Hello Chocolate · Curated ranking
The Best American Chocolate
American makers judged against the world at the International Chocolate Awards — ranked by score, sourced where we can. We rank only bars we'll stand behind.
Goodnow Farm
· 2024
· United States
Green banana, mango, and bright fruit from Q'eqchi Maya wild-harvested Guatemalan cacao, sweetened with robust New England maple sugar — like the best French toast you've ever had.
BOHO Chocolate
· 2024
· United States
Deep, concentrated cocoa that's far less bitter than its 87% suggests — subtle fruit and earthy undertones over a silky, slow-melting texture, from organic South American Chuncho cacao.
BOHO Chocolate
· 2025
· United States
Mango, banana, citrus, and dark berries — layers of tropical fruit from heirloom Criollo cacao on a multi-generational family farm at the foot of Mount Matutum, Philippines.
Chaleur B Chocolat
· 2023
Intensely fruity and fragrant — pure, unadded fruit flavours from Peruvian Amazon beans that once grew in the shadow of coca, now an ICA Silver winner from Quebec.
Goodnow Farm
· 2023
· United States
Intense rye whiskey warmth layered with berry jam, Cabernet grape, baked apple, spiced pear, and vanilla.
BOHO Chocolate
· 2023
· United States
BOHO Chocolate
· 2023
· United States
Silky smooth and balanced — delicate honey, tropical fruit, and subtle florals from biodiverse agroforestry cacao grown in Colombia's coastal mountains near the Caribbean.
Sleep Walk
· 2026
· United States
Orange peel, red fruit, and almond butter — aromatic Trinitario cacao from Don Margarito Mendoza's farm in Ostuacán, Chiapas, hand-tempered on granite in Chicago.
Sleep Walk
· 2024
· United States
Floral Mesquite honey layered inside dark Mexican-Central American chocolate, pierced by fierce Guatemalan chiltepe chiles — sweet, floral, and wildly hot in equal measure.
Goodnow Farm
· 2025
· United States
Brown sugar, pear, and deep savory umami — sweet caramelized onion stone-ground into Nicaraguan dark chocolate, finishing earthy and dry like the world's best onion chip.
BOHO Chocolate
· 2023
· United States
Single-origin Dominican 70% from the Öko-Caribe co-op — honey, red fruit and a velvety melt. Organic, ICA Silver
Goodnow Farm
· 2025
· United States
Lemongrass, green grape, and peach — pure Ucayali Peruvian cacao at its most expressive, shockingly smooth and complex for a 100% bar with zero sugar.
Goodnow Farm
· 2024
· United States
Toasted marshmallow, honey graham cracker, and a whisper of molasses — like a perfect s'more, from cacao grown where coca fields once stood in Colombia's Boyacá region.
Goodnow Farm
· 2023
· United States
Molasses, caramel, oak, and vanilla — Ecuadorian berry-jam cacao nibs soaked in over 50 bottles of Lawley's Dark Rum, a deeply indulgent Massachusetts collaboration.
Goodnow Farm
· 2025
· United States
Intense berry jam and Cabernet grape — deep, smooth, and virtually acid-free, with a long, satisfying finish from Nacional hybrid cacao on the Salazar family's 100-acre Ecuadorian farm.
Goodnow Farm
· 2023
· United States
Deep, rich, and earthy with caramel and raisin — a dark chocolate lover's bar from single-family-farm cacao in Nicaragua's Central Highlands, silky-smooth on freshly pressed single-origin cocoa butter.
Goodnow Farm
· 2024
· United States
Deep, earthy Nicaraguan cacao — caramel, raisin, and rich cocoa — punctuated by a satisfying crunch of coarsely ground, lightly roasted Nicaraguan coffee.
Sleep Walk
· 2023
· United States
Nutty and fudgy with vanilla bean, banana bread, and pecan — a smooth, low-acidity house blend of Southern Mexican cacao, stone-ground and hand-tempered in Chicago, an ICA Americas Bronze winner.
Goodnow Farm
· 2025
· United States
Creamy, rich, and perfectly balanced — Dominican Zorzal cacao let loose in a dark milk format, the 2025 ICA Gold Best in Competition winner for milk chocolate.
Sleep Walk
· 2023
· United States
Fudgy Southern Mexican house blend warmed with cinnamon and a building cayenne heat. Vegan, spiced 70% dark.
Sleep Walk
· 2025
· United States
Smoky mezcal and slow-burning pasilla de Oaxaca chile woven into organic Mexican dark chocolate — bold, complex, and unmistakably Oaxacan.
Goodnow Farm
· 2025
· United States
Rich chocolate, honey, and malty oat warmth — creamy, dairy-free, and completely plant-based, made with single-ingredient JOI oat milk and Colombian Boyacá cacao.
Goodnow Farm
· 2025
· United States
Pine, rosemary, herbs, and mouthwatering lemon with a gentle tingle — Peruvian Ucayali cacao paired with non-spicy green Sichuan pepper for a cool, herbal lift.
Goodnow Farm
· 2023
· United States
Lemon verbena, fig, and ripe peach — floral, herbal, and beautifully balanced, from fine-flavor cacao grown by small farmers along the Amazon's Ucayali River in Peru.
Goodnow Farm
· 2023
· United States
Bright, tart Ecuadorian passion fruit colliding with green banana, mango, and nectarine from wild-harvested Maya cacao — an intensely tropical, vividly fruity dark chocolate.
Goodnow Farm
· 2023
· United States
Creamy citrus and hazelnut — surprisingly pale and milk-like in colour despite 77% cacao, from rare white-beaned trees on an 80-year-old family farm in Tabasco, Mexico.
Goodnow Farm
· 2023
· United States
Green banana, mango, and sherbet brightness with a mellow dark fruit finish — wild-harvested Q'eqchi Maya cacao from a mountain village in Guatemala, accessible only by footbridge.
Prophecy Chocolate
· 2025
· United Sates
Creamy, nutty Peruvian Macambo — cacao's wild cousin — with a bold spicy kick that lingers on the finish.
Goodnow Farm
· 2023
· United States
Green banana, mango, cherry, and nectarine — fruity Guatemalan cacao nibs soaked in a custom-brewed single-origin Las Palomas coffee, where the chocolate and coffee blur beautifully into one.
Goodnow Farm
· 2025
· United States
Toasted brown butter and cinnamon raisin — nutty, rich, and exceptionally creamy, made with award-winning Jersey cow butter from a century-old Massachusetts farm and Dominican Zorzal cacao.
Goodnow Farm
· 2026
· United States
Sweet maple fudge and warm caramel laced with scorpion-pepper heat and ginger — Colombian Boyacá cacao aged with Boston Harbor's Demon Seed Whiskey, an ICA Silver winner.
Goodnow Farm
· 2026
· United States
BOHO Chocolate
· 2026
· United States
Single-origin Belize 70% from Heirloom Maya Mountain cacao — berry-bright, fudgy and smooth. Organic, ICA winner.
Goodnow Farm
· 2026
· United States
Cocoa, banana, vanilla, and cream — a nostalgic dark milk bar layering freeze-dried organic banana and Mexican Planifolia vanilla over fruity single-origin Esmeraldas cacao.
Goodnow Farm
· 2025
· United States
Sweet and creamy with bright fruit and citrus — a rare true single-origin white made from freshly pressed Almendra Blanca cocoa butter and organic whole milk, an ICA World Finals Gold winner.
Goodnow Farm
· 2024
· United States
New England maple sweetness, rich browned butter, and fragrant Guatemalan cloud forest cardamom — smooth, cozy, and buttery on Colombian Boyacá cacao.
Goodnow Farm
· 2025
· United States
Rare 70% from rediscovered ancient Nicaraguan Criollo — grape, strawberry and honey, delicate and creamy. A genuine limited release.
Goodnow Farm
· 2024
· United States
Goodnow Farm
· 2026
· United States
Rich, smooth drinking chocolate with the bright banana-and-mango character of the cacao fruit itself — unalkalized single-origin Guatemalan cocoa made with freshly pressed cocoa butter, an ICA World Drinking Chocolate Silver winner.
How we rank: Every bar is scored against ICA results from 2022 onward. Where a bar has won multiple years, we use the highest official score. Only the 100 highest-scoring bars we can source appear on this page.
The best American chocolate has nothing to do with the names in the checkout aisle. It comes from a converted barn in Massachusetts, a railway arch in Oakland, a small room in Brooklyn — from a generation of makers who taught themselves to roast, and who now win at the International Chocolate Awards against countries that have made chocolate for centuries.
Every bar ranked below was scored at those awards, judged blind, and we rank by that score alone. Where we can source a bar, you can buy it here; where we can't, we tell you where to find it. It's the shortest honest answer to a question the aisle never lets you ask: is American chocolate any good? At the top, it's among the best in the world.