Cuban chocolate is a very high standard chocolate, because it is produced by the cocoa from Guantanamo region where the first cocoa plantations were started by the French in 1650s. As of today, these cocoa farms still exist, and they export most of their cocoa.

The Museo del Chocolate occupies the ground floor of the Casa de la Cruz Verde (House of the Green Cross) since 2003. When you approach the corner of the Chocolate Museum, you can smell the flavor on the street. The admission is free, but there may be a line outside, particularly in the afternoon.

The place acquaints itself with the name chocolate museum, but it would more appropriate to call it the Café Fábrica de Chocolate, because all the products of cocoa tasted here, were produced in this place. You can even watch how the chocolate assortments are made at the back of the premises. There are two rooms where you can taste your chocolate: the main air-conditioned hall where the visitors sit around the round marble tables, and the other smaller one in the courtyard in the back of the main hall that most of the visitors usually miss.

While the visitor sip a warming cup of hot chocolate or a soothing glass of cold chocolate, it is also possible to take a look at the panels on the walls of the main hall that will take you on a tour through the history of the chocolate, its harvesting and production, since it was discovered by the Spanish conquistadors in the New World and its use in this geographical area before the European colonization. There are also a few posters of famous foreign and national chocolate companies from various times.

In the center of the main hall stands a large four-sided glass case where a collection of porcelain chocolate cups from England, Germany, France and Italy are exhibited. These exponents are from the 19th and 20th centuries. The French mustache cup, the cup with a semicircular ledge inside that serves as a guard to keep the mustache dry, is an interesting piece of the porcelain collection. There are also some bakelite molds, used to make chocolate shapes, and a container for jams, donated by the Museum of the Royal Square of Brussels. The glass case contains some ceramic chocolate pots, pitchers and large English ceramic bowls, found in archaeological excavations of the historic center. A sampling of the ingredients that were used in the production of the chocolate and old Belgian chocolate packaging materials are also exhibited in the glass case.

If you want to drink something cold, you can taste the cold chocolate (milk, bitter chocolate paste with honey) that is thick and slightly bitter. There are two kinds of hot chocolate: the traditional hot chocolate (milk and chocolate bars flavored with cinnamon and vanilla) and Aztec style hot chocolate (milk and chocolate bars flavored with pepper and nutmeg)

At a separate counter you can buy solid chocolate, dark, milky or white, or chocolate shapes that are in figure of animals, such as rabbit, hen, bear, lion, fish, frog, turtle, dolphin, squirrel, duck and horse, or some objects, such as guitar, cigar, heart, shoe, old car, airplane and casket. The visitor can buy also chocolate filled with different fruits, such as raisin, orange, lemon, mandarin, almond, hazelnut, or chocolate bars, bitter, white, milky or filled with dried fruits. In all these products the chocolate is of good quality and they melt quickly, as they are made on site with no preservatives of any kind.

Every Tuesday and Friday at 11 o’clock in the morning, the visitors can watch the demonstration of the techniques, applied to the artisan production of chocolates or taste the drink, prepared in the traditional way adding nutmeg and sweet pepper.