Thierry Mulhaupt chocolatier

Bean to bar, with Colombian cocoa

Tablets are the reason to walk into the Temple Neuf shop rather than the larger Mulhaupt pastry house on Rue du Vieux Marché aux Poissons. This branch is the chocolate and confiserie arm of the maison founded in 1991 by Thierry Mulhaupt, a pâtissier chocolatier from Colmar, and its case runs to chocolats, confiseries and gourmandises rather than a full pastry counter. The bean to bar work sits at the centre of it, built on Colombian cocoa and in particular the Quindío origin, sourced through Casa Rivera del Cacao and the Cacao For Good initiative, which sponsors cocoa trees in Colombia. The Guide des Croqueurs de Chocolat named a Mulhaupt tablet Tablette Or with a coup de coeur in 2026, and the house is listed among the member boutiques of Relais Desserts.

Spice, confiture and small gourmand pieces

The phrase épice et chocolat is attached to this address, a useful clue to how the outlet is weighted: spice, chocolate and preserved fruit rather than viennoiserie. The wider Mulhaupt range takes in tablettes bean to bar, chocolats, confiseries et confitures, cadeaux, boissons gourmandes, pains d'épices, petits fours, cakes, entremets, glaces and viennoiseries, and pieces from that catalogue surface here in the smaller formats that travel well. Named items from the house repertoire include a tarte aux myrtilles, petits fours sucrés and the Bâtonnet Glacé Mister M, which comes in four déclinaisons. The shop functions as a compact retail chocolatier in the historic centre of Strasbourg, which means the choice in front of you is between bars, boxes and small gifts rather than a plated pastry.

Start with a tablet, then a box

Begin with a single origin tablet, because that is where the sourcing story becomes something you can taste. The Quindío bars carry the clearest link to the Colombian cocoa the house works with directly, and they make the most sense as a first purchase for anyone who wants to understand what separates this shop from a general sweet counter. From there, a mixed box of confiseries shows the range of technique, and the confitures and pains d'épices extend the same idea into the Alsatian register the maison came from. If a gift is the point, the ready-wrapped boxes are the obvious answer. If it is curiosity, buy two tablets and compare them side by side.