Queen Anne Chocolates makes its chocolate in a factory at 3 Craft Place in Middleton, Christchurch, with a factory shop where the full range is on display. The business began in the 1920s, when the founder's grandfather, Ernest Adams, set it up, and it marked its 100th year in 2025. The Middleton factory opened in 2022 after eleven years in an earlier factory in Sockburn ran out of space. Chocolate fish are the signature product, in milk chocolate with strawberry marshmallow, dark chocolate with raspberry marshmallow, and mint. Other lines include Christmas Bells in December, salted caramels, apricot cremes made with Otago dried apricots, the Heritage Selection box, bars and selection boxes. The company says its products are gluten free, with natural flavours and fillings.
Customers talk most about the chocolate fish, with a thick chocolate shell and a soft marshmallow centre, and one buyer called them supreme. The Heritage Selection box and the strawberry chocolate hearts also get praise. One customer ordered a Mother's Day package, found it so good they reordered, and said delivery to the North Island was fast. Visitors describe the factory shop as a destination in Christchurch, with a shelf of seconds. Our pick in Middleton for a New Zealand made chocolate fish.