Little Otto's Big Choc Shop

Made in: Busselton, South West WA
From Margaret River: about 40 min by car
Facts checked: 27 September 2026

Drive times from the OSRM router, rounded to 5 minutes. Road data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

A chocolate shop on the Busselton foreshore with its own production room, making rocky road, coated honeycomb, pretzels and drinking chocolate, plus gelato.

Little Otto's Big Choc Shop opened on the Busselton foreshore around Easter 2025, in the building that used to be the town's tennis club. The chocolate is made on the spot: the production room sits behind a bright orange wall, and free tours go behind it every day, finishing with a tasting.

The name comes from a piece of local history. In 1897 a blue whale washed up in the Vasse River inlet, and the town called him Otto. His skeleton ended up at the museum in Perth. The shop tells its own cheerful, mostly true version of his story on its website.

The range is built for grazing and giving: rocky road in three sizes, honeycomb and salted pretzels coated in dark chocolate, roasted nuts, chocolate tablets, little sea creatures moulded in chocolate, buttons for baking, and a house drinking chocolate. The maker says its base chocolate has no gluten, but some of the things added to it do, and each listing says which.

Gelato is made on site too, and sold from a takeaway window at the shop. It's frozen, so it's sold there in person only, never online. The chocolate ships Australia-wide by express post from Busselton, or you can collect an order from the shop.

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The story

Where it's made Busselton

What Little Otto's Big Choc Shop makes

What's new down south

In our guides

Three hours south, and where to stop

End-of-year teacher gifts from WA makers

Stocking fillers made in WA

Secret Santa gift ideas made in WA

The coast is free. The caves are not.

Busselton cruise ship schedule, and what's a walk from the jetty