Teuscher
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Teuscher is a Swiss
chocolatier
, headquartered in Zurich
, with a store on Bahnhofstrasse and its flagship a few blocks away in the old city centre in a shop built in 1647. Founded in 1932 by Adolf Teuscher, Sr. (known as Dolf since WWII), Teuscher is now run by Dolf Teuscher, Jr. Rafael Rubio, Dolf, Jr.'s nephew is the family company's CFO.
In addition to its stores in Zurich, The company maintains branch shops in these cities around the world: New York City
, Chicago
, Beverly Hills, San Francisco,Palo Alto, Boston
, Newport Beach,[Toronto]], Tokyo
, Yokohama
, Singapore
, Hong Kong
, Berlin
, Geneva
, Philadelphia, Portland
, and Austin
. The Swiss confectioner manufactures, by hand, over 200 varieties of confections and pastries. Its signature confection is the Champagne Truffles, the first of its kind.
The company is an old-world confectioner and patissier that creates hundreds of confections based on chocolates and some without. Their celebrated Champagne Truffles are made with Dom Perignon champagne. Each is made with buttercream and Dom Perignon mixture surrounded by dark cream ganache made from 66% dark base chocolate. Then it is enrobed
in milk chocolate and dusted with confectioner's sugar or in dark chocolate and dusted with bracingly dry unsweetened cocoa powder.
As Swiss confectioners generally do not distinguish themselves from patissiers the way the French tend to, the Teuscher brand also creates a wide range of pastries and cookies as well. Controversially, the Zurich-based company bakes the famous cookies of Basel
, Zurich's main rival city, the Basler Leckerli, which are somewhat similar to gingerbread cookies.
Teuscher is legendary in its zeal for the best natural ingredients. He travels to Asia to source his ginger, to California for his Chili and most importantly specifies a very specific blend of cacao for his base chocolates.
Its dark chocolate smoothness is unparalleled even by the best of French brands like Richart and Debauve et Gallais Paris. In fact, many trained palates would say that only a few brands such as Payard, Jacques Torres, Pierre Herme, and Fauchon can come close in its smoothness.
They fly their celebrated Champagne Truffles from Switzerland every week to their store locations around the globe such as Rockefeller Center, New York City, Chicago, Beverly Hills, CA, San Francisco, CA, Palo Alto [ Stanford Shopping Center], CA, Las Vegas, NV, Portland, OR, and Austin, TX.
Food critics such as Mimi Sheraton of the New York Times and Gael Greene of New York Magazine have dubbed the chocolatier the best all-around in the world.
Aside from their incredibly wide-ranging selection of truffles, pralines, marzipan and other items, Teuscher also manufactures chocolate bars of high distinction including special dark chocolate ranging from 55% to 99% in increments of 11%. While all the types are not available in all sizes, the chocolate bars come in 25 gram, 50 gram, and 100 gram sizes.
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
chocolatier
Chocolate
Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC...
, headquartered in Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
, with a store on Bahnhofstrasse and its flagship a few blocks away in the old city centre in a shop built in 1647. Founded in 1932 by Adolf Teuscher, Sr. (known as Dolf since WWII), Teuscher is now run by Dolf Teuscher, Jr. Rafael Rubio, Dolf, Jr.'s nephew is the family company's CFO.
In addition to its stores in Zurich, The company maintains branch shops in these cities around the world: New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Beverly Hills, San Francisco,Palo Alto, Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, Newport Beach,[Toronto]], Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, Yokohama
Yokohama
is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...
, Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, Geneva
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
, Philadelphia, Portland
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
, and Austin
Austin
Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas.Austin may also refer to:-In the United States:*Austin, Arkansas*Austin, Colorado*Austin, Chicago, Illinois*Austin, Indiana*Austin, Minnesota*Austin, Nevada*Austin, Oregon...
. The Swiss confectioner manufactures, by hand, over 200 varieties of confections and pastries. Its signature confection is the Champagne Truffles, the first of its kind.
The company is an old-world confectioner and patissier that creates hundreds of confections based on chocolates and some without. Their celebrated Champagne Truffles are made with Dom Perignon champagne. Each is made with buttercream and Dom Perignon mixture surrounded by dark cream ganache made from 66% dark base chocolate. Then it is enrobed
Enrober
An enrober is a machine used in the confectionery industry to coat a food item with a coating medium, typically chocolate. Foods coated by enrobers include nuts, ice cream, toffee and other miscellaneous candy items, biscuits and cookies. Enrobing is essentially a mechanized form of hand-dipping...
in milk chocolate and dusted with confectioner's sugar or in dark chocolate and dusted with bracingly dry unsweetened cocoa powder.
As Swiss confectioners generally do not distinguish themselves from patissiers the way the French tend to, the Teuscher brand also creates a wide range of pastries and cookies as well. Controversially, the Zurich-based company bakes the famous cookies of Basel
Basel
Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
, Zurich's main rival city, the Basler Leckerli, which are somewhat similar to gingerbread cookies.
Teuscher is legendary in its zeal for the best natural ingredients. He travels to Asia to source his ginger, to California for his Chili and most importantly specifies a very specific blend of cacao for his base chocolates.
Its dark chocolate smoothness is unparalleled even by the best of French brands like Richart and Debauve et Gallais Paris. In fact, many trained palates would say that only a few brands such as Payard, Jacques Torres, Pierre Herme, and Fauchon can come close in its smoothness.
They fly their celebrated Champagne Truffles from Switzerland every week to their store locations around the globe such as Rockefeller Center, New York City, Chicago, Beverly Hills, CA, San Francisco, CA, Palo Alto [ Stanford Shopping Center], CA, Las Vegas, NV, Portland, OR, and Austin, TX.
Food critics such as Mimi Sheraton of the New York Times and Gael Greene of New York Magazine have dubbed the chocolatier the best all-around in the world.
Aside from their incredibly wide-ranging selection of truffles, pralines, marzipan and other items, Teuscher also manufactures chocolate bars of high distinction including special dark chocolate ranging from 55% to 99% in increments of 11%. While all the types are not available in all sizes, the chocolate bars come in 25 gram, 50 gram, and 100 gram sizes.