Ghirardelli Dubai Chocolate Is Coming—Here’s How to Get It

Dubai chocolate is everywhere you look these days. I don’t know about the rest of the country, but you can’t swing a stick in L.A. without hitting a little cart that sells cups of strawberries drenched in melted chocolate, pistachio creme, and those crispy little bits of kataifi that make Dubai chocolate irresistible. That said, Big Chocolate has been slower to adopt the trend. Lindt launched a Dubai chocolate bar in June (spoiler: it’s good), but we’ve yet to see Dubai chocolate from Hershey’s or Mars (in the U.S., anyway). If you can call that a hole in the market, well, Ghirardelli is stepping in to fill it…sorta. Allow me to explain.

Yep, Ghirardelli Dubai chocolate is coming soon, but it’s not a bar…

Okay, what is it?? Well, I guess it could best be described as a bonbon. Like a truffle, but with a flat bottom. And instead of ganache, it’s filled with pistachio creme and kataifi. An image on the brand’s site of a bisected Ghirardelli Dubai chocolate indicates that there will also be little bits of pistachio embedded in the chocolate coating around the pistachio filling—and a pistachio drizzle on top, too. They look GOOD.

How can I get my hands on these things?

Well, you’re going to have to wait. Ghirardelli’s website says their Dubai style chocolate is “coming soon,” and there’s a form on the page where you can enter your email address to “join the waitlist below to be the first to know when it drops.”

If that simply won’t do and you happen to live in the L.A. area, the Ghirardelli ice cream shop in Santa Monica is currently offering a Dubai style chocolate sundae that looks INSANE. You get “layers of smooth vanilla ice cream, handmade hot fudge and our unique blend of creamy pistachio butter, toasted kataifi, white chocolate, and sea salt, topped with whipped cream, caramel drizzle, and a Ghirardelli Milk Chocolate Caramel Square.” Or, hey, you can grab Sporked’s favorite Dubai chocolate bar to tide you over.

About the Author

Howdy! I’m Gwynedd, Sporked’s managing editor. I live in Los Angeles and have access to the best tacos the U.S. has to offer—but I’m a sucker for a crunchy Old El Paso taco night every now and then. I’ve been at Sporked since 2022 and I’m still searching frozen mozzarella sticks that can hold a candle to restaurant sticks. Why you should trust me: I’ve been a journalist for 20 years (yikes), a consumer of food for 40-plus years, and I’m truly hard pressed to think of foods I don’t like (or that I can’t tolerate at the very least). Oh and one time I cooked my way through Guy Fieri’s cookbook and wrote about the journey through Flavortown. What I buy every week: Trader Joe’s Original Savory Thins. Fat free plain yogurt (usually Fage or Nancy’s). Honeycrisp apples. Sweet cream coffee creamer for my at-home Americanos. A frozen cauliflower crust pizza and some jarred mushrooms to top it with. Old El Paso Stand ‘N Stuff taco shells and Gardein Ground Be’f, even though I think “be’f” is a nightmarish contraction. Favorite ranking: Stouffer’s frozen dinners. I don’t own a microwave (I get my cancers the old fashioned way!), so I love taste testing things that I don’t really buy to eat at home. Least favorite ranking: Soy sauce. Don’t get me wrong, I love soy sauce—but consuming that much sodium in one sitting is probably illegal in some countries. Our frozen enchilada taste test was a close second; the smell of microwaved corn tortillas still haunts me.