Bon Bon’s

It must be fun working here — everyone coming in Bön Bons (including myself) walk in with the same wide-​eyed expression and slightly guilty sounding nervous giggle :)
Walls of psychedelic sweet wonderfulness, chocolates the size of golf balls (literally), and flavours that will make your mouth love you. Personal favourite is the Advocaat Ganache. And the golf ball sized ones.
Lovely staff, heavenly chocolates, and the best feeling of kid in a sweet shop I’ve experienced since I was a kid. In a sweet shop.
It’s in thorntons arcade — oh the irony! Whereas thorntons backwards is pronounced Snot’n’rot — Bön Bons backwards is Snob Nob! It just about sums it up.

I love this little chocolate shop!
I always visit here to find some unusual chocolate or sweetie gifts to give to my friends for birthdays or Christmas. Lets face it… the chocolates here beat a box of roses any day!
The selection is amazing with a huge variedly of different chocolate and sweets from your child hood. It always takes me ages to make a decision as every thing is just so cute that I want to buy it all.
You can select your own individual chocolates to put together or just pick a pre wrapped bag off the shelf, the prices are reasonable considering all the options are so much better than any think you can buy from a supermarket.
Definitely worth a visit even if its just to remind your self of all those child hood sweets.

Now, seriously. Give me some chocolate. But don’t just give me a tacky branded bar that you can pick up from any old supermarket. Give me a divine selection, give me a world of choice, give me a hand-​crafted Belgian delight from a shop that speaks of old-​worlde chocolatiers and the kind of glitter and wonder I used to dream of as a child. Give me Bön Bons.
The Thorntons Arcade is a special street of select shops sure enough, and you’ll find Bön Bons part of the way down. I swear the delightful whiff of sugar makes its way to your nostrils even before you make it there, but you’ll find it easily enough and I challenge you not to enter and find something wonderful.
The counter is filled with delicately displayed delights, truffles and chocolates, slabs and slaver-​worthy surprises. Thank goodness there’s a glass front to ward off the inevitable drool pools. Along the walls are apothecary-​esque shelves holding all manner of chocolate drops, boiled sweets, candy treats and honeycombs. The shop itself, illuminated in a golden sheen, is a treasure trove of sugary delight.
I wanted to grab some chocolate treats and the staff could not have been more helpful, hand selecting each truffle then wrapping and adorning the packet personally with such patience and care! With some free samples on the counter I had plenty to keep me occupied as they packaged my delicious fare. It’s a dangerous game to leave out the complimentary treats, of course I ended up purchasing a packet of the sugared nuts that I’d been munching. Yum.
It’s a special place and certainly one I shall visit again and again. Prices are high end, but if you’re as sensible as I am and only eat chocolate once in a while, you’ll feel so much nicer treating yourself here than with some sub-​standard quick-​fix ‘chocolate’ bar. Love it!

Bön Bons of Leeds is yet another delectable glass fronted chocolate box haven. If your other half has a penchant for delightful chocolate indulgences and you’re not in the mood for going down the Thornton’s route for fear of rebuke that you have no imagination, then Bön Bons is worthy of a dip in. Stacked from floor to ceiling with gorgeous tightly compacted tasty looking and tasting treats, you really can’t go far wrong in taking a chance on Bön Bons. Mix and match, create a box, buy a pre made one, pay as little or as much as your budget allows. Sumptuous, fresh and delicious would be the three key words I would use to describe the fancies trapped in this lovely place. Trapped, because you just have the supreme urge to set them free, free, straight in to your mouths to tickle the tastebuds. Lucky for them all their lovelies are hidden behind glass cases, as even the most upstanding citizen would find it hard not to pocket Bön Bons chocolates should they be exposed.
Gifts, Treats or self indulgences. Sold.

Walking into Bön Bön’s, it feels like walking into some kind of fantasy land, one that would not be out of place in a Roald Dahl story.
The absolutely fantastic displays of sweets of all sorts and chocolates would even make those who don’t have a sweet tooth fold. With individually wrapped measures of sweets, rather than a pic n’ mix affair, it is a bit more of an upmarket sweetshop, rather than those from ones childhood.
Its the kind of shop that makes you feel like the owners had fullfilled a childhood dream in opening it, after setting about a profession they weren’t fully into.
It’s magical, and perfect for gifts.

The chocolates from here are — wait for it — A-​M-​A-​Z-​I-​N-​G. Like a mini Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, BonBons in the Queen’s Arcade isn’t exactly cheaper than, er, chocolates — but here really is a case of; you get what you pay for.
Personally, I like my chocolates fruity, though the lady likes praline. We both left happy, with a little bag of ten (so, she got six praline to my four strawberry, lemon and oranges) to keep us happy as we trotted on around the city centre. While the arcade itself looks a bit unwelcoming from the HMV end, don’t hesitate to have a wander down.
Mums, girlfriends, sisters etc will love you for coming here. And girls, if the man in your life’s got a sweet tooth? Go here to indulge him.