The Chocolate Escape

I have to be pretty moved to write a review — unfortunately i was not moved in the right direction. After a wonderful day at the Eagle Center my family and I shared a pizza at Flour Mill — four stars for the food and great service. On the wall in the restaurant was a «for sale» ships whistle which during our meal we watched several other adults and kids come by and try via an attached pull cord. I finally said ok to my kids — the restaurant was cleared out by this time — and as my 10 year old son was trying it the guy behind the counter in the candy store — not even in the same room! — came charging in and yanked it out of his hand right in front of us. SO RUDE. When I followed him into the store to ask for an apology he stood arguing with me in front of customers. What kind of Candy Store worker can’t tolerate kids? Absolutely ridiculous. I am still fuming. And it’s really unfortunate this is now my perception of dumpy Wabasha. DO NOT waste your money here.

The unfortunate part about this store is that it’s very cute and the chocolate is great but the owner doesn’t know a thing about customer service. In 1 visit I witnessed him barrate a customer for wanting to use a credit card for less than $ 10 and then he yelled at me about my kids’ sticky fingers — that is ofcourse after they got done eating the chocolates that he sells. I won’t be going back.

Want a Hershey’s? Look somewhere else… This place has very authentic chocolates from Africa. I have been here a couple of times and one time we took a tour. The tour was very interesting and informational. I mean, it’s a chocolate store and has something for everyone, from dark chocolate to malt chocolate.

We visited the Chocolate Escape after a late afternoon lunch @ the Flour Mill Pizzaria. The pizzaria & chocolate shop are connected… all my favorites in one place: pizza & beer, & chocolate & coffee. Wow!
The Chocolate Escape is located in downtown Wabasha & offers a nostalgic experience to chocolate lovers of all kinds. There are tiny truffles, big truffles, turtles, almond bark, fudge, ice cream, & a coffee shop! Great service, wonderful coffee & deliscious chocolate. Try the tiramisu truffle or the rum truffle! Yum!

Great ice cream poor service. Very cranky employee.

I bought a package of sea salt dark chocolate caramels and they really were fantastic.
What killed the small town experience of a hand made chocolate shop was the fact that there was no one at the counter to say hello to, or have small talk, or even talk about the chocolates. People just kept pacing the glass shelf and around the corners, looking for someone to pop out from the kitchen/​restaurant on the other side to help. Kind of odd.
But I did walk out with a darn good caramel with delicious bites of salt on top of it.

I bought a bunch of chocolate here that I planned to eat over this whole coming week. It was sort of a lot of chocolate. Its gone now. I ate it all. The sea salt dark chocolate caramels? Gone. All eight of them. The dark chocolate and caramel pretzel sticks? All gone. Even the sweedish fish and the milk chocolate cashew turtle. There gone and they were DELICIOUS. Awesome little place, wish I would have tried the coffee. Recommended.

Huge variety of chocolates and treats, even if you don’t like chocolate much. Attached is a coffee shop in the back overlooking the river and next to it is the Flour Mill Pizzeria. The neat thing about the shop is that a lot of them are made in their own kitchen and they allow you to sample the chocolate they use. In addition, they have imported chocolate (that was way too dark for me) but still interesting to check out and try.

Amazing hand made chocolates. You could also get some ice cream, cookie… or wine. Not to mention, an education on quality chocolate and the whole process from the owner, Brian.
Walk towards the back of the store for your coffee or espresso fix. Coffee brewed just right with a lovely deck out back to relax with your cup of joe!
Most definitely a worth while stop! I’ll be back for sure.