By Lisa Zwirn Globe Correspondent,Updated August 5, 2025, 6:00 a.m.
For those who love quality chocolate bars, a shop with an excellent and wide selection is bound to be your happy place. Welcome to Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe. The Harvard Square store opened 75 years ago and carries gourmet foods, wines, and beers from around the world. It’s also a popular Italian deli. But the highlight for many is the variety of distinctive chocolate bars — “a whole chocolate wall,” says general manager Una Donegan — with products representing over two dozen countries and 100 brands. Some of the world’s finest dark and milk chocolate bars are here, including French brands Bonnat and Valrhona, Belgian Dolfin and Neuhaus, Venchi from Italy, Friis-Holm from Denmark, Milkboy from Switzerland, Raaka of Brooklyn, Markham & Fitz from Arkansas, and Compartes, Dick Taylor, and Dandelion from California. Sudbury’s own Goodnow Farms is well represented, as are Taza of Somerville and Lake Champlain of Burlington, Vt. (Prices range from $5 to $20 per bar.) Many brands come in different flavors and styles so you can enjoy your favorites and discover new chocolate makers. As Donegan says, “There really can be a chocolate bar that changes someone’s day.”
Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe has locations at 6 Brattle St., Cambridge, 617-491-8888, and 99 Seaport Blvd., Boston, 617-326-8655. In 2026, a third shop will open on the Street in Chestnut Hill.