The Cocoa Project by EastLand, are Jordan’s first bean-to-bar & micro-batch chocolate makers.

We opened our workshop as part of continuing a family tradition of making of chocolate since 1959. Although that was a very large scale, industrial operation working with tonnes of chocolate a day, our humble capacity is working in slightly smaller 8kg batches. We strive to make the best chocolate rather than the most chocolate.

We decided to bring chocolate back into our lives in 2017, but this time as micro-batch, bean-to-bar chocolate. Living in Toronto at the time, we started experimenting in our apartment with roasting different beans, tasting the different flavors of each origin & ending up in the emergency room with a nearly chopped off finger working our first batch!

Our test subjects were our friends & families, who we bombarded with endless supplies of good (& not so good) bars of chocolate.

At our current workspace in the heart of one of Amman’s oldest neighborhoods, we roast, crack, sort, winnow, grind, & temper small batches of beans. Each bar is then molded & packaged by hand.

We use no additives, emulsifiers or artificial flavoring.

We only source high quality, ethically sourced, direct trade & where possible organic cacao beans that ensure better prices for farmers, better cacao beans for us & ultimately better chocolate for you.

Through our range of products, we use the entire cocoa bean & are aiming to be a zero waste manufacturing operation.

We’re so excited to introduce micro-batch, bean-to-bar chocolate to Amman.