Leonidas is a Belgian chocolatier, and one of the few whose shopfront you recognise before you have read the sign. It opened in Belval Plaza II on Thursday 1 October 2026, two weeks after the centre announced it alongside Devred.
The model is the one the brand has always run on: chocolates sold loose by weight and made up into a ballotin at the counter, alongside ready-made boxes and the seasonal ranges.
The timing matters. A chocolate shop opening in October is opening for the gift season. Saint Nicolas falls on 6 December and Christmas follows, and those few weeks are what a chocolatier’s year is built around.
It is not the first Leonidas in Esch. There is already a counter inside the Cactus at Lallange, on rue de Mondercange, which is where this errand has meant going until now.


