Meet Nick

Nick was part of the Great British coffee boom of the 90’s working in one of the first independent coffee roasters in the North of England. He combined being a barista and student and after graduating from Leeds University he taught English in Spain, falling in love with the culture and the Spanish attitude towards food. He returned to the UK and became a journalist and foreign Correspondent with the BBC. His final posting was in Jamaica, the country his parents had left over 40 years before. The food was his entry point into an island he thought he knew but surprised him on a daily basis. Kingston is now his home. He decided to start making his own chocolate after developing a life threatening food allergy. “Sulphites are in almost everything and are seen as key to modern food production, but I like to keep things clean and as natural as possible, it not only keeps me alive but it tastes fantastic too".  One One Cacao operate out of a waterside chocolate lab on Jamaica's north coast. 

Bean To Bar

We make chocolates from Bean to Bar, in this age of mass produced, cookie cutter food, we hunt out exceptional cacao from heirloom trees and turn it into memorable chocolate, that leaves behind more than what melts using two ingredients, cane sugar and cacao. We also use the finest single origin cocoa butter to make luxurious white chocolate and combine it with Caribbean super foods like coconut, turmeric, soursop, sorrel and cashew, Jamaican sea salt, naseberry, vanilla pods, cinnamon  and nutmeg to create something local but incredible.

Chocolate Shop

We make our chocolate at the "Cookshop", this commercial kitchen overlooking a marine sanctuary and beyond the Caribbean Sea. I believe it’s the only chocolate factory in the world this close to the sea or at least with such an amazing sea view but what I definitely know is that it’s a wonderful place to work and enjoy what we do. We invite you when in Jamaica to come and visit and also to come and make your own chocolate. We do a number of experiences where you get to taste chocolate infused rum and cocoa nib tea and make your own bars, grinding the nibs and pouring the chocolate into molds before heading home with your own tasty creation.