William Curley Archives

A Masterclass in Classic and Contemporary Patisserie

Today we paid a visit to William Curley to sample the Dessert Bar menu. Five courses of dessert, petits fours and hot chocolate for £20.

A recreation of the Cadbury Picnic

A look at William Curley's dessert bar menu.

William Curley launches his new Champagne truffles.

William Curley's beautiful new book.

William Curley's new pop-up shop in the West End.

An evening of pairing chocolate from William Curley and perfumes from Miller Harris.

Another offering from William Curley's Nostalgia Range. Shortbread with caramel, covered in dark chocolate.

William Curley recreates some childhood classics as part of his nostalgia range.

The chocolates themselves look beautiful, much as you'd expect from anything with William Curley's name on it. They're elegant and unfussy with a simple decoration of cocoa nibs on top.

This rather ordinary looking box conceals 50g of cinnamon flavoured milk chocolate from Britain’s best chocolatier (at least according to The Academy of Chocolate). Picked up from his stand at the London Chocolate Festival for the princely sum of £3.50. …

This is another bar from the goody bags given out at the Academy of Chocolate Awards a few weeks ago. It’s a 45g, 70% dark chocolate bar divided into five large chunks, each filled with sea salted caramel. The most …

Another of London’s masters of chocolate, William Curley works over in Richmond rather than North London, and has been garnering many a plaudit for his chocolates for some time now. Last year I investigated a couple of his products, but …

Earlier this year I was chatting to a chef about chocolate (as you do) and he mentioned William Curley’s name, saying that he had a bit of a reputation as a chocolatier. Jump forward in time a few months and …