Godiva is to Chocolate Bar as Adele is to Noel Gallagher. Both singers have vocals chords. But you could never put them in the same box because they sound so different – and this is the same with these two buildings. How many times can you reinvent melted chocolate?

So here’s a new take on it. Both bars incorporate chocolate (and its stereotypes) in a very literal way throughout the space. However. Godiva’s dripping chocolate is regimented, pattern-like, and relatively small – the chocolate on the walls is not intended to be the focal point (obviously excluding the ceiling, which cheerfuly nestles somewhere between “theme park” and “lurid”). Chocolate Bar’s dripping chocolate is, in design terms, very much the opposite – stark, messy, and every bit the focal point it attempts to be.

So please can we sit back and enjoy the building for what it is? A wonderful, tiny space which they turned into the above. :)