Dubai Chocolate

[theplayingmantis]

Not tried and don't plan to due to the ridiculous price.

question is the price simply marketing hype and will come down to normal overtime or are the ingredients/process to make costlier than a 'normal' premium chocolate bar?

I appreciate pistachio price may have jumped but is it really any more significant than hazelnut/raisin/almond price (I'm thing of other nuts/fruits that are commonly added to choc bars)

[Slow.Patrol]

I think M&S have launched their own version.

I won't be trying it.

[Quattr04.]

It’s all marketing hype

None of them are “dubai style” anyway, the Dubai bar thats £10 has filo style pastry inside it.

The cheap shops have all launched one and from the reviews they’re all minging because they have such low pistachio content and none of them have pastry inside them which isn’t surprising

So they’re just pistachio chocolate bar, even the M&S one is less than 20% pistachios and they’ve got no pastry inside it either, they’ve used caramel most likely to balance the strong pistachios taste


Will fade out when something new comes along

[JKRolling]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/apr/...

[RayDonovan]

Complete fad

Over hyped on social media.

[ChemicalChaos]

theplayingmantis said:

Question is the price simply marketing hype and will come down to normal overtime

It's Prime, but for Tilly and Tarquin instead of Jayden and Candice

[C4ME]

It's the local gelato's number one most popular flavour by miles at the moment.

Edited by C4ME on Friday 25th April 18:28

[generationx]

RayDonovan said:

Complete fad

Over hyped on social media.

Bingo.

[Quattr04.]

C4ME said:

It's the local gelato's number one most popular flavour by miles at the moment.

Edited by C4ME on Friday 25th April 18:28

I bet they’ve just renamed their old pistachio flavour

A while back it was all about pistachio cream, made me laugh, the Lidl one was 7% pistachio and the rest sugar and rapeseed oil

[C4ME]

Quattr04. said:

C4ME said:

It's the local gelato's number one most popular flavour by miles at the moment.

I bet they’ve just renamed their old pistachio flavour

A while back it was all about pistachio cream, made me laugh, the Lidl one was 7% pistachio and the rest sugar and rapeseed oil

LOL I imagine some have done just that

They have done it surprisingly well. Belgium choc ice cream base layer, then layer of pistachio paste and crushed filo pastry, then layer of dark choc bar. This sort of stuff is too sweet for me overall but creative and a nice flavour combination.

I snapped a pic last month when it first appeared



Close up taken from their instagram

Edited by C4ME on Friday 25th April 20:24

[Quattr04.]

That does look very good.

Sickly but good

Can’t beat a cherry ripple

[fizz47]

Had the original one when I was visiting dubai as our hosts got all of their flavours …

Totally overpriced and the quality of the chocolate was not that great to my mind. ( I am spoilt as living in Switzerland) Having said that it wasn’t awful but not something I would get again from them.

The same company do a pretzel filled bar which I preferred

Last week tried Laderach’s ‘fresh’ version of it .. better than the original but still I find it too sweet.

Lindt do a version but saw its around 15 so again massively overpriced

[Mr.Chips]

I tried the version sold in Lidl a few weeks ago. The price was £3.99 reduced from £4.99
It was OK, but I certainly wouldn’t buy it again at that price.

[dapprman]

I tried the one from Morrisons and it was ok but rather sweet as that version does not contain the tahini, which I suspect adds a savoury element. Also the crushed kadayif was barely noticeable and while there were crunch elements they were small and few. Not worth the £5.

[The_Doc]

In this week's Spectator Magazine.
The departures lounge at Charles de Gaulle yesterday had the Lindt version at €15 each for 145g bar. They had lots left....

This correspondant (and his 2 kids) did not purchase.

I'm not aware that Dubai is a centre of expertise on chocolate.
And fascinatingly, as I have no social media activity, the first I heard about it was here on PH.

Attibution:


https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-creeping-d...

[dapprman]

The_Doc said:

I'm not aware that Dubai is a centre of expertise on chocolate.
And fascinatingly, as I have no social media activity, the first I heard about it was here on PH.

Can't remember if it was mentioned here or not but there are a number of interviews with the creator out there. He originally created it just for his wife as while pregnant she got a taste for chocolate, pistachio kadayif and tahini all at the same time. Think there was also cream in the mix. The next year she talked him in to making more (think for a pregnant friend) and news got out there so he started making it commercially (small batches though).
I suspect the tahini helps counter the sweetness of the kadayif, also I think he uses dark chocolate not milk.

[carguy45]

I had to google Dubai chocolate bar there as I didn't know what it meant, I knew it was pistachio related but seems to have some other key ingredients and more of a pistachio paste kinda filling?

This will do me instead, local spar sells it. Not pricey and quite tasty.

[RayDonovan]

Ritter is decent, got a few mates who work there

They do a Coffee version which is ace (if you like that thing)

[carguy45]

RayDonovan said:

Ritter is decent, got a few mates who work there

They do a Coffee version which is ace (if you like that thing)

Oh that sounds good, I do like coffee flavoured stuff so must keep an eye out for it. Guinness cold brew coffee stout is my current obsession, it's lovely.

[CKY]

RayDonovan said:

Ritter is decent, got a few mates who work there

Yeah, tbf I think mentioning 'Ritter' in the same sentence as this stuff from Dubai is probably a bit like comparing the weather and the current performance of S&P 500 shares - you can draw parallels, but none are really relevant such is the difference between them. Ritter's Milk Chocolate with whole hazlenuts used to be my go-to until the local stopped stocking it.