If Paris is the city of love, Brussels is the city of chocolate & who is to say that is not even better? Today, visitor to the city are often tempted to stop en route between leaving their train at the Gare du Midi & arriving At their Brussels hotels to get A fix of their favourite confections from Neuhaus, Godiva,
Leonidas or Guylian; but we need to look back to 1912 – to understand why Belgium is synonymous with chocolate.
Jean Neuhaus Junior had taken over the family business from his brother Frederic after his death the previous year. The shop, started in 1857 was originally an apothecary ; their father, Jean Senior, had come to Brussels from Switzerland to set up his shop on the Galerie de la Reine. However, it was not long before liquorices , marshmallows & dark chocolate began to appear alongside the alongside the packets of cocaine tooth powder & cattarh snuff on offer.
But it was Jean Junior whose innovation put Belgian chocolate on the map. He was the first creator of what we know today as the classic Belgian chocolate- the reason why so many chocoholics flock to Brussels hotels. The soft or liquid filling encased in a crisp shell of couverture – which were originally called praline
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