Theo Chocolate Factory
Venue Type: Store
- Hours: 10 am - 6 pm
- Neighborhood: North Seattle, Fremont
- Parking Details: Street Parking
Theo produces premium organic and Fair Trade specialty chocolate.
We sell all of our products plus a few special chocolate surprises at our retail store, which is open seven days a week from 10am to 6pm.
Our 3400 PHINNEY CHOCOLATE FACTORY offers public tours 7 days a week. We will entertain you with the story of cacao, including the extraordinary transformation of the cacao fruit into what we know and love as chocolate and the social and environmental issues relating to cocoa and cocoa farmers. Best of all, you will try all of our amazing products during your tour experience!
Public tours are held Monday through Thursday at 2pm and 4pm and Friday through Sunday at 10 am, 12, 2, and 4 pm. Tours are $6 per person, ages 1 and older.
Please note that our factory usually operates Monday – Friday, and while you will most likely see machinery operating during the week, we cannot guarantee what you will experience on any given day as our production schedule varies.
PLEASE CALL TO MAKE A RESERVATION! (Our tours are very popular and we don’t want you to be disappointed.) CALL (206) 632-5100 to make your reservation, and for information on extended tour schedule during the holidays.
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Theo Chocolate Factory
3400 Phinney Ave. N
Seattle, WA 98103
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Comment by: Maria Christensen
Theo Chocolate Factory
If chocolate is divine, then a piece of Theo chocolate is God**. I swear to Theo that while savoring a morsel of heaven I momentarily saw the meaning of life. In technicolor. As the chocolate faded so did the insight, but I figure if I just steadily eat fig and fennel truffles and bars of bread & chocolate I'll eventually end up in a white robe on a mountaintop sending supplicants out in search of Theo Chocolates.
The tour of the factory, for $5, is a great deal and THE perfect way to spend an hour on a rainy Saturday afternoon. You learn everything about the process, from growing and gathering to conching and cooling. (You should have seen Mitzie's eyes light up when they handed us flow charts). You get to sample chocolate along the way, including nibs, and see big machines like ball mills and stone mills close up. This was even better than any wine tour I've ever been on. And the aroma in the factory is heavenly.
In the end I came out smarter, happier and poorer than I went in. Ask me about theobromine. Or about the $34 I spent on bars of vanilla milk chocolate, nib brittle dark chocolate, chai tea milk chocolate, coffee dark chocolate, and bread & chocolate, and the truffles with burnt sugar, lemon, peanut butter & jelly, fig-fennel, and mint, and the bag of nib brittle. Oh, and Yelpstick, it's been great, but you're history. I now have chocolate lip balm. Sorry. Some people think I won't be able to make all this chocolate last for a couple of weeks. I'll show them. Or not.
Organic, fair trade chocolate? I'll never buy any other way.
**Uh, Theo actually does mean God. It's a Greek root. So I'm not quite as clever as it appears.