My favourite chocolate brand ever. So pleased they export to Australia (Woolworths and Big W) Also, your artisan's are amazing; the apple and white chocolate was my favourite! I go to NZ annually and can never leave without it!
Absolutely loving the new caramel in the Creamy Caramel block!
Well done :) appreciate that you still look to improve existing flavours.
My first experience with Whittaker s was West Coast Buttermilk Caramelised White Chocolate with Gingerbread Biscuit and I am in love. I don t do candy much but this is incredible.
Been buying the 200g bars at Pete's Frootique in Halifax, Nova Scotia for past several years. LOVE the 33% milk chocolate. My favorite chocolate . The dark, mint, coconut, and almond combos are awesome too. Only wish I could find it in Cape Breton now that I've moved.
That chocolate smell is addictive, got to be the best chocolate ever.
Best chocolate in the world love the Dark chocolate Especially the Dark Almond I could eat it all the time actually all your chocolate is amazing keep up the good work
James Henry Whittaker worked in the British confectionery industry at the age of 14 and moved to Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1890. Six years later he started manufacturing chocolate confectionery, selling it directly to customers using More
Amazing but please keep adding dark chocolate recipes!
Love your chocolate enjoyed the fruit and nut flavour
Really good chocolate. But what I like best is that they use cocoa and sugar out of fair trade agreements and they actually roast the beans themselves, which is a rarity nowadays. Both is highly respectable in my view.
Amazing chocolates. Rum and Raisins are my favourite Combination.
Never been to the chocolate factory but the 2 chocolates in the artisan collection are really disappointing.Tried the cardamon as well as the hazelnut,no taste of cardamon no taste of hazelnut in both bars.The apricots and cardamon gave the chocolate a gritty texture.I could not taste either the apricots or cardamon.Either poor ingredients,poor technique,poor chocolate makers or a combination of all.Have tried the lindt bars and those guys really know how to make chocolate even though they are mass produced and not an artisan product.
Also I don't understand why you have rich English pakehas on your TV ads a supposedly proud NZ company.
Called to check if I could take a tour, the receptionist picked and replied rudely , I don t think there any reason for you to come here or that we will ever have a tour in the future,the tone was extremely rude... did not expect this from a Brand that represents us kiwis ....
Lovely place, staffs hopefully there will be store ...good
Best chocolate in the world. Husk is fantastic garden mulch.
Yesterday, got 2 Almond & 2 Coconut at Longo's in Toronto Canada. They are the Best! Longo's only had Peanut Butter as another choice to buy. Have to get all 3 next time!
add more flavours! like cadbury :) cool dude your chocolate is amazing!
Visited a year ago, was hoping for a factory tour. Looking forward to when they do start tours.
Keep up the great work, producing kiwi chocolate in New Zealand and supporting kiwi workers!!!
I have really lovely memories of growing up in Elsdon in th early 1970's, playing @ the park behind Whittakers, the smell of the chocolate & roasted nuts. If you were lucky sometimes a kind worker would come out with a tray of delicious,mouthwatering chocolates which I now know to have been 'seconds' but wonderfully superb anyway. The best gift I got for my 21st was x2 boxes of Whittakers Peanut Slabs. I have lived in Australia for the past 9years
& one of my favourite ads was "Next stop Porirua" So I was amazed to see your new Ad with the Kitchen Goddess Nigella!!! & was that Wellington Railway Station?
You guyz just rock by keeping everything very authentically local. I am so proud to have been raised in Porirua where the world class chocolate is made Whittakers yeahhhhh
Well i had a tour of the Factory wow really professional people and you know the taste! I did took a picture of the place on my other account but i have lost the password to that account. So i well post another one.
Love the chocolate, but disappointed I have not heard back after expressing my disappointment that they had lowered their Fair Trade standards.
Best chocolate. Just be aware that they do not offer a factory shop or any factory tours
The visit of the factory is not possible but the chocolate smells are incredible in the neighborhood. In front of the entrance, the staff is adorable and offers us 4 plates of their delicious mixture! thank you
My favorite chocolate
Very tasty
As a owner of the JH Whittaker & Sons I appreciate the feedback thanks.
We have brought some Whittakers chocolate to our friends in Scotland. They are loving it and trying to make it last. We will be sending them more when we get back to NZ.
Nowhere near as nice as Cadbury or Nestle's. Actually not nearly as nice as most other brands I've tasted. Too sweet and sickly. Would never buy again.
We all know the taste and the staff are so grate and warm!
Manufacturers of the NZ made Whittaker's chocolate brand. Staff is very friendly and factory and site is very clean to keep up with critical hygiene standards.
Have never been to New Zealand but the Whitakers chocolate is the best chocolate ever. I'm addicted!
heaven, it costs me $35 dollars to send 2x chocolate to my daughter in the UK!!! its value there $12 a bar. Its used as Birthday gifts or great bribing Kiwis :o) Every-time a friend goes over to the UK I get them to post a block of chocolate in the UK for my daughter. I wont be able to afford to post it anymore with postage going up :o(
Every chocolate from Whittaker's that I've tried, I've enjoyed as it has been wonderful. Unfortunately they discontinued my favourite - the Dark Chocolate Ginger Block . But I still love their Rum and Raisin as well as their Roasted Almond. 2 pieces of Whittaker's chocolate with my 1 cup of cafe au lait each day gives me great delight !
Home sweet home beautiful crowd, lovely staff, so community and family focused on making the best chocolate and producing it with alot of thought and consideration, pride and passion goes without saying :)
The chocolate is delicious, the owner and the people are friendly and the work atmosphere is also comfortable
I was just outside and smell delicious!
Say no more!mmmmmmmmmm!!
Unfortunately no factory tours because of the compact space inside but its still considered as the best chocolate in New Zealand!
Very disappointing how they treat customers. I'm on their email list and following on Facebook yet I keep getting emails asking me to sign up to the email list. When I called and asked to speak to marketing about this the marketing team made it clear they would not speak to customers and my only option was to not get an email asking me to sign up to the email list was to be removed from the email list. Good chocolate but pathetic marketing and customer relations
