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MÖRK JOURNEY, CHADSTONE

Opening a store in Chadstone was a big step for us, having built our name in small tucked away locations in central Melbourne.

This was a chance to meet new people, expand our dine in experiences, and celebrate the big journey we have made so far.

We wanted to create a concept that felt like a journey in itself, stepping out of the hectic centre air and into a space that celebrated every moment, every sound, every scent of chocolate. The anticipation of opening a wrapper, the textures, the colours and those memories of chocolate that somehow stay with us from childhood.

Together with @colabdesignstudio , we created a store filled with eye catching details and clues, and an island just for steaming chocolate at the centre.

Layers of rich brown and terracotta, and in the ceiling, our giant chocolate fountain made from cascading brown rope. It still makes us smile when people ask if it is real chocolate.

Brining fresh pastries from our North Melbourne bakery, bean to bar chocolate made at our chocolate factory lining the shelves, and getting to know the regulars and introducing Mörk to people discovering us for the first time. It’s what it has been all about.

And, most importantly, warmth of hospitality.

Chadstone gave us the opportunity to bring so many parts of Mörk together in one place.

📍 Mörk Chocolate, Chadstone

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MÖRK LOOKING GLASS, CENTRE PLACE

Some places in Melbourne are iconic.

We remember walking down this laneway for the first time. Narrow, busy, slightly chaotic and full of character. Tables spilling onto the pavement, people squeezing past each other, the smell of coffee and food drifting through the lane, and that constant hum that somehow makes Centre Place feel alive at almost any time of day.

When we first spotted this abandoned storefront, our minds began to wander. What if we could build a something that fits right in to this bustling laneway, but transports visitors. A sort of looking glass into our world of chocolate. This was our chance to show another side of Mörk that usually is hid in the background.

Stories of our cacao roasting and chocolate making, swapping stories with chocolate makers and mixologists here, and hosting cacao farmers and scientists from other parts of the world.

We held dreamy chocolate tastings in our room above the store, transporting guests to a magical world of cheese with @smellycheeseco, to the freezing winters of Sweden with our Northern Series bar project, to unique cacao experiences from Fukuoka, Japan with @cacaogoto

We have watched Centre Place change around us. We have seen quiet days, impossibly busy days, Melbourne winters when everyone is huddled under awnings, and summer afternoons when there is barely enough room to walk down this lane.

And through all of it, this little shop has become part of the Melbourne story.

📍 Mörk Chocolate Looking Glass, Centre Place, Melbourne

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MÖRK MARKET, QUEEN VICTORIA MARKET

The moment we became a trader at Australia’s largest owner operated market, life changed.

When we opened Mörk in the Dairy Produce Hall, it truly felt like we were becoming a small part of something much bigger than ourselves.

This is a place with generations of history. A place where people have come to shop, eat, trade and meet for more than a century. Where traders know their regulars by name, where local producers matter and are celebrated, a place of family traditions and habits.

For us, it was also a chance to bring Mörk to a new audience.

Instead of people coming specifically to our Mörk store, suddenly we were part of their Saturday morning shop. Their walk through the market. Their weekly ritual.

As Josefin and I got to know the early morning energy, the midday peak, the afternoon lull, we got to know the faces and voices of the market. It is made up of people, of family businesses and new venturers, all adding to the evolving energy of this place.

It feels very Melbourne.

Busy, slightly chaotic, full of characters and surrounded by some incredible independent food businesses.

And somewhere amongst all of that, we founded our new little piece of Mörk.

📍 Dairy Produce Hall, Queen Victoria Market

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MÖRK ELEVATOR, EQUITABLE PLACE

Sometimes the strangest spaces make the best destinations.

When we first found 20 Equitable Place, there really wasn’t much to look at. A roller shutter in a Melbourne laneway, hiding what was essentially an old elevator shaft. Around six square metres of space, no room for customers inside, and no obvious reason why it should become a chocolate shop.

Naturally, we loved it.

Five years ago we opened Mörk Elevator. Our second Mörk store and a completely different idea to the Brew House. If North Melbourne was a place to sit down and immerse yourself in the world of drinking chocolate, Elevator had to somehow squeeze that same experience into one tiny window.

Every centimetre mattered. We needed to fit a working chocolate bar, equipment, storage, retail shelves and a person or two into a space barely bigger than some people’s wardrobes.

And somehow, it worked.

Over the years this tiny window has become part of the daily rhythm of Equitable Place. Morning regulars, office workers, city wanderers, tourists who stumble across us by accident, and familiar faces stopping for chocolate on their way through the laneway.

It has survived a city in change, impossibly busy days, extreme Melbourne weather and some particularly strange years for the CBD. Through all of it, the little window kept opening.

Five years later, Mörk Elevator sits tight, a window into the world of Mörk. Ridiculously small, and our love for it is endless.

20 Equitable Place, Melbourne. 🤎

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MÖRK BREW HOUSE, NORTH MELBOURNE

This place holds a lot of memories.

We opened the Brew House on Errol Street in 2015. It’s almost hard to believe it’s been eleven years.

Mörk was still a young brand back then. We had spent the first few years building the business, making our dark drinking chocolates and helping people to realise that hot chocolate could be so much more.

Then came this space. Our first proper home.

Looking back at old photos, the transformation was incredible. On a limited budget, with the help of friends and working endlessly long nights, we managed to turn a darkly lit office and a wonky garage driveway, into a bright little all-chocolate cafe.

We wanted to show Melbourne our passion for drinking chocolate, for the world of craft chocolate. Our menu had wild experiments and nostalgic recreations of drinks from childhood, all served with great hospitality and vivid storytelling.

We have seen customers go through stages of their lives with us, many celebrated big and small moments here, visitors from near and far have stumbled through our doors upon a cafe world where the number one obsession isn’t in fact coffee. Our own kids grew up here.

Mörk too has grown up in this time, learning life lessons and business lessons, finding new roads and spaces beyond this little shop, and our chocolate making now happens in our factory just around the corner. But the Brew House still feels like home.

Eleven years on, it’s pretty special to stand in the same room and think about everything that has happened since the first day we opened our doors.

150 Errol Street, North Melbourne. 🤎

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