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Peter de Groote: Belgian chocolates
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  • Dabs
  • Updated By Dabs on September 27, 2006
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  • Peter de Groote - Ieper
    Peter de Groote
    by Dabs
    Declarations of "The finest Belgian Chocolates and the words "free sample", not to mention a growling stomach drew me into Peter de Groote and I ended up buying several different kinds to try. These ended up being some of the least expensive chocolates that I would try and also my favorites, especially the white chocolate creme fraiche. Very simple, no nuts, no added layers of anything, just chocolate and fresh cream, delicious!

    I should have gone back and bought some more but since we were traveling by car, I had planned to stock up in Brussels right before we returned home. I never did find another Peter de Groote store since the only location is in Ypres and although I came close, I didn't find any that I liked as well as these.

    Compared to other Belgian chocolates, these were relatively inexpensive

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  • Theme: Food and Drink
  • Address: Market Square, 43
  • Phone: 00 32 (0) 57 217306
  • Directions: On the market square, directly across from the cloth hall
  • Website: http://www.peterdegroote.be/
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    Cholcoalte Lovers Paradise
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  • By nhcram on February 17, 2008
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    by nhcram
    Belgium is reknowned for its excellent chocolate shops and Ieper is no exception. It is a chocolate lovers paradise. I could not resist buying some and opted for some cat shaped chocolates as the cat is the symbol of Ieper.

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  • Theme: Food and Drink
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    Patisserie Chocolaterie Vandale: CHOCOLATE.....
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  • Updated By Greggor58 on April 23, 2009
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  • Patisserie Chocolaterie Vandale,Ieper,West Flander - Ieper
    Patisserie Chocolaterie
    Vandale,Ieper,West Flander
    by Greggor58, 1 more photos
    This is a charming small store that is family run and has been in business for more than a hundred years...it was founded in 1891 and rebuilt on the "Grote Markt" in Ieper after the First World War.

    Carl was running the store when I popped in...after I had SAMPLED some of the product, made some purchases, and asked if he minded if I take some photos...the conversation eventually got around to Virtual Tourist and he was more than enthusiastic about the idea of being able to find out so much information about travel destinations all in one Web site...Carl is a traveler also!!

    Any of the dark chocolates are all good but there is more than a small choice with which you can indulge your sweet tooth!!! There are more than 70 different kinds of handmade Belgian chocolates as well as pastries available to snack on... : O ]

    This was certainly a store that I would revisit if I was ever back in Ieper.....

    You could spend as much or as little as you like...given that I TRY to travel as light as I can...I couldn't buy as much as I would like to...but honestly I thought that what I had purchased was of good value...I didn't feel my purchases were over priced!!

  • Theme: Other
  • Address: Grote Markt 9
  • Phone: 32-57-200387
  • Directions: On the opposite side of the street that the Lakenhalle is on....
  • Website: http://www.vandaele-ieper.be/
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    't Hemelryck: Chocolate
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  • pieter_jan_v
  • Updated By pieter_jan_v on May 3, 2007
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  • Choclates! - Ieper
    Choclates!
    by pieter_jan_v, 1 more photos
    't Hemelryck is a quality chocolate shop. The finest belgium bon bons are for sale.

    The shop offers more goodies beyond chocolates; salt and sour, bitter and sweet, everything West Flanders offers is in stock.

    So have a look at the home-made ice cream, waffles, pralines, sweets, Belgian Trappists and local Beers, genevas, wine, biscuits, pâté's, jelly, oil, vinegar & mustard, coffee & tea.

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  • Theme: Food and Drink
  • Address: Meensestraat 10 - 8900 Ieper
  • Phone: +32-57-360361
  • Directions: Se-corner of the market
  • Website: http://www.hemelryck.be/eng/
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    Puydtjes' Charcuterie: Paté
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  • By pieter_jan_v on May 4, 2007
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    Rabbit Paté
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    Puydtjes' Charcuterie is a kind a bucher shop with fine paté's, kummelworst, gevulde ovenkoeken and more run by Pascal Depuydt.

    I even saw some bee paté.

    The shop is in a lovely building with curved galls shopping windows in an Art Deco style.

    Paté.

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  • Theme: Food and Drink
  • Address: Neermarkt 2 - 8900 Ieper
  • Phone: +32-57-200533
  • Directions: Just West of the market square.
  • Website: http://www.puydtjes.be/
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    The British Grenadier bookshop: Remembrance at the great war
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  • Updated By Luchonda on March 12, 2006
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    I never went inside, but this shop, very close to the great market is an eye-catcher in the shopping streets of Ieper.
    Another popular shop is on the marketplace itself - Belgian chocolates of course.

    1?I presume all kind of books and videos about Ypres and the great war.
    2?Famous belgian chocolates

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  • Theme: Books
  • Directions: Near the marketplace and the Menin memorial Arc
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    Vandaele: Chocolate or beer?
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  • By Martinewezel on January 30, 2005
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  • Ypres - chocolate - Ieper
    Ypres - chocolate
    by Martinewezel
    We found these hand crafted beer bottles made out of chocolate very funny.

    Both chocolate and beer are Belgian specialities, so why not buy two in one?

    Nice present to take home!

    4 euros/ bottle is not much, is it?

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  • Theme: Local Craft
  • Address: Vandaele, Grote Markt 9, Ieper
  • Directions: Grand Place, at the opposite side of the Cloth Hall
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