More than a chocolate factory, ChocoSol is also an education centre, production facility, and experimental laboratory that revolves around ethics and sustainability.
If you were to call ChocoSol a chocolate shop, you wouldn’t be lying, but you’d certainly be selling the little homegrown enterprise on Toronto’s St. Clair West Avenue a bit short. Yes, ChocoSol does make and sell some pretty incredible chocolate, but it’s also an education centre, production facility, experimental laboratory and all-around good example of business, ethics, sustainability and creamy, chocolaty goodness co-existing under one roof. “Cacao is more than a sugary treat,” explains ChocoSol’s energetic founder Michael Sacco, biting into a thick bar of his signature 100 per cent cacao chocolate. “It’s the food of the gods.”
ChocoSol does more than ame chocolate goodies, they make it their mission to create a socially-just, equitable and ecological food system. This passion comes through in the line of chocolate bars like the Rusitco, which are stone-ground for about eight hours to build the strong flavour profile.
ChocoSol was originally founded in Mexico, and opened its first store in Toronto in 2006. This shop focuses on the social and ecological aspects of cultivating and making chocolate. The products include chocolate bars, hot chocolate and more.