Old Kentucky Chocolates

An adorable chocolate boutique located in the Landsdowne Shoppes between The Mad Potter and Baskin Robbins. Plenty of UK & BBN attire as well as great chocolate.

Stopped into Old Kentucky Chocolates today to get some candy for my grandmother. She’s coming into town soon and has a major sweet tooth (apple doesn’t fall far from the tree).
With Derby coming up, OKC has a lot of great seasonal candy out. After perusing the store & deciding what she’d like best, I bought some derby mints, bourbon truffles, buckeyes, and a few candy bars– although you really can’t go wrong with anything here! The chocolate really is like no other.
The store is run by great people who are always so friendly. There is a sample table by the register with a few chocolate varieties — always worth checking out :) My other favorites here are the chocolate covered rice krispies and chocolate dipped grapes!

The quality of the chocolates and the store is amazing. Chocolate EVERYTHING, and it’s not low quality Walmart chocolates. When I indulge I prefer quality chocolate so finding this place was awesome.
However, I found the owners/​people who work there a bit snobby. Tried to make small talk during check out (which is a big deal considering I have anxiety), was promptly ignored while they chatted with the customer who spent $ 100+ dollars on chocolates. I was looking around at everything and could feel them watching me closely also. I don’t steal, but I guess I don’t look like the stereotypical customer because I have tattoos and tend to dress dark. Oh well. Definitely won’t be making regular visits like I had planned because of this. My anxiety flared the whole time I was in there.

I stopped in the day before Valentine’s Day to buy my boyfriend some chocolates. This place was unsurprisingly packed! I looked around for a while and then went to the front for samples. The girls at the front counter were very friendly. I sampled a chocolate covered strawberry, chocolate covered grape, and chocolate covered potato chip. I decided on a pound of chocolate covered potato chips for $ 15.95. I thought that was a fun gift for a guy.
Great local chocolate place with a wide variety of options. Most likely any type of chocolate candy that you enjoy, they have.

This is Old Kentucky Chocolate’s largest location and is where their chocolates are made. You can take a chocolate tour, which is really fun and a great activity to do with kids. I like their chocolate a lot and love how generous they are with samples. This location in particular carries a LOT of gift items, but I just come here for the chocolate. The employees are competent, but definitely not as warm and friendly as those at the Tates Creek location. Also, their organization is confusing to me (with regard to which products are grouped together or located within the store layout). They definitely have some sort of system, but I can’t figure out what it is, so if you’re looking for a particular type of chocolate, you may need to ask for help.

Amazing chocolate, simply perfect, the lady who served me was so very very nice, 8÷30÷15 I only come here whey two years, but soooo worth the trip, everything is delicious, she gave me samples that made me cry lol, I did spend a bit, for gifts, but again love this place, get out support local business. Till next time, go get you some

I remember when this location used to be my neighborhood video store. Yeah, that was years ago… and even though Old KY Chocolates has been around for many years, I haven’t and neither has this location.
I too read Susie’s review a year or so ago of this place has been on my radar ever since. Last week, I was searching for Valentine’s Day candy and wanted a local experience that tourists like, so I found myself here on a Saturday afternoon. I was surprised to see it so busy. There was a long line of people at the register when I first walked in. I walked around with the initial plan of just window shopping, yeah right… the plan seemed good. I ended up spending over $ 30. I bought candy sticks, sugar free candy, white chocolate dipped pretzels, dog bones and Oreos. For the record, the only thing that I got for myself were the candy sticks, you know the ones that I used to get as a kid for like a nickle each.
After I checked out, I notice the «free sampling» area. Everything available to sample were things that you probably wouldn’t try without first sampling, things like chocolate dipped potato chips and chocolate dipped grapes. They got me again, I bought a half pound box of the chocolate covered grapes… for my daughter, not for myself.
They usually have tours, but they told me that a machine is down, so the tours won’t start back up until March… I assume that will depend on whether or not the machine is fixed though.
After I left there, I kid you not, I went grocery shopping straight across the street at Good Foods Coop… I guess the guilt of sampling one too many chocolate covered grapes got to me.

This is a must stop while in Lexington. The workers are incredibly friendly. We left with a bag of samples to top off all the free samples we had in the store. The Black Forest bourbon truffles were perfect. And the chocolate covered grapes were even better!!!

It was almost a year ago that I read Susie L.‘s review of Old Kentucky Chocolates. I’ve pretty much never met a piece of chocolate I haven’t liked, lower end stuff excepted, so I was intrigued. But I tend not to act quickly on these things and it took me a while to order a one pound box of Dark Chocolate Derby Mints. And once I did, maybe last month, it took me a week or two to open them once they arrived. Today was the day. After lunch I removed the plastic wrap from the box which had been sitting on my kitchen counter and was treated to the smell of mint and chocolate.
I had one w/​a cup of tea. It was smooth and lovely. They don’t have nutritional information on the bottom of the box, so I’m not sure what they consider a portion, but one seemed sufficient. After the first one I wanted a second, but restrained myself, as I like to draw out the pleasure. I look forward to the next one tomorrow. It was excellent quality and I’m glad I acted on the impulse to buy them, even though it took me a while. Thanks, Susie!

The sweet older lady at the counter was so helpful and welcoming, I really enjoyed her. I purchased several gift boxes. My favorite where the black forest bourbon truffles. They were soooo good. Perfect because I can’t eat more than 2 at a time so they are good to leave out for the holiday.

The black forest bourbon truffles are amazing! Haven’t tried anything else, but after you try these there’s really no need for anything else!

Came here on a recent visit to Lexington. We had been to the store previously and liked the chocolates, but this time we went on a «factory» tour which came on the heels of having visited Hershey’s so-​called factory, which had been most disappointing.
Old Kentucky, however, was night-​and-​day different. We were part of a small group which explored the intricacies of the hands on operation. Very interesting and impressive.
And then, we were turned loose for tasting! What a nice touch.
Of course we left with a shopping bag full of stuff for gifts as well as for ourselves.
Try the chocolate covered potato chips. But watch out: They are addictive.
There are bourbon-​flavored chocolates. I’m not usually a fan of bourbon chocolates – chocolate, yes; bourbon, definitely – but not in combination. But some of these were quite tasty.
Can’t wait for our next Lexington visit so that we can go back!

Ok, I give this a five based mostly on one of their chocolates: the Black Forest Truffle.
Everything else was just «cute» or «ok», generally chocolate, in other words. But the Black Forest Truffle is BOURBON. They say it’s cherries and bourbon smashed together with chocolate in a chocolate coating, but I guarantee you, you will taste chocolate and bourbon when you eat it.

The sample table here is loaded with goodies, but the two stand-​out items are the chocolate covered grapes and the chocolate covered potato chips.
I know chocolate covered grapes sound nasty, but they are so good — the grapes are so refreshingly cold and juicy, and its a great contrast to the chocolate.
And for chocolate covered potato chips… If you like chocolate covered pretzels (and really, who doesn’t?) this is a much, much better version of that.

I’m writing this review as I experience a sugar high. The chocolates we were given from this business were soooooo good. They were addicting to say the least.
After polishing off the present I had to look the business up for future reference. You can check them out also at
I’ll be back to make my own purchases in the future.

Very good chocolate locally made in Lexington Kentucky. Many of their varieties use bourbon as an ingredient (Why not?). My favorite is the bourbon truffles. The shop is rather large and even sell gifts and touristy items (with a heavy emphasis on the University of Kentucky). Not sure what to buy? There are generous portions of free samples to try. We did not have a chance to take a tour of the factory but the chocolate alone is reason to stop by.

Great selection. Excellent quality of chocolate. Try the chocolate covered grapes!!! YUM

Cute little place with adorable chocolates. And the taste ain’t bad either.
They have tons of shapes and sizes including dental, drs, nurses, suns, animals, flowers, sports, law, and of course horses. They also have a myriad of specialty chocolates like bourbon everything and chocolate covered fresh fruit.
Faves: The choc covered grapes were delicious!
The ladies here are really sweet as well.
Yummilicious Factor = A–

My mom sent me these for my birthday…
They arrived at my office in a cooler with ice that had just started to cool. They REALLY made me want to break my diet protocol, especially since I let a friend try one and the look of delicious heaven on his face killed me (given I’d only had dry toast and an apple so far all day).
However, I’m hard core with this diet, so I resisted these, rewrapped the crap out of the box I had opened (one of two, she sent Old Kentucky Bourbon Truffles, and OK Bourbon Chocolates) and put both boxes in my freezer, where they would live for the next three weeks…
ANYWAY… I finally got to eat them, and, even despite having been in my freezer… MAN. Yum. Delicious.
AND boozey.

Why 5 stars? Because Cheryl could not have been a better tour guide.
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Apologies if I spelled Cheryl incorrectly, by the way!
Heather P and I took a tour of this chocolate factory, and I really had no idea what to expect. After it was over with, I was so glad we did this!
Cheryl was the sweetest person I think I’ve ever encountered. She knew her stuff, and was very generous with the samples. The whole time we were on the tour, I had three thoughts:
1) Why is this free?
2) Why aren’t there 100 people lining up to do this?
3) Listening to Cheryl describe the chocolate-​making process was like a lullaby. And I don’t mean in a boring way. It was so peaceful and pleasant, that I just wanted to curl up in a blanket on the floor and have her explain the difference between bourbon truffles, while I close my eyes and imagine I’m an 8 year old living at Willy Wonka’s house. Is that weird?
This tour being complementary is pure genius. After taking part, all I want to do is visit here and max out my credit card on chocolates every time I visit Lexington from here on out. Well done, OKC!