Ghiradelli Chocolate Company

Without question this place has the BEST ice cream sundae I’ve ever had. A friend of mine who used to live in the area told me I had to come here during my stay in Miami. Needless to say I was not disappointed, just looked at the attached picture. Totally worth the thousands of calories ingested.

The BEST chocolate chip cookie EVER!!! And I know chocolate chip cookies!
Haven’t tried the ice cream, but I care nothing for it. The cookie is enough to do me in!
It’s big with the right amount of sweetness… and gooey. And the gooeiness applies to both the actual chocolate chip and the cookie batter. Plus, the fact that they warm it up for you makes it perfect.
Think of me when you bite into the goodness. You’ll thank me!

BEST PLACE EVERRRRRR.
Seriously. I love everything here! It smells like diabetes!(no offense to anyone’s with diabetes) Its amazing sugary goodness in a lovely two story building! Sometimes I regret eating this because I usually always come after im full from a meal on Lincoln Rd. Next time ill go on a empty stomach.Yum.

This busy ice cream shop offers a great variety of coffees and sweets.
Located in the heart of Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, it attracts many people of all kinds, from locals to tourists.
The ice cream, shakes and chocolates are great! The only problem is when you are ordering coffee drinks… you would expect a hot cup of coffee, but by the time their barista makes it and places it on the stand for the server to serve… it is sooooo busy, when the server comes around to serve it, the coffee is already cooled. Coffee is the only downfall at this location…
I suggest the cold stuff… for a creamy sugary fix!

Oh ghiradelli,
You are definitely somewhere i would go on a cheat day. The best thing about you is the free samples you always have when coming in. This place is always full of people on weekend nights so it might be hard to find a table. Best time to come is during the winter and get a hot chocolate :)
Do order and try one of the sundaes. they are amazing and big enough to split with someone else.

Its all about the milk chocolate fudge.
yes, this is a tourist trap, and its always packed and service is horrible.
but i’m in love with the hot brownie sunday… what can I say, for good fudge ill handle the rest.
parking isn’t easy if you are going on a weekend. try parking on 17^th st.

Well the fall and winter seasons are here… the best weather in Miami. During cold weather Ghiradelli one of the best place to seating outdoor and grab some hot drink with pastry :) then enjoying the outdoor with cande and nice weather. Can’t wait to come back again during cold season to enjoy my hot coffee or hot chocolate :)
During summer times I prefer seat indoor since I hate to get sweat, I will more enjoying my ice cream indoor with AC :)
I love the chocolate also :)

Dear Giradelli,
Ohhhh How I want to love you because in San Francisco I fell in love. The problem with this location is not the ice-​cream, or the chocolate or the brownies because well… it’s Giradelli and it melts in your mouth, oh so sweet goodness. The problem with this location is the space. You have an upstairs yet the place is packed and there is no where to sit and the up stairs is CLOSED! What the Feck? I don’t get it… Why have an up stairs if you don’t use it? This wasn’t my first time here either, so I know that the up stairs is either barely or NEVER used… I don’t think I would go out of my way to have you and although I love Giradelli, the service is slow and the space is minimal… We are on LINCOLN Road people… we need more space!
xo,
kristin nicole

I know you can get Ghiradelli’s in most cities but I usually don’t have such decadant desserts in the middle of the day. We had the chocolate dipped waffle cup sundae with extra hot fudge!
all I can say is delicious!!!

So disappointing. My wife had an iced latte with a double shot that was so weak we questioned if it even had one shot in it. I had the peanut butter sundae which, honestly, was terrible. The ice cream was meh at best and the peanut butter barely had any flavor. I ate less than half. For this we paid $ 14. Fail.
I gave two stars for the service, which was prompt and friendly, but the food is 1 star at best. I would recommend avoiding this place.

I am not a fan of chocolate so I never really come here. Our daughter loves their Rocky Road ice cream, All five of us came here after dinner the other night. This place gets packed with people. We were lucky enough to grab a table and it took a little while for a waitress to come take our order but once she arrived, she was very nice.
All of us ordered various items. I got a scoop of the rocky road ice cream to check it out. It was good but I was not blown away by no means. I must say I do prefer soft serve and preferably yogurt so this could be why I was not in heaven over this treat.
Everyone else seemed to appreciate what they ordered. Service was good.
Prices for most items I find to be high.
Cool place if you like chocolate or ice cream.

A Ghirardelli Sundae is a thing of beauty but when served with a side of attitude, it can leave a taste of bitterness in your mouth. This review is not really a review of my sundae but of the outside seating service at this Ghirardelli.
After a long day on Lincoln Road, we decided to end the day on high note… or so we thought. How could you go wrong with a Ghirardelli chocolatey delight? well, you can when your server is arrogant and has no sense of humor. It must’ve been around 9ish when we sat at one of the outside tables. It took a while until our server — whose name I shall keep private for fear of employer retaliation — showed. When she did, we put in our order, the banana split with hot fudge, the whole deal. My friend decides to make a joke and say «she’ll have a flan, please» and laughs, our server, with obvious smiling-​muscle atrophy, replies dry and uppitily, pointing at the sign «As you can see, this is Ghirardelli, we do not serve flan here.» Wow, really? REALLY?!
Needless to say, the sundae was delicious but if I ever come back here, I’ll order inside in order to avoid the rudeness of the server outside. I can have a perfectly delicious sundae with good, friendly service somewhere else.

Coffee drinks so sweet, your throat hurts. We each got either a mocha or a specialty drink (I opted for the autumnal pumpkin spice hot chocolate). Each drink was not only made of about 25% syrup, but there was about a third of a cup of thick whipped cream on the top. I love sweet and fatty things, but this was so over the top that it was actually non-​edible. We even ordered a plain black coffee to cut our drinks, and it still wasn’t enough to make it go down.
It’s like a cup of obesity and diabetes.

Nice service.
Always very nice.
The free cups of water are too small… water is necessary because of the richness of the chocolate.
Great to start the experience with free chocolate upon entering the store.
Brownie sundae with Dark Chocolate Fudge is OMG (that is my fiancée’s interpretation).
The cookie is nice, warm and über-​sugary/​buttery.
Where you are coming from in the world, make sure that when you are in Lincoln Road’s Ghiradelli outpost, don’t take too many photos. It just wouldn’t be fair to your loved ones when you get home, «check out what I ate!» Mmmm-​mmm, just not fair at all.
Delicious.

Chocolate freebies! Please tell me you are not tempted too?
When I first ventured inside Ghirardelli and was handed a free square of chocolate my eyes started to shine like in those animé… I looked up to the sky: «Thank you Lord»
Let’s rewind! Free chocolate= very nice =me very happy.
Ghirardelli is both a chocolate boutique and a «choco-​restaurant» so you can either eat the chocolate now… or later. I usually just sit at a table outside and order the signature hot chocolate and the signature hot brownie. Chocolate overdose is what I come here for!
Delicious chocolates and yummy ice cream sundays. I like all their chocolates: caramel or peanut butter filled, peppermint, pecan … a little piece of delight in my mouth.
The service is good but the waiters get overwhelmed
True the ice creams are overpriced but they are sooooo gooood!

If you like Ghiradelli this is a great place to stop in for your chocolate craving. They usually have a number of «specials» if you care to buy chocolates for others — still not cheap, but hey it’s Ghiradelli’s! They usually give some free samples and have a cute little soda fountain where you can buy decadent parfaits & the like. Service is a little hit or miss… sometimes they are sweet like their candy other times they have an attitude… Nice place to stop if you have a sweet tooth and are on Lincoln Road.

We were hankering for something sweet in the late afternoon on Lincoln Road. You’d think Ghiradelli would be up to the task. Alas, no.
We wanted a chocolate chip cookie. They appeared to be in a big jar by a cashier, so we went up and asked for one, but were told to go to a different cashier in the back. That cashier agreed, after a very long wait, to sell us a cookie, but revealed that the cookies were frozen and would have to be heated up.
Yuck, but all right. The heating-​up, it turned out, had to be done by the overworked folks at the coffee bar, who proceeded to plop our cookie in the microwave, then forget about us, then persistently ignore us when we tried to retrieve our microwaved prefrozen cookie from them.
Finally, we did, ready for the payoff. Double yuck. The cookie had basically no structure, probably owing to its being a hockey-​puck-​shaped lump of frozen dough stuck in the microwave for a while. Nor did it taste good. I like my desserts with plenty of salt, but this one was too salty. We threw it away after two bites.
I’ve enjoyed my massively caloric chocolate drinks and ice cream at other Ghiradelli locations but this experience (literally) left a bad taste in my mouth.

Chocolate on Chocolate double Chocolate — I can’t live without Chocolate So Chocolate in any form is excellent for me — and Ghiradelli has all the best kinds of Chocolate in the Universe.
Too bad the service is lacking in this store– But the Location, product and selection here is simply unbeatable —
Get the service down and more stars will be bestowed upon you.

I think this Ghiradelli location deserves a 4^th star, just for having someone out in front of the place at least a few nights per week, handing out free squares of chocolate to passersby.
I’ve stopped here on a few occasions to purchase chocolate — the last time it was to grab a hot fudge sundae. We’d had dinner on Lincoln Rd. and strolled around for a bit, I wasn’t quite full and was in the mood for something sweet; A sundae from place definitely hit the spot!

I must agree that the staff has the «dead behind the eyes» glaze that is so common on Lincoln Rd. Yes, the place has no spirit. Its so UGH.
The chocolate is Ghiradelli though and still the same quality. The ice cream sundays are way overpriced for sure, and maybe really just a sunday like any other. I am not TOO impressed with it.
If you need to buy chocolate as a gift or for yourself its all good. Looking for an amazing sunday maybe not.