Patrick Roger Chocolatier - Edible Chocolate Sculptures

Patrick Roger Chocolatier - Edible Chocolate Sculptures

Patrick Roger chocolatier is a master chocolatier who fears nothing.

With the opening of his new shop place de la Madeleine in Paris, chocolatier Patrick Roger displays large sculptures. Made of chocolate, of course, depicting an exotic jungle. A true shop-museum! The appeal of the boutique is quite different from that of a classic chocolatery. You come here as much to see the creations and sculptures as to buy and taste chocolate.

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Patrick Roger chocolatier, awarded Meilleur Ouvrier de France

This Meilleur Ouvrier de France is an extravagant and inspired artist. In his quest for excellence, he makes no concessions.

Patrick Roger is particularly known for his monumental chocolate sculptures, often inspired by animals, nature, or characters. The shop therefore functions almost like a small chocolatier art gallery.

Also chocolate candies, gift boxes, and tablets.

You can also discover the very visual work of chocolate candies, gift boxes, and tablets.

The all-flower honey in his caramels comes from beehives installed on the roof of his chocolate factory! His “Couleurs” candies offer subtle combinations. Creamy caramel, verbena, and yuzu for the “Sauvage” slate grey, or caramel, vinegar, and raisin for the “Rafale” buttercup yellow. And why not indulge in the evocative names of “Jalousie”, “Insolence”, “Fantasme”, or “Marie Galante”?

In summary

Magnificent chocolate sculptures. Excellent chocolates. Very good pralines, an exceptional ginger dark chocolate, deadly candied oranges! Expensive, but you must treat yourself to this taste experience.

A chocolate mine in the basement

In the basement, the renowned chocolatier offers a cocoa mine. Tall, dark walls, gilded with fine gold, dotted with the famous "Couleurs" candies scented with lemon-basil from the chocolatier. Soft, rounded shapes and dim lighting enhance the cave-like atmosphere.

If you can’t eat the sculptures, don’t worry. The ground-floor shop offers miniatures of Patrick Roger’s collections!

A chocolate mine first and foremost, but also a treasure trove of shapes, textures, and colors… a showcase for collections of edible miniatures, as well as chocolate, bronze, or aluminum sculptures—a true passion of the chocolatier artist.

Everything is beautiful and delicious

Everything is beautiful and delicious to look at, touch, or taste, because as long as there’s Chocolate at Patrick Roger, there’s Art! The space itself is a cocoon of raw aluminum alveoli, a tribute to eternal nature—and also to bees, which the artist reveres and cultivates not only for their honey, of course, but always with a view to biodiversity so essential to preserving our beautiful and generous planet.

The space is gentle, wrapped in rounded forms, a bit like an oxygen bubble in the heart of the city, a sphere for dreaming and savoring, a planet dedicated exclusively to Art and Chocolate!

Three levels of exhibition

Three levels to marvel, travel, and get lost in the fabulous universe of Patrick Roger. It begins with the mine in the basement of the shop, its walls lined with raw chocolate. Like nuggets, he displays a selection of sculptures in bronze and aluminum with surprising lines.

The first floor is dedicated to the pleasure of tasting and collections of sweets with precious and original flavors. “Here, the entire palette of the chocolatier is expressed.”

To finish on the second floor with the latest creations, sculptures carved and modeled by the master from the very material of chocolate…

A giant “root-tree” spans the space, piercing the floors, emerging from the depths of the earth to reach the light. An army of monkeys seems to watch us, taunt us, inviting us to share in the pleasures of creation!

What you can taste

The range is particularly interesting for an enthusiast looking to discover different textures and origins.

Chocolate candies:

  • Instinct: almond-hazelnut praline;

  • Amazone: lime caramel;

  • Ambanje: plain ganache;

  • Katmandou: jasmine tea ganache;

  • Delhi: lemon-basil ganache;

  • Pistachio marzipan;

  • Vanuatu Ganache 66%;

  • milk chocolates and pralines.

These chocolates are made using, in particular, a Madagascar 65% couverture dark chocolate, specially developed for Patrick Roger with Valrhona.

Current Prices

Some very useful benchmarks for a visitor:

Product

Indicative Price

Madagascar 65% Bar, 85 g

€12

C6 Gift Box – 16 Chocolates

€35

C5 Gift Box – 25 Chocolates

€45

Assortment BR5 – 10 varieties, 485 g

72 €

Assortment BR4 – 10 varieties, 660 g

95 €

Assortment BR3 – 10 varieties, 835 g

120 €

Large gift box C2 – 1.25 kg

180 €

The best choice for a tourist who does not want to buy a large gift box would be:

1. A Madagascar tablet 65% – 12 €
→ easy to carry and allows you to discover the signature chocolate of the House.

2. Gift box C6 – 35 €
→ probably the best compromise to discover several creations: 16 pieces, four textures and four flavors.

3. The C5 Box – €45
→ ideal for a true comparative tasting experience: 25 pieces and five flavour profiles

The Patrick Roger Experience

This isn’t really a place where you sit down to enjoy a pastry like at Ladurée Paris Royale, located about a hundred metres away. It’s more of a chocolatier-artist experience: watch → discover → taste → buy. Enjoy your tasting.

To see nearby

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Also cruise departures for a relaxing moment on the waters of the Seine, available at short distances:

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Patrick Roger Chocolatier - Edible Chocolate Sculptures