my favorite, but their milks and whites are also rich and scrumptious! I swear these chocolates must be made in small batches because their flavors and ingredients always come across as crisp and fresh. The staff LOVES chocolate — they aren’t just selling it — they are serious «chocolate foodies». They experiment with seasonal flavors (my current faves are the fig truffle ((yes, fig!!!)) and the pomegranate), offer their versions of more traditional flavors (salted caramel, mint julip, turtles, etc.) and wow the mind with an array of specialty bars (things like «pumpkin seed & apricot,» to «barbecue chip and bacon») and «dipped» treats — like chocolate dipped Pringles and Twinkies! If you like peanut butter cups, you will find the biggest, richest, most decadent pb cup ever — and if you are looking for a party pleaser try the «chocolate pizza». I could Unilocal for pages about this place… really best you just go in and experience for yourself. they will have my business for life! I’m sure they ship chocolate too, so don’t let not being local stop you!
One serious note to help you all find the shop, although on the main street in Reading (Route 28), the shop is hard to spot… They are in the ground floor of a tan colored house with green awnings, just on the edge of downtown. Although their logo is embossed on the awnings, it is a busy section of 28 and I find it hard to read. Sadly I find describing their location as «almost diagonally across the street from McDonald’s «easier for people to understand than to get them looking for the store’s own signage or street address. Hopefully one day there will be a clearer sign out front, as I suspect lots of folks pass this place regularly — unaware of the gem hidden in that little home.
I marked them as rather pricey (twenty-​something a pound), but their prices are completely in line and competative with the types of chocolatiers I mentioned above… in fact, I think they are technically a little cheaper than the big chocolate houses I mentioned — but I would go to them even if they cost substantially more. I have ordered and flown artisan chocolates in from France, Switzerland, Germany, NYC and San Francisco and I honestly rank The Chocolate Truffle right up at the tippity top!

I got my girlfriend her Valentine’s Day present here and she loved it. I also may or may not have sampled a couple of the chocolate covered fruits and they were delicious.