Honest Chocolate

Honest Chocolate is the bean-to-bar project of Anthony Gird and Michael de Klerk, who made their first bars in a home kitchen and never industrialised the process: organically grown Tanzanian cacao, old-school equipment, and dark chocolate with as little between bean and bar as possible.

Their Wale Street chocolate café has poured house-made truffles, tarts and thick hot chocolates since 2014 — with a vegan range that converts sceptics — and a second café in Kalk Bay extends the reach without changing the craft.