Dubai chocolate in Ireland: the bar behind the searches, and where it is actually made

The bar

A thick milk chocolate shell filled with pistachio cream and toasted kadayif, the shredded pastry that gives the bite its crunch. The name comes from the city where it went viral; the filling comes from further east. Pistachio is grown around Gaziantep and kadayif is made there in the same streets, which is why we were making pistachio and kadayif fillings long before the bar had a name, and why the bar is now made in Gaziantep in retail, gift and catering formats.

Where the searches go

Supermarket queries, Dublin chocolatiers that make their own, online shops that sell a single bar by courier, and the price question. An importer reads those searches differently: the demand is proven, the local supply is small batch and expensive, and a shelf-stable bar with a producer behind it is what the trade is missing. The chocolate page lists the bar and the pistachio tablets next to it; pistachio cream in jars, the filling on its own, is on the pistachio page.

What the Irish entry needs

The bar travels with an A.TR movement certificate under the EU–Türkiye customs union, and the offer states what applies to its agricultural component on the day. Milk chocolate contains dairy, so the EU rules for composite products apply and the attestation the entry needs is drawn up from our documents; the label follows the EU food information rules, with the responsible food business named on it. Chocolate is quoted in a reefer for the warm months.

The price question

The price is the question behind most of the Dublin and Cork searches, and for a shopper it is set by the courier and the small batch. For an importer the answer is in the offer: the price per bar in US dollars, the case count, the pallet plan, the tariff line and what applies to the agricultural component on the day under the customs union. Nothing that changes with the exchange rate or the season is printed on this site. A bar that lands by the pallet and sits on a supermarket shelf is a different product, at a different price, from a bar that arrives by courier, and that gap is what the searches are pointing at.

Under whose name

In our standard packs from the first container, or under your own brand: the Irish private label page goes through the formats, the label content and the artwork approval. A brand that wants to be first with a bar of its own on an Irish shelf has a producer for it.

What to send first

The lines from the chocolate page, the dragée page and the Turkish delight page, the quantity per line, the port, Dublin or Cork, and whether any line carries your own brand. The written offer follows within two working days, in US dollars and the A.TR paperwork listed; the samples page explains how to taste the lines first, and the Ireland page lists what stays the same on every offer.

Every line here is made in our own factory at Başpınar OSB, Gaziantep — a 10,000 m² site, exporting since 2002 — and certificate copies are available on request.