Compartes Chocolatier Melrose Place

the chocolate bars are good but not amazing, knock your socks off type of amazing, given it’s $ 10 a piece, $ 13 for the kelly wearstler ones. the packaging is unique and nice.
not sure why the kelly wearstler ones are $ 3 more. maybe that extra $ 3 is the royalty that goes to kelly wearstler? it’s not like more expensive ingredients are used in those chocolates. but i did enjoy the strawberry black pepper one.
i would say the milk chocolate ones are a tad too creamy for my liking and will try the dark chocolate based ones next time.

I can’t overstate how frickin delicious these chocolate bars are! I lose all self control when munching on The Apple Pie (white chocolate bar with apples and pie crust). The price point may not be for everyone, but it’s worth the splurge. My new go to spot for stocking stuffers and party favors.

This is not your ordinary chocolate shop, it is filled with very unique chocolate bars.
My experience was pretty good at Compartes Chocolatiers. I arrived a bit after the opening time to see that they were still not open, so I called their number to find that their sales associate called out and they sent someone to the shop that was coming soon. I did wait quite a while but it was not too bad as they are connected to Alfred’s Coffee, so I got to enjoy some coffee as I waited.
The sales associate arrived and opened shop so I browsed around and bought some chocolate bars. The associate assured me she was sorry for the inconvenience and gave me one of my bars for free! How nice for them to make up for the inconvenience! She also honored my check in for a free caramel which is on the other Unilocal locations search.
My favorite chocolate bar was the white chocolate cereal bar! It was very yummy and I enjoyed the texture of the cereal and the milky white chocolate. The flavors of the chocolate bars are very creative and yummy. Also, very nice customer service.

I have come here several times and I love Compartes chocolate. There is nothing comparable to the originality and amazingness of these chocolates. This location has a semi-​difficult parking situation but it is well worth it. Its sort of pricey at ~$ 10 a bar but it is obvious that they are handcrafted and made with good ingredients. You can literally taste the quality. I highly recommend the Birthday Cake, The Cereal Bar, and the Donuts and Coffee. But if I had to pick just ONE… Birthday Cake!!!

I had bookmarked this chocolatier a while back and wanted to try it someday. but had no idea they opened a location in weho and had stumbled by it as I was walking to my car. I was a little skeptical as I had read mixed reviews on Unilocal,but I am a FAN. The chocolate price is pretty hefty at around $ 10 for a bar of chocolate and even more expensive for the truffles they offer, but if you like chocolate and cool interesting flavors… it is totally worth every single Alexander Hamilton!
Highlights:
— Donuts & Coffee: I can taste the donuts and coffee. I know others have said they couldn’t.but I CAN.
— Japan White Chocolate Matcha Green Tea: I have a matcha obsession and the matcha is so rich in the chocolate… so delicious! I shared this with a bunch of friends and everyone loved it!
— Coney Island Milk Chocolate Waffle Cone: ordered this as recommended by the nice girl working and I ate the whole bar by myself… you can actually taste the crunch waffle pieces (i don’t know how it stays consistently crunchy even as the chocolate melted in my mouth)
I bought a bunch more to gift. so I didn’t get to try the other flavors, but will definitely be back to purchase and try ALL OF THEM!

Walked in for 5 min and ended up with $ 130 worth of chocolate.
Every single one of them was so beautiful. Creative chocolate bars, cute little single pieces of chocolate with interesting flavors. They not only look good but taste great too!

This place is so artsy fartsy! My SO and I were at Alfred’s until we stumbled across this awesomeness. We were so mesmerized by all the pretty looking chocolates that we just had to try one so we decided on the coconut chocolate, which is about a square inch in size and costs about $ 2. I must say… It was pretty amazing despite having to pay for how pretty it is.

For gifting and for the ones who love crisp design & chocolate … you shan’t be disappointed.
Compartés Chocolatier’s flagship store is in Brentwood, and this is her little outpost inside Melrose Place’s Alfred Coffee & Kitchen. The space is cozy and doused in sleek black, a neon sign in the back adds for an electric feel. The tiled black and white floors are so pleasing to my design eye.
I obsessively follow Compartés on Instagram & on their site, and enjoy viewing and tasting their concoctions. They make their organic delights from scratch every morning — I can only imagine how good their kitchen smells.
The choices are diverse, lovingly decorated with themed packaging, have no artificial additives and offer varying amounts of cacao, in dark, white & milk, according to your taste bud preferences. The chocolate originates from, among other places, Bolivia, Thailand, Australia, Botswana, Hawai’i, Egypt, Venezuela, Perú, and Ecuador. The nuts are roasted in Los Angeles.
They’ve been around since 1950. Marilyn Monroe ate these chocolates, as did Frank Sinatra, Churchill and the Kennedy’s.
I adore the poetry and haikus on the back of each box!!! I have something to confess, I never throw away Compartés chocolate bar packaging.
They also make truffles, custom bars, holiday-​themed sets, jams & jars (Raspberry Rose, Apricot Preserves, Peanut Butter Honey Sea Salt), and stuffed fruit. These goodies don’t come with bottom of the barrel pricing, and pricing takes organic, handmade, and gourmet into consideration.
My recent haul to share with the love-​bugs of my life & heart:
*The Campfire Bar has dark chocolate and s’mores — it’s a nice treat for outdoors. The art work is incredible. It’s 72% cacao (dark chocolate). You’ll taste notes of sea salt, cinnamon & honey, too.
*Love Potion is a sexy bar. A tribute to their origins in 1950, it’s a smooth 73% cacao (dark chocolate) with orange peel, pink pepper and slivers of vanilla. It’s gluten free but keep in mind their facility does have contact with dairy, peanuts, soy and tree nuts, so I can’t speak for the safety if you’re highly allergic.
*California Love is another dark chocolate delight, with pretzels, sunflower oil and vanilla nodes. It’s crunchy, salted and a nice balance of sweet and savory. This is a cool gift idea for visitors to California. The box is pink with palm trees, and a sunset orange glow.
*Biscuits & Honey has crunch, honey, dark chocolate and a vintage detail. The box cover has risqué sexy scenes on the cover. I found this out before I nearly gave it to my MIL.
*Istanbul has Turkish hazelnuts, raisins and dark chocolate — as an aside, being Turkish, I’ll add that we actually have a lot of chocolate bars in Istanbul that have raisins and hazelnuts, because both are important parts of the Turkish kitchen, it’s common to find in our chocolate bars, too. So, it’s quite representative of Turkish culture. There’s 73% cacao count in this bar. It’s also gluten-​free.
*Designer Kelly Wearstler paired with Compartés to make a salted caramel bar, subtitled Ingénue | Enliven your senses. The packaging is covered in black and gold lip stains. Butter, cream, sea salt make this bar rich and enticing. It’s contains 67% cacao. Wearstler has also teamed with them to make other bars (Raspberry Coconut, Bijou Chocolate and a Milk Chocolate Crystal Salt Bar).
*Egyptian Treasure is from their World Series and includes rose and pistachio. It’s 73% cacao. The packaging has colorful neon Egyptian royalty.
*Vegan Zen is a delectable treasure for those vegan and gluten-​free. It’s made of 75% dark chocolate, homemade kale crisp, roasted salted pumpkin seeds, spirulina, olive oil, sea salt and sesame. The Vegan Zen bar comes from their Infinite Dream Series. A stunning rendition of a blue Buddha, and Hindu goddesses grace the cover packaging.
*Igotchya Matcha is a 36% cacao white chocolate with green tea. Also, from their Infinite Dream Series, this bars packaging honors ancient Samurais of Japan.
*The Romantic I is a sweet vixen with almonds. It’s 73% cacao with nodes of vanilla. It’s also gluten-​free.
*Tropical Paradise is from their World Series collection and has pineapple and coconut. It contains 63% of Hawaiian chocolate. It’s gluten-​free.
*Wild Cocoa contains 80% single origin cacao from Bolivia. Rich, fragrant and luscious. You only need small bits to enjoy.
*Donuts & Coffee tastes and smells exactly like that!!!
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Ending bits:
The location is perfect. You can have a chocolate snack, and then afterwards /​or at the same time enjoy Alfred’s Coffee. Alfred’s makes amazing drinks, of all sorts — from lattés, drip, and pressed juices, et al.
Because they are small-​batch, 100% L.A. handmade they often sell out of flavors. You can sign up to be alerted when the flavor of your choice returns.
My next to-​try flavors include Lavender Dark, Popcorn Milk, Thailand, and the Trail Mix bar.

Delicious bite sized chocolates in any flavor you can imagine to enjoy with your Alfred Coffee. yum.

After stocking them on Instagram for the longest time, I finally had a reason to go for Valentine’s day. As a huge donut fan, I had to get the donut and coffee bar. It was good, but the star of my purchase was the california love. Pretzels inside dark chocolate, it amazing. And the BF got my some hazelnut love nuts and they were amazing as well

Cute and hipster chocolate place connected to Alfred Coffee. Taking a peruse with amazing Alfred’s coffee in-​hand and strolling through an art gallery of chocolate was fun!
They had custom art for each chocolate bar. The flavors were also interesting, ranging from chocolate bars incorporating lucky charms, waffle bits, and cocoa nibs. But like any art gallery, the featured pieces are at skyrocketed prices. At almost $ 10 a bar, it makes you uneasy picking out too many.
We picked out a milk chocolate bar with waffle cone bits and a dark chocolate bar with cocoa nibs. The dark chocolate bar with cocoa nibs was a clear winner (also because I prefer dark chocolate).

Let me start by saying that I go out of my way to find the positive in people. Good, now that we got that clear I will share my comments about my first and last experience at Compartes in West Hollywood. With Valentine’s Day upcoming I was searching for something wonderful and original for my sweetheart. I saw an article in the LA Times that featured unique chocolate gifts for Valentine’s Day. Chocolate dipped Oreo’s with colorful hearts on them caught my attention. I called Compartes immediately and placed my order, game them my credit card number to secure the order, and told them that I’d be by in person to pick up my package. When I went this morning to pick up my order, I was disappointed to see that the store didn’t open as they were supposed to at 10. When the young lady finally got there at 10:15, there was a line of people waiting to place or pick up orders. There was not a hint of an apology for being so late. When it was my turn, I told the young lady that I was there to pick up my pre-​ordered Oreo’s. She said that she didn’t have anything there that was pre-​ordered. I gave her the name of the gentleman who I placed the order with and she said she would have to call him. All of this was spoken with a snarky… you’re wasting my time type of attitude. She called and said his line was busy. She told me to wait while she helped several customers in line. When she called the guy back, after a long phone conversation, she said, in that same snarky screw you kind of tone, that, yes, my order had been pre-​ordered but not pre-​paid. That didn’t make alot of sense, but at that point I just wanted my chocolates and didn’t want to engage her in any more dialog than necessary. I gave her my credit card, completed the transaction, and was handed my chocolates… without a smile or a thank you… or anything. I can only hope that my significant other enjoys her chocolates. I will spare her the gory details of what it took to get them for her.

I am absolutely obsessed with the dark chocolate bars here. They chocolate is so smooth and velvety and the mix of ingredients they put in each bar is absolutely perfect. I really look forward to what new flavors they are gonna bring out!

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Found out about this chocolatier company from a YouTuber who talked about this brand and apparently bought $ 300+ worth of chocolate from here. I was curious to try it, so my friend and I came here to check it out!
Compartes is located inside Alfred Coffee on Melrose Place. Street parking only. Look for the tables with the umbrellas outside that say Alfred and Compartes on them! You have to walk inside and downstairs to the back of Alfred to get to the Compartes. Kinda weird location. Their stand alone store is in Brentwood.
The wall of chocolate bars here is really awesome to look at. The packaging in general of all of their products is stunning! I really love the creative patterns they have for their chocolate bars. They are expensive, starting around $ 8.95-$ 9.95 each and some of the nicer ones are a few dollars more. I browsed their website before visiting and was disappointed to find out that they were sold out of a lot of their flavors, but I think it’s because they are really running low on product because of the holidays. My friend went to the Brentwood location and said they had boxes and boxes of all of the online orders waiting to get picked up. I definitely will have to come back in a month or so when they aren’t so swamped with orders!
They also have boxed chocolates like truffles and whatnot. And at the cash register they have a glass display case with more single piece chocolates. I was mostly looking for their chocolate bars so I didn’t end up trying any of those.
Overall I definitely enjoyed looking at all of the chocolate bars and can’t wait to try them! I have not tasted them yet, but I have heard great things about them and people said it’s so expensive because you can tell how high quality they are. They have beautiful photos on their Instagram, so be sure to check them out! Beautiful presentation!

If you love art and design… especially artisan chocolate tasting, a visit to Compartes is a must!
The selection of chocolate flavors is mind boggling. I had trouble selecting a flavor. I went with the «donut & coffee» flavor because I love coffee and the package design.
I also selected two truffles to taste. The chocolate was OK. I only tasted milk chocolate in the chocolate bar and truffles were good, but not something I’d drive out of my way for.
Located behind Alfred Coffee, both are places with a hip, but friendly vibe and a spot I would visit often if I lived closer to the Melrose Place district.

I’ve always driven to Compartes Brentwood to get what I consider, by far, the best chocolate in LA. Possibly the world ;)
The new Melrose Place location has the same amazing chocolate (new flavor combos like Coffee and Donuts in a chocolate bar! Cereal bar w/​white chocolate! Soo many awesome, delicious flavors), plus the beautiful artistic designs on all the truffles, AND the new location within Alfred Coffee is stunning and a great place to hang out with coffee and chocolate
I love hanging out at Alfred and I LOVE I can get compartes chocolate there now. Compartes is seriously my favorite Xmas gift. So glad they’re in West Hollywood now!

The new Compartes Chocolatier shop inside Alfred Coffee & Kitchen is an exciting new addition to the ultra hip coffee shop and Melrose Place as a whole.
The graphic B&W chocolate boutique is a jewel of colors and flavors. Their famed chocolate bars line the walls, such as Egyptian Treasure (rose pistachio), Donuts & Coffee, Istanbul (dark chocolate Turkish hazelnut raisin), Cereal Bowl (white chocolate cereal).
There’s a beautiful case of handmade truffles atop a white marble bar. Kona coffee, smoked sea salt, pear cheese??? Oh why yes please. Today’s samples on offer were the Istanbul and the Cereal Bowl bars. Truffles are $ 3 each, $ 5 for 2 or boxes of 10 or 20.
Love the new location, the décor, the friendly staff. Brentwood is lovely but just a tad too far to visit on a regular chocoholic basis. Come here for a dose of chocolate magic.