About our site

Honest Chocolates is about making the best-tasting chocolates possible for an affordable price.

We work really really hard to make our chocolates taste good. It means a lot when people tell us we make the best caramel (or honeycomb or marshmallow or soft center or ganache or...) they ever tasted. The candy's cooked in small batches. We use an eating chocolate chosen by customers in a blind taste test. Most of our products turn over within a week, so you know they're fresh. If a product doesn't sell we stop making it, so the ones we continue to carry are very popular with our customers (sort of a survival of the tastiest).

We keep our chocolates affordable by focusing on taste while watching other costs carefully. So we use bags instead of boxes (you can't eat a box!), avoid expensive ingredients, work out of a small town rather than the big city, and share our locations with other businesses, including the twelve wine tasting room in McMinnville and local Pinot Noir producer Seven of Hearts/Luminous Hills at our commercial kitchen in Carlton.

Honest Chocolates is a team of hard-working people. We love what we do. Dana has been making candies and chocolates for over 25 years. She put her internet sales on hold to open the store in McMinnville, and is very excited to be back on the web. Tracy manages the Newberg store, keeps our standards high, and dips chocolates like a pro--because she is! Hannah is a talented home-schooled teen who is in the process of launching her own dress line. This is Jessica's first job, but she has proven up to the challenge. Not only has she become one of our best dippers, she was recently promoted to assistant manager of the McMinnville store. She also makes exquisite jewelry. We also have several new employees: Kenneth is a first-year college student who plans to have his own food business one day. Lori is a former travel agent and Spanish teacher who loves quilting and scrapbooking. Jodi coordinates a county-wide volunteer reading program and has been a customer since our first month in business. Toni is a fine artist who enjoys working with her hands and is picking up chocolate dipping skills very quickly. We feel lucky to have such a talented, enthusiastic, hard-working crew!

You are welcome to visit us anytime at our bricks & mortar stores and watch us dip chocolates. Our address is:


Honest Chocolates
575 NE 3rd Street
McMinnville, OR 97128
503-474-9042
www.honestchocolates.com

Hours: 11:00 am to 6:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.

Here's a map.


Now dipping and selling in Newberg!

Honest Chocolates
312 E 1st Street
Newberg, OR 97132
503-537-0754

Hours: 11:30 am to 6:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday.


Here's another map.


Lmited selection of chocolates at our Kitchen (with Seven of Hearts Wine)

Honest Chocolates Kitchen
217 W Main Street
PO Box 472
Carlton, OR 97111

Hours: Noon to 5 pm  Friday through Sunday.