Friars were established in 1927 as a family business and remain in the same family.

We have high street stores located in Keswick and Ambleside.

We stock some of the best chocolate available in the UK, and all our chocolate gifts are designed in-house so you will not find them anywhere else.

Our luxurious offering makes it easy for you to be original, so you can give luxury gifts that taste and look amazing and will be remembered.

We were the first to make a prosecco truffle and then shortly after we followed with our fabulous gin truffle. More recently; although Easter eggs are synonymous with Easter, we decided to move away from the mainstream and invented our famous hot cross bun truffle.

We have also been lead innovators in developing plant based chocolate with flavoured centres, this an area that we are very passionate about and continue to develop.

Any new chocolate must meet certain requirements to get past our strict tasting panel. If one of the panels gives a score below 9/10 then we simply won’t offer the chocolate to our customers.

We spend a lot of time working with unusual, often small scale continental chocolate brands to bring something different to the UK. As ever, the chocolate has to be exceptional otherwise we will not introduce it to you lovely people.

We are immensely proud of our historic routes and in this fast-moving, ever-changing world, we take pride in our tradition and heritage. The first chocolates that William sold way back in 1927, were rose and violet creams and to this day, they remain amongst our most popular chocolates.

We have survived and prospered over the last 90 years and we fully intend to be around for the next 100 years.