Bûche
Milk chocolate with a soft praline.
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A milk chocolate shell around a soft praline. One of the most recognisable Leonidas shapes, formed as a log.
Official descriptionLeonidas Rhodes
Belgian chocolate.
Rhodian light.
Pralines made in Belgium by the Leonidas Master Chocolatiers, in the heart of Rhodes town.
Rhodes
From the light of the island, to the weight of one piece of chocolate.
Leonidas makes its pralines in Belgium. We bring them here and hand them to you, one at a time.
The shop stands between the harbour and the medieval city, on a street you walk down anyway.
Mandraki, Rhodes
The pralines
Seven pralines from the world of Leonidas, with their official descriptions. Designed and made in Belgium.
- Flavours
- 7
- Types
- 3
- Origin
- BE
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Alexandre Le Grand
Dark chocolate with a caramel cream.
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Dark chocolate around a caramel cream. The bitterness of the cocoa keeps the caramel from turning cloying.
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Manon Café
White chocolate, coffee buttercream, praline and a whole hazelnut.
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White chocolate with coffee buttercream and praline, holding one whole hazelnut. The only one in this selection built around a whole nut.
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Gianduja
Praline.
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Plain praline, with nothing added. The starting point of the Gian- family that Giamanda and Giantina build on.
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Giamanda
Praline with almond pieces.
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The same praline, carrying almond pieces. The texture changes, the base stays.
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Giantina
Praline with crunchy caramelised biscuit.
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Praline carrying pieces of crunchy caramelised biscuit. The crispest of the family.
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Mosaïque Feuilletine
Milk chocolate with crunchy praline and feuilletine.
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Coated in Leonidas milk chocolate and decorated with white chocolate, filled with crunchy praline enriched with feuilletine, inspired by Bruges lace biscuits.
Official description
The Leonidas catalogue is far larger than this selection. For what is in the Rhodes shop today, ask us.
- Free from palm oil
- 100% pure cocoa butter
- Sustainably certified cocoa
From Ghent, in 1913.
The Leonidas story starts in Belgium, with a man from Niğde in Anatolia. The shop in Rhodes is where it arrives.
The man
Leonidas Georges Kestekides
Born in Niğde in Anatolia, in present-day Turkey. The company he founded still carries his name.
27 October 1913
The gold medal at Ghent.
At the Ghent World’s Fair he presented his latest creations to visitors. On 27 October he was awarded the gold medal and a commemorative diploma.
34 Veldstraat, Ghent
A tea room, and a window.
He opened his first tea room. Together with Joanna he served pastries, confectionery, sweets and ice cream.
He displayed the pralines on the windowsill and sold them straight to passers-by through a sash window. That was the beginning of guillotine-window selling, which would later become the Leonidas trademark.
Today
- Shops
- 1,200+
- From one shop with one window, to a global brand.
- Made in
- Belgium
- With the traditional expertise of the Master Chocolatiers.
The above concerns the parent company Leonidas. The year 1913 does not refer to the shop in Rhodes.
Historical photographs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Facts: the official Leonidas history.
In Rhodes town.
The shop sits on Ethnarchou Makariou, a few minutes from the medieval city. One walk past is enough.
- Address
- Εθνάρχου Μακαρίου 28, Rhodes 851 00 Greece
- Phone
- +30 2241 402707
Before you come
What is in the cabinet changes. If you are after something specific, or you want a box as a gift, call us first and we will tell you what we have.