Let’s hear it for properly chunky bars

There’s a little shop in the corner of the café, which sells things like scented candles (which are lovely) and also some clothes, cards and bits and pieces. It’s here that I found Up-Up chocolate. These are bright, colourful bars weighing in at 120g for £4.75 a bar.

History shows I’m keen on a chunky bar, there’s something so pleasing and indulgent about them, although there is a place, of course, for the thoroughbred race horses of the chocolate world, bars that are wafer-thin and snap under the merest pressure. Up-Up bars aren’t like that. They are hefty, you could hit someone round the head with one and stun them, but why would you want to do that?

The milk chocolate tends to be in the mid-30% cocoa content range, the dark at 50%. Flavours include Dark Cherry and Dark/Milk Salted Caramel, Dark Espresso, Milk or Dark, Wild Mint, Sweet Orange, and Gingerbread. Tequila and Lime is the most adventurous. All the bars were popular with my testers, but the Dark Salted Caramel was very popular. These bars are a good thing to try if you want to move on from supermarket chocolate, but feel what I sometimes recommend for you is a bit too ‘craft’.