Belgian pralines is a signature dish of Belgium; we have verified places to eat it in Bruges. Filled Belgian chocolates, a hard chocolate shell enclosing ganache, praline paste, caramel or cream. Start with where to eat Belgian pralines in Bruges.
Belgian pralines · Bruges
Filled Belgian chocolates, a hard chocolate shell enclosing ganache, praline paste, caramel or cream. Bruges carries one of the densest chocolatier scenes in the country, much of it still handmade.
The filled Belgian chocolate, the praline, was invented in Brussels by Jean Neuhaus in 1912, who replaced bitter pharmacy chocolate coatings with a shell around a sweet filling. The craft spread across Belgium and Bruges became one of its heartlands, with dozens of chocolatiers in the medieval core. Many still make their pralines by hand in workshops behind the shop, from the experimental Chocolate Line under Dominique Persoone to the guild house Pol Depla with its Brugs Swaentje.
Where to eat in Bruges:
- The Chocolate Line
- Dumon Chocolatier
- Chocolaterie Sukerbuyc
Where to eat Belgian pralines in Bruges: the editor picks