The Chocolate Factory Khaoyai

The Chocolate Factory Khaoyai is a chocolate shop and restaurant on the Khao Yai strip through Pak Chong, not a working factory with public tours. What draws people in is the glass-walled workshop at the back of the shop, where staff temper and mould chocolate in view of customers browsing the retail counter — genuine chocolate-making, but something you watch through a window rather than something you’re guided through.

The building splits into a chocolate and gift shop, a full restaurant serving Thai and Western dishes plus a dessert menu built around house chocolate, and a small playground outside for kids. Display cases hold truffles, bars, and seasonal chocolate items to take home, and a short paid chocolate-making workshop is occasionally on offer as an add-on — worth asking about at the counter rather than assuming it’s included, since it isn’t part of a standard visit. Reviews consistently describe prices as running on the higher end for the area, reflecting the restaurant-plus-retail setup rather than a simple market stall.

Entry to browse and watch the workshop windows is free; you pay only for what you eat, drink, or buy. Google reviews put it at roughly 4.4 out of 5 from several thousand visitors, with recent 2026 write-ups confirming it’s still open and operating normally — a reasonable sign for a roadside stop that can otherwise be hard to verify from a distance.

Insider Tip: Go in expecting a café-and-shop stop, not an educational factory tour, and you won’t be disappointed — the glass-walled chocolate workshop is a nice extra to watch while you wait for food, not the main event.

Watch out: The shop and the restaurant keep different hours — the shop opens around 09:30 but the restaurant doesn’t serve until about 11:00, so arriving early for lunch means a wait. Closing times also vary across listings (roughly 19:30 to 22:00 depending on zone and day), so if timing is tight, call ahead or check their Facebook page rather than relying on any single listed hour, including this one.

The shop sits directly on the main road through Mu Si subdistrict, easy to combine with a loop of Pak Chong’s other farm attractions — GranMonte Vineyard and Winery and Farm Chokchai are both a short drive away along the same corridor. Bring an insulated bag if you’re buying chocolate to carry onward, since Khao Yai’s lowland heat will melt loose bars fast in a hot car.