Chocolatier Sève, Chocolatier in Lyon, France
Chocolatier Sève is a chocolate and confectionery shop located at 29 quai Saint-Antoine in Lyon, offering handmade chocolates, pralines, macarons, marzipan fruits, and florentins. The shop has a workshop on site where the chocolates are prepared, and a small museum called MUSCO that presents the chocolate-making process.
Richard Sève and his partner Gaëlle took over a pastry shop that had been running at this Lyon address since 1905, when they bought it in 1991. Richard had earned his certificate of mastery that same year, and the couple gradually focused the shop on chocolate and local confectionery traditions.
Chocolatier Sève is closely tied to Lyon's tradition of pralines, small candies with a shiny sugar coating around a nut, made by hand in the shop. Visiting the store also means discovering the MUSCO, a small space that traces the journey of cacao from bean to finished chocolate.
The shop is a short walk from the Cordeliers metro station on line A, along the riverbank in central Lyon. It is wheelchair accessible and opens most days of the week, including Sunday mornings, though it closes on certain public holidays.
Richard Sève travels regularly to cacao-growing regions to select the beans used in the workshop, a practice that is less common among urban chocolatiers. The shop also runs hands-on chocolate-making workshops open to visitors who want to try the craft themselves.
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