Krause’s Chocolates

The chocolates here are fantastic! Not only are they delicious, but a great deal as well! A box of chocolates at Krause’s costs about ONE-​THIRD the price (by pound) of a box of Godiva chocolates — but are of BETTER QUALITY. I’ve been buying my family Godiva chocolates for years and years. I recently took a trip to New Paltz and brought back a box of Krause’s for them. They immediately told me they liked the Krause’s better!
To make sure I’m doing my math right, I just check their prices. A one-​pound (16 ounces) box of Krause’s chocolates is $ 15.45. A 36-​piece box of Godiva (at 14.6 ounces) is $ 50. So I wasn’t kidding, Godiva costs more than three time more. Next time I’m in New Paltz, I’m going to bring back more boxes!
Another reason my family liked the Krause’s more is there are many more options for their chocolates. So I was able to put together a box of chocolates with all different types of nut fillings, which my family really enjoyed. And for each chocolate filling, you can get it in either dark or milk chocolate.
Bottom line, if you’re in New Paltz. Do yourself a favor and go to Krause’s!

Krause’s is an unassuming, little shop off of Main Street in New Paltz. For me, that’s why I sort of always overlooked it for a while, so it wasn’t until I was well underway with my undergrad that I decided to stop in for a «quick treat.»
I think I ended up spending somewhere near 40 minutes in there on that first visit, just aimlessly wandering around to take in everything they had — I had no idea that so many characters are available in chocolate versions of themselves. The inside is very charming and has a warm, comforting feel. Like the kind of place where you’d want to escape the cold for 40 solid minutes to avoid doing homework during your senior year.
As I’ve seen other people mention, I love that you can pick and choose from their (huge) selection. I was a broke student and I’m pretty safe with my chocolate choices, so all I ended up buying was some dark chocolate almond bark and coconut clusters. I have this weird, very mild allergic reaction to some milk chocolates that just irritates my throat (mostly things like Hershey’s milk chocolate and cheaper brands), so I usually avoid it and stick with dark. I was really craving that day, though, so I threw my trepidations to the wind and got a few of the milk chocolate coconut clusters and I ended up throat tickle, small coughing fit free!
This is a comfy, classic looking shop with an old time feel. It’s a great place to buy gifts for family members, friends, etc. or to treat yourself and their milk chocolate doesn’t make me want to die =)

On a day trip to New Paltz today we stumbled over this shop tucked away on a side street. Four stars for the staff, he was extremely patient as we decided which pieces to select it took us an exorbitant amount of time! They have a large selection to choose from and are then packaged in a nice box. The chocolate coconut was divine!

This Krause’s is more like the store in Rhinebeck than the stores in Saugerties and Colonie in that it is a bit more bare-​bones. But it’s still Krause quality, and that is never a bad thing. There can be a bit of a wait for help if there’s a lot of people in the store, because it’s usually managed by 1 or 2 people, and the cash register is on the other side of the store from the truffle counter.

Love Krause’s. Have been visiting the Saugerties store for Years. Glad they opened a store in New Paltz closer to where i live. Great Chocolate, Love the Jellies, Chocolate Covered Macadamia nuts. Everything is great. Valentines day they have a Chocolate Heart Shaped box filled with yummy Chocolates. Prices are decent for handmade locally owned chocolatier.

Best chocolates in Ulster County, for many years now — Saugerties and now New Paltz — yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Really good chocolate! I love chocolate (esp dark) but as any chocolate lover knows not all are equal. The quality is excellent without paying Godiva style prices. Huge selection and so creative with there ideas. The truffles are not what I’m use too but they are good. Would be nice if the gave samples. Bought a box of truffles, a bag of dark chocolate with almonds and like ¾ pieces — $ 18 & change, I didn’t think that was to bad.

Variety, quality are the the keywords here.
What I enjoyed most is that they had prepackaged and well priced all sort of dipped into chocolate things fruits along with chocolate so you can give them easily as presents. as well as keep them stashed at home for those movie nights at home.
I chose the pumpkin truffles, while not overly sweet they hit the spot.

Disclaimer: I am a bit of a snob about chocolate and candy in general. I was raised on Irish chocolate, and so a Milky Way just doesn’t do it for me. I won’t eat just anything out of the vending machine.
These chocolates were good. First of all: is it expensive? Well I really didn’t think so. These are not Vosges or Godiva prices. Beyond that, I enjoyed everything I ate, which to me = value. You get to pick what you want out of the case on a chocolate by chocolate basis. So if you hate walnuts, you can avoid them. If you want a box of 20 with raspberry cream centers, you got em. Makes me happier than picking through a box of randoms.
I bought a box of chocolates for my MIL, myself, and some «orange cordials» and some white chocolate break up for my mom. Everybody liked their chocolate, but the orange cordials especially were a big hit. Little chocolate balls with a tiny, crunchy orange flavored center. Like a Terry’s orange but mini, and way better.
They had STAR WARS chocolate shaped bars in here. A Darth Vader. Made of chocolate.
One star off because the woman who rang us up was scowling. I don’t need you to kiss my ass, but can you not make that face?
I’ll be back.

Fairly new to the New Paltz town. It’s a small little chocolate shop right off of main street. There is a really large variety of various types of chocolates there. White, milk, dark, etc. I’ve had the coconut candies which were delicious. Personally, it’s a bit pricey for my taste. The quality of the products are excellent and carefully made that’s for sure.
If you have a sweet tooth and are a huge chocolate lover, check this place out.

There are two foods of which I consider myself the world’s foremost critic: Caramel and nougat. I am not sure if the people at Krause’s have dabbled in nougat, but they have absolutely nailed caramel. They make a sea salt and caramel chocolate that actually gets me high.
I guaranty that the individual who gave a bad review plowed down like fifteen chocolates and then went on Unilocal in a desperate effort to reclaim a few pieces of her shattered pride. That’s the only way it makes any sense to me.

Awesome location, of course the best chocolate I have ever eaten and I wish I was a college student now because I would be in Heaven everyday,

Normally, I like any kind of chocolate, but for some reason, Krause’s didn’t really do anything for me. The chocolate wasn’t that rich — it was not packed with flavor. Kind of on the dull side for me. If I am going to spend the money and the calories on chocolate — it better be pretty damn good. This however, was not… sorry