Wholesale Chocolate Distributor Supplying Cafes, Pastry Kitchens and Chocolatiers

What sets professional chocolate apart from a supermarket block

Anyone who has tempered a batch can feel the difference between cooking chocolate off a supermarket shelf and chocolate built for the bench. Our wholesale chocolate supplies are chosen for kitchens that need the chocolate to behave a particular way, every service.

Couverture sits at the centre of the range. Its higher cocoa-butter content is what lets it temper to a clean snap and a glossy finish, then flow thinly enough for moulding, enrobing and fine decoration. Most of it is stocked as callets: the small buttons or discs that melt evenly and weigh a portion far more easily than a slab you have to chop. For production runs, or simply for anyone who prefers it that way, the same chocolates also come in blocks. Dark, milk and white run through the range at varying cocoa percentages, so you can match the chocolate to the job rather than push one bar to do everything.

This is the specialty end of the shelf, the chocolate that never turns up beside the trolleys, gathered into one place so a kitchen can source exactly what it gets through.

The chocolate brands we carry

Three names do most of the work in a professional kitchen, and Foodistribute supplies all three.

Callebaut is the Belgian house where a great many cafes and pastry kitchens are trained. Its dark, milk and white recipes make a dependable everyday choice, and the callets melt and temper predictably, which is what you want when the same dessert has to land right after service.

Valrhona is the French name for a serious pastry that reaches for when the chocolate is the point of the plate. It is prized for the character and consistency of its couverture and cocoa, and it earns its place on a tasting menu or a signature dessert.

Belcolade is the value-premium Belgian option: a genuine couverture priced for a cafe or bakery moving real volume, without dropping back to a compound.

Each brand has its own page on the site with the detail that belongs to it. Treat this category as the front door. Start here, then follow the brand you use through to its full range.

Who orders wholesale chocolate, and what for

Most of the chocolate leaving here goes to food businesses. Cafes building a dessert and hot-chocolate offering, restaurants and pastry kitchens folding couverture into plated desserts and petits fours, chocolatiers moulding and enrobing their own lines, bakeries running it through their baking, and caterers covering events all order through us. For them the draw is steady supply of the brands their team already knows, plus the convenience of one supplier and one bill across chocolate and the rest of the pantry.

Home cooks order too. Foodistribute runs as a B2B and B2C marketplace under one roof, so a keen home baker or a hobby chocolatier can buy the same professional couverture the cafe down the road uses, in the brand and format they want, with no trade account standing in the way.

Buying wholesale chocolate online in Australia

Ordering is meant to be simple. Browse the chocolate range on the online store and place the order there, or send it through by email if that suits you better, then pay by credit card or direct debit.

Competitive wholesale pricing sits against each product on the online store, so you can see the figure before you commit, with no trade-account hurdle first. From there we arrange delivery across Australia. Foodistribute is based in Sydney, and orders can be shipped to Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, the ACT, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast and Newcastle. That makes us a practical answer whether you are after wholesale chocolate suppliers in Melbourne, wholesale chocolate suppliers in Sydney, or a chocolate distributor anywhere else in the country.

If a chocolate you want is not listed, tell us. Sourcing products on request is part of the job, and we will do our best to track it down. If something happens to be out of stock when you order, we let you know and offer an alternative or arrange a credit, rather than leaving you guessing.

Order your chocolate with Foodistribute

The couverture your pastry section runs on, the callets that temper without a fight, and the brand your team already knows, all on one account with the rest of the kitchen order. Open the chocolate category to see what is in stock and start an order, then follow the Callebaut, Valrhona or Belcolade link through to the range you work with.