Schakolad Chocolate Factory

I love the chocolate here. Although this place is pricey, I believe that you get what you are paying for. I usually like to get the dark chocolate almond bark or the dark chocolate toffee. A lot of people love their chocolate covered red velvet cake pieces, but I am not too crazy about it.
Great customer service. I really like the staff at this location.
The décor is very outdated and the molded chocolate pieces on display does not help either. But don’t let the dreadful décor deter you from giving this place a try.

I am literally obsessed with their red velvet chocolates! It’s always freshly made, the entire place looks, smells and tastes delicious. I kinda stopped buying grocery-​brand chocolates since discovering them because once you taste the real chocolate, the rest tastes really bad.
I would say definitely try the champagne chocolates and coconut covered chocolates as well.

Best chocolate fountain I have ever had and very nice staff. Very creative treats and chocolates. If in the Crystal City area you have got to check this place out!

This elegant chocolate factory and retail store produces the finest 40-​percent cacao milk chocolate I’ve tasted. It is delicious. This chocolate is lighter than dark (dark runs about 60% and up), and darker than milk (average 28−35%), resulting in one fabulous-​tasting chocolate. Get some!

Very cute shy associate very helpful and nice… Chocolate was UH-​MAZING!!! Chocolate cover strawberries dipped to order only takes a few minutes.

I’ve shopped at Schakolad for years, first at the South Clark Street location, then at the newer shop at 1750 Crystal Drive. I am always impressed with the friendly, knowledgeable customer service and the delicious dark chocolate. I go for the dark chocolate almond bark, but the chocolate dipped strawberries are fantastic, too.

What an amazing find! The chocolates taste amazing and the customer service is impeccable.
On weekends, don’t go to the location near DeVry as that one is closed, but rather go to the smaller one inside the Crystal City underground mall, between Dunkin Donuts and Larry’s Cookies.

As a chocolate fan, since I moved to the US I have been looking for the chocolate fits my taste, yayyy I finally found it!!! This place is amazing, the best customer service with the best chocolate!!!

I recently needed to buy a nice gift and decided on a box of chocolates. After checking Godiva and realizing how ridiculously overpriced and a rip off Godiva can be, I decided to check out Schakolad Chocolate Factory. I was truly amazed by their selections and their very reasonably priced box sets. I am by no means a chocolate lover or even a connoisseur of chocolate. I generally tend to stay away from it, as I am repulsed by it (yes, it’s true). But the lady at Schakolad helped me pick out a really nice set of chocolates. I was able to pick out a really nice box with several types of truffle chocolates — white, milk, dark, mint, coconut, fruity, etc. I got a 15-​piece set for $ 16.
And just recently, I visited Schakolad again to get a box of chocolates as an appreciation gift. They had a specific «Thank You» box, which featured a big piece of chocolate saying «Thank you» (it’s a milk chocolate piece), with a number of other smaller chocolate pieces around it.
Thank you, Schakolad! They loved their chocolate gifts!
I would advise that everyone skip Godiva and go for the real deal at Schakolad Chocolate Factory! And this is coming from a chocolate hater :)

I needed to find a gift for a corporate business meeting in Japan. The staff was extremely helpful and put together wonderful gift bags in a timely manner. I was able to go to the store and pick up my order with no problem. Everyone was very nice and the chocolate is amazing. I would recommend anyone looking for a gift or just a nice tasty treat take the time to visit this shop. Unlike other chocolate stores they offer very unique truffle packaging (you can get your truffles in a edible chocolate box) that is very pretty and very yummy.

The Red Velvet Cake Truffle, Mint, and Salted Caramel are the best! The Mint chocolate tastes just like a smooth Andes mint.
Chocolates average around $ 1 + a few cents a piece whether you are buying per weight or per box. I usually will buy just a couple pieces for a quick fix when I want something sweet. They also have novelty items that are great for gifts — chocolate roses, chocolate-​covered Oreos and strawberries, chocolates shaped like true-​to-​size champagne bottles, footballs, high heels, and even… handcuffs! ;) Fun place to browse; enjoyable sweets even for someone who isn’t a big choco-​lover like myself.

In case you haven’t figured it out by reading my reviews, I pretty much try to model my life after my favorite movies and television shows. Television pretty much raised me so who can blame me?
A trip to the Schakolad Chocolate Factory was my attempt to re-​create the famous «I Love Lucy» scene where Lucy and Ethel get jobs at a chocolate factory.
Nestled deep into the dark cryptic maze of Crystal City shops, I would have not known about this place if it weren’t for my friend who was organizing a group of people together to help complete one of her 40 before 40 bucket list items: «Learn how to make chocolate.»
For a mere $ 25, you get the chance to mold your own chocolate bar and decorate it, as well as hand dip your own truffles after hours. It was a dream come true.
The two-​hour lesson started off with a brief history of chocolate. Blah blah… it might have just well as been white noise at this point… I had no idea what the lady was saying because she was kind of soft spoken and there was a tv in the background that was blaring over her voice. Also, behind her was a big chocolate fountain that was calling my name. When she finally stopped talking she set us loose. Half of our group was sent to the back to make our first chocolate mold while the others were invited to splash around in chocolate fountain city.
In the chocolate mold area, we were given a choice between making a dark chocolate, white chocolate, or milk chocolate bar. To do so, you dip a spatula in a machine of whirring chocolate (God, I wanted to drown myself in there like Augustus Gloop) hold it at a 90 degree angle, and slowly drip it into the mold. Then you place your bar on a vibrating countertop to make sure that all of the air bubbles go away.
We were then given the chance to hand dip our own mint and mocha truffles. The process is actually quite dirty! Let’s just say it involves latex and two fingers. Afterwards the directions are quite simply: «Dip, wiggle, bang, and lick»
The owner was very sweet and a lovely hostess to our gaggle of girls. She is obviously passionate about what she does which makes it all the more fun. This would be a fun place for a Girl Scout field trip or a bachelorette party for a pregnant woman. The chocolate was not the super high quality but it was decent and quite honestly I’m not one to judge. Give me Hershey’s, give me Lindt, give me Valhorna… I’ll eat it all!

Amazing chocolate. The owner is the nicest woman ever, very accommodating, however the workers seem irritated if you ask questions.
This has the most unique designed chocolate.
My favorite: chocolate covered strawberries made to order, and the chocolate covered marshmallows.
Always visit when I’m in town

Schakolad produces good chocolate items, but that’s the crux of the problem. They’re just good. They’re far better than anything that you’d get a drug store or grocery store, but they lack the character of chocolates that you expect from a top of the line chocolatier. In the end most of the things in their variety boxes are molded without a ton of variety.
This isn’t to say that they’re not tasty. They’re delicious chocolates and a great place to go if you’re looking for a quick gift to say thanks or for that special someone, but that’s about it. If you’re looking for something really special, this probably isn’t the right place. However, given the price, which is fairly reasonable, the flourish of the service, and the location in Crystal City, one can’t complain.

Hidden within a catacomb of stores in crystal city but, beats out any chocolate at CVS other than Cadberry. Plenty of decorative items to personalize a gift.

It’s all about the basics at Schakolad: mold chocolate into cute things, or cover edible items in chocolate. Simple, but delicious. It’s a good, old-​fashioned chocolate shop with a friendly owner who’s just as sweet as the confections she makes.
I would never have found it walking around the city, as it’s quietly tucked away inside a nondescript office building (or is it residential? I can’t even tell), but it ended up being one of my favorite discoveries thanks to Groupon.
I’m a sucker for their chocolate-​covered pretzels. They’re not the little skinny pretzels like in bags of Godiva or Snyder’s — the store uses big, thick, salty pretzels. Mmmm. The chocolate-​covered Oreos are always a classic, and the chocolate-​covered graham crackers may be my personal favorite.

This is my quick go-​to for gifts when I’m in a hurry. Also, I like to run here when I need a quick fix for truffles.
The chocolate, overall, isn’t anything special, as its really just molded stuff. The truffles are yummy though.
Things are pricey here for what they are. The woman that runs this place is very nice and always has a warm smile. That tends to soften the blow of the high prices.

Breathlessly, she unwrapped the fanciful cellophane and plumes of silky ribbon to unhat one Shakolad crafted box made wholly of …
C H O C O L A T E.
Happily ensconced and ready, inside lay 9 petite precious truffle squares filled with champagne, raspberry, cappuccino, marzipan, hazelnut and butterscotch ganache. Unimaginable to spare, love kissed and magic imbued, this box came but once that year; gifted from his regard, which she promises to keep safe and forever dear.

Very meh. Most of what Schakolad does seems to be making molded chocolates. Well, there’s the convenience factor but anyone can make molded chocolates; you just need to buy a mold and melt the chocolate yourself with a double boiler. It’s not like they use a very high quality chocolate, either.
They have an assortment of truffles, some of which are very good, others of which are not.
Good for gifts for people you don’t really care about, and for the occasional sweet. But if you’re looking for quality chocolate, look elsewhere.

Go there, get the chocolate dipped Oreo’s, they’re amazing.