El Quetzal de Mindo
El Quetzal de Mindo
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8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Monday
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Thursday
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Friday
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Saturday
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Sunday
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
About
See an Award-winning artisan small-batch chocolate maker. Learn how chocolate is made on-site. Learn about harvesting, fermentation, drying, roasting. See cocoa fruit on trees growing in our garden, taste fresh cacao fruit. Walk through our gardens where you will also see coffee, banana and guava trees. Also a variety of tropical and medicinal plants growing on our grounds. You will have a chance to view small-batch chocolate making in progress and taste plenty of samples including our world-famous brownies. Chocolate bars and other locally made products and artisan goods are available for purchase. We also have a festive evening tour available with local drumming. The Leyenda de Chocolate tour takes you back in time experiencing how chocolate has been made for 5,000 years. Ask for both tours! Beer brewed on-site, coffee grown and roasted on-site. Just up the hill from the central park from Main Street in Mindo, Ecuador. Don't miss this unique experience. Look for El Quetzal!
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Catherine O
2 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Mar 2024 • Family
Very informative, friendly guide, delicious chocolate. We really enjoyed it! We learned all about their process of making chocolate, walked around a beautiful farm, and had a tasting at the end. Everyone was friendly and informative
Written 14 March 2024
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Aleks N
Calmar, Canada74 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2024 • Family
This was a very interesting and delicious tour of how chocolate is made right from picking of the beans to packaging the chocolate. This is a small company with an interesting story. Includes a lot of sampling😊
Written 9 February 2024
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leedelee
Kitchener,ON22 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jan 2024 • Couples
Had a wonderful tour about chocolate with Carolina! So informative! We got to see all the steps, learned about the different types of cacao trees and how to tell the difference. Sampled along the way including cacao tea which I had never heard of.
Written 25 January 2024
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Don E
6 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Dec 2023 • Family
I am a bit of a travel snob and generally hate touristy tours. This one was informative, the right length and the garden part of the tour excellent.
Written 31 December 2023
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Ellen M
2 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Sept 2023 • Friends
This was a great tour! We loved Miguel, who explained so much about the chocolate making process, and was kind and funny the whole time. The tasting at the end was delicious, and we got some great chocolates to go home and dinner in their restaurant.
Overall, I would highly recommend. A kind and welcoming atmosphere the whole time.
Written 5 September 2023
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Kathryn F
1 contribution
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Mar 2023
We loved this. Our guide, Angel, was terrific. I loved hearing about the importance of the ceremony. The music was excellent. We loved that we participated in making the chocolate drink. It was so fun.
Written 3 April 2023
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Krista L
Pittsburgh, PA55 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jan 2023
The Mindo chocolate tour was an educational and fun experience. Not only did we get to try cacao and chocolate at various stages of its preparation, we got to learn about growing the cacao and enjoy some of the fruits grown on the property as well. We really liked trying some of the unique flavors, such as salt and pepper and ginger!
Written 23 January 2023
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MrSudbury
Sudbury, Canada52 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
On an open fire, it’s your turn to make chocolate cocoa from scratch like they did hundreds of years ago. It tastes so much better when you take the time to roast the cocoa beans, strip the shell, crush it into a paste, and then mix in a hot pot
Written 4 November 2022
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Gábor O
7 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Oct 2022 • Couples
Just a wonderful experience, a very nice hour spent with everything that's chocolate. You learn about how cocoa beans are grown, fermented, dried, how chocolate is made, etc etc, whilst also can have a look at some other plants grown in the gardens.
Once you are finished with the tour, you get to taste a LOT of chocolate products made locally, all of them are of excellent quality. You also get to buy anything you tasted afterwards in the little shop inside. Fully recommended if you like chocolate, definitely a must do if you are in Mindo! Thank you!
Written 7 October 2022
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Madhumati M
London25 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jan 2022 • Family
We did the one hour tour as a family of four. Sergio was wonderfully friendly enthusiastic and informative. He was very kind and lovely to our children.

He showed us the ingredients of chocolate, we were able to taste the fruit and then the products at various stages. We then looked at where the fruit is grown, dried and processed. The garden was beautiful and worth seeing in its own right. We then ended by trying the various chocolates, and enjoyed tea and a brownie (best I have ever had). I would highly recommend this tour and great value at $10 per adult and $6 for each child.
Written 26 January 2022
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