French Broad Chocolate Factory & Cafe

Our Chocolate Factory Cafe is open every day with an assortment of baked goods, bonbons, and chocolate, along with coffee drinks, bottles of wine, and ice cream. We offer chocolate factory tours, too! Head to our website and click "TOURS" in the top banner to book your spot.

French Broad Chocolate Factory & Cafe is a chocolate shop in Asheville, North Carolina. It is listed at 821 Riverside Dr #199, Asheville, NC 28801, which places it among the local businesses of Asheville that residents and visitors turn to when they need this kind of service close by. Google also lists it under cafe, chocolate shop, warehouse, which is worth knowing if you are comparing several options in the area.

American bakeries range from wholesale operations that supply restaurants to neighborhood shops that sell bread, pastries, cookies and cakes over the counter, and many of them also pour coffee. Bagel shops boil and bake on site and sell out of favorite flavors by late morning; donut shops open before dawn and are often family-run; patisseries and cake studios take custom orders for weddings and birthdays and usually need one to two weeks' notice. Ice cream parlors, gelato shops and frozen yogurt bars are seasonal in the northern states and year-round in the South and on the West Coast. Prices are posted per item, by the dozen or by the pound, and most shops now take cards and mobile payment.

Hours are published for 7 days a week. The most common schedule is 10:30 am–6 pm. Hours in the United States do change around federal holidays and long weekends, so a quick call before a special trip is sensible. You can reach French Broad Chocolate Factory & Cafe at (828) 348-5187; calling is usually the quickest way to ask about availability, prices or directions. More information is available on its website, frenchbroadchocolates.com.

Customers rate it 4.8 out of 5 on Google across 1,629 reviews, placing it among the better-regarded chocolate & candy shops in Asheville.

Asheville is in North Carolina, in the Southeast, where summers are long, hot and humid, winters are mild, and afternoon thunderstorms and the hurricane season from June to November can change plans at short notice. Getting around Asheville is easiest by car; street parking is metered in busy downtown areas, and most suburban businesses have their own lot. Ride-share apps such as Uber and Lyft operate across North Carolina's larger cities, and public transit varies from extensive to minimal.

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