About Us

We're crazy about chocolate!

It's true - we're Choco Loco - crazy about chocolate! But not just any chocolate - we like the good stuff. We make hand crafted, filled chocolates in Takaka, Golden Bay - Europe meets New Zealand with a contemporary twist.

Our chocolates have zero preservatives, palm sugar, or fake flavour additives and we use fresh ingredients - mostly local and some straight out of our own garden - all within a base of quality hand dipped or moulded Belgian chocolate.

This does mean our chocolates have a shorter shelf life, but we reckon they are so good you’re pretty unlikely to put them in the cupboard and forget them anyway.

Kath

I never used to like chocolate. I grew up in Kenya and my Grandfather used to send chocolate treats from the UK by sea for Christmas. By the time it got to me it had been repeatedly melted on the journey through the Suez Canal. It was soggy, white coated blobs of yuck that I ate anyway. I never really bothered after that.

Then everything changed. In the process of opening Choco Loco I learnt all about Belgian chocolate and tasted all kinds of boutique chocolates made by the growing number of New Zealand chocolatiers. I discovered that I love good chocolate and that’s my aim….. to make really good snappy and shiny chocolates packed full of flavour. I love the range of flavours we have and it’s a good sign when your ‘go to chocolate’ keeps changing. 

Gay

I have always loved chocolate and, truth be told, a little too much. Once started I had a very poor stop button, and zero quality control. So I have had quite a few "Is this wise?" moments along Choco Loco's journey. 

But during the research stage I discovered I could differentiate between quality and mainstream and with rich, flavoursome chocolates my stop button appeared. It seems you don't need a lot of good quality chocolate to feel satisfied!

We produce damned good, tasty chocolates that stand apart from mainstream. Quality not quantity now works for me - who would've guessed!