Godiva Chocolatier

First time visiting a Godiva store and it was a great and tasty experience. Sometimes quality cost. The door person was very nice and gave me two pieces upon entering and two pieces when I exited. Added along with my purchase I was a happy camper.

Godiva hot chocolate is the best hot chocolate I have ever tried. The flavor is very rich and chocolatty, and the consistency is creamy.

Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate. I am a fan of their Hot Chocolate Powder, Chocolate covered Strawberries, Hazelnut Truffles and the Bars. It is a little pricey, but when they have a sale is best to buy certain items. Also, Macy’s sells a lot of Godiva Chocolates and they are always on sale.
The people in here are always friendly and helpful.

New OREO shake aka chocolixir (old school name) available. I do not recommend it at all. Good concept, bad delivery.
#1 — its super creamy and sweet, its like if you took all the white stuff from 100 oreos and scraped it into a blender with a cup of milk and ice and turned it into a milkshake. Its almost cloyingly overpowering.
#2 — the oreo chunks on top is the bad delivery. It looks good. But then you get a typical size straw. And when you start slurping away, eventually the chunks sink down and get lodged at the end of your straw and you spend the next 5 second sucking against an immovable object and you end up with a weird sucking face and a vacuum in the straw. That is until you let go and your saliva that was building up in your mouth while you were sucking against the lodged Oreo cookie chunk at the end of the straw will slip into the straw to mix with your shake. YuM.
#3 — weekday deal from 3−5pm buy1get1 50% off shakes.
#4 — buy 5 shakes, get the 6^th free stampcard.
I prefer the collectible tumbler promos to buy5get1free. though with the buy1get1half off is really not bad.

The pricetag that comes along with the delights here really makes me wonder how any Godiva chocolate is still open. But can I deny that the chocolates here are good? Of course not!
QUALITY:
Chocolates are rich, creamy in texture, and sweet. But it’s not a sweet that will overload your stomach into wanting to hurl, but just enough to really hit the spot. I’ve tried various of truffles here, and each of them have their distinctly good.
The chocolate covered fruits? They’re good, but the fruit quality varies but they’re not always perfect (recurring sourness, still not ripe, etc.) I still like them, just that I wouldn’t pay for them ever when the fruits would be then the highlight and not the chocolates.
Overaaaaalll, I live too far from here and this store in particular has always been kind of nice to come and go. Their inventory doesn’t really ever run out and they have plenty of things around to look at /​purchase.

Stopped in and decided to buy a few different chocolates. If you love truffle, this is the place for the creamy deliciousness that Godiva chocolates provide. The gentleman that helped me offered a few sample to try and informed me about a few of the chocolates. I opted for a dark chocolate turtle, a milk chocolate turtle and a chocolate bark with almonds. All in all the chocolate is good, but at $ 50 a pound I might be more inclined to spend my money at See’s.

Godiva entices customers to come into their store by giving out samples of their chocolate caramels. When did Godiva start doing this little trick? Well, I’m not complaining… Just wish they did it sooner.
I love coming in here just to browse. But I don’t think the employees like that very much. They are constantly asking, «Can I help you find something? Are you doing okay?»
Yes, I’m fine. I just want to browse! So now i feel bad if I don’t buy anything.
Yeah this place is so small so you can’t «hide» from the employees’ eyes. They’re constantly watching you. It makes me feel very uncomfortable…

Just in time for Valentine’s Day or whenever you have a chocolate Jones you can’t shake, Godiva Chocolatier is there to give you your fix.
Look, you know they sell great chocolate, so I don’t need to get into that. (And to all the haters complaining that it’s too expensive — if you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it anyway.)
I’ll just say that this location in the Mission Viejo Mall has awesome customer service. They’re knowledgable, friendly and helpful. Good service goes a long way — even in a candy store.
One last thing: if you do find yourself coming here a lot, it might behoove you to join their Godiva Club. It doesn’t cost a thing and you get a free chocolate every month.

I think this place is great. I’m not sure why people freak out over the pricing of the strawberries when the price is shown in the display. Godiva is a luxury brand chocolatier, of course it will be expensive. You wouldn’t walk into a Louis Vuitton and expect to find a $ 50 hand bag. And a lot of people don’t understand that the strawberries there are freshly dipped every day using a unique technique that ensures the chocolate to dry properly and evenly. But of course the ordinary person with no knowledge of the brand wouldn’t take that into consideration.
Yes, Godiva is very pricey, but there are some great products that are less expensive. I always get a Cookies N’ Cream bark and it never lets me down. its a decent size and its about $ 10, but worth every cent. But when I feel like getting something small while on a tight budget, I just go for the Godiva Gems which are roughly 70 cents a piece.
I wouldn’t «ban» Godiva just because the strawberries are expensive, when there are so many other good things. You just have to use your eyes and look before you buy.

I am bias because I use to work here, but this place is kept clean and organized! Don’t be mad because the dipped strawberries are too pricey, you should know that the items here aren’t cheap by any means. It’s much less crowded than the south coast plaza location and they always have free samples, so why not stop by! :)

So I’m walking through the Shops at Mission Viejo with my son (I know this location says San Juan Capistrano, but the address is actually the Godiva in the Shops at MV). We were walking peacefully through the mall just after Christmas. We were spending some quality time so I thought I’d make my son happy and buy him a chocolate covered Strawberry — since we could see them making them through the window.
We walk into Godiva and I order 3 Chocolate Covered Strawberries. One for me, one for him, and one just because. She gets them out, puts them in the bag and I hand them to my son. She rings them up and says, «That will $ 19.50». I gasp for air. «For three strawberries!!!» I ask. «Yes» she says. I regretfully hand her my debit card.
In hindsight, I should have said forget it. I didn’t because I didn’t want to be like that! I’m sure you’re wondering, were they big? Were they delicious?
No. No, no and no. They were ok. DEFINITELY not worth anywhere NEAR $ 20!!! We’re talking THREE MEDIUM SIZED STRAWBERRIES!!!
I have banned godiva forever and it depresses me when I think about it.

Okay I use to work at this place when it first opened up. The manager was horrendous and disgusting. If you only knew how your chocolate was being handled! Hopefully she has been fired and kicked off the continent. A lot of immoral things going on. Despite that… I will say the chocolate is pretty good. A little too rich so you can’t have too many at once. This could be a good thing because you don’t want to eat chocolate non-​stop! ^_^
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The people who work here aren’t the most competent or good at sales. They are sort of nonchalant and inattentive. I only go here once in a while depending on my mood/​need for the Chocolixir! Yum Yum. Sometimes they run out of the powder here, which is ridiculous I think. Nonetheless the drink is great and outrageously priced. It’s 12 oz. for $ 4.75 A rip off but d@mn it. it tastes good! ^_^