William Curley, Belgravia

The William Curley chocolate empire continues to swell with the opening of the patissier and chocolatier's latest venture in Belgravia. Curley has worked with the best in the business and still advises and supplies chefs including Marco Pierre White, Raymond Blanc, Pierre Koffman and Anton Edelman. This Orange Square shop boasts an incredible chocolate and ice cream counter, a café and patisserie, a specially designed dessert bar, a chocolaty deli for scrumptious baked goods, and a kitchen for chocolate making master classes (where you can do a course and learn how to make truffles or sea salt caramels). Curley was awarded the Best British Chocolatier in 2007, 2008 and again in 2009 by the Academy of Chocolate, and is renowned for his unusual taste combinations which mix chocolate with flavours like rosemary and olive oil or apricot and wasabi. His wife Suzue - who has worked at Claridge's and The Savoy - inserts a Japanese influence with sweet treats like Yuzu filled chocolates and Miso and Walnut biscuits. So, chocoholics who can't face making the trip to Richmond to the inaugural shop now just have to mosey into Belgravia for their sweet fix.