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Salon du Chocolate – WIN a Pair of Tickets

Well, here it is – the start of chocolate week and I think I’ve got something to do with a giveaway EVERY DAY this week! To start with, I’m giving away FIVE PAIRS of tickets to the London event of the ...

Gaucho Chocolate Week Special Menu

I was invited to Gaucho to taste their special Chocolate Week menu. Now, those of you who know me know that Gaucho is not in my happy bunny books but I decided to give them a chance and go to ...

ChocTails from Dean Street – Chocolate Week Event

In a lovely end-of-terrace house still occupied by the owner in Soho, five chocolatiers set up with five paired cocktails to present a co-ordinated event of National Chocolate Week and London Cocktail Week. This event was an amazing display of ...

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An Evening of Chocolate and Cheese with Chococo and Paxton & Whitfield

I’m not a huge fan of chocolate and cheese so when Chococo offered me the chance to go to an evening of nothing but chocolate and cheese, I hesitated. I hesitated for a long time, I hummed, I hawed, I ...

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Direct Cacao Launches Initiative to Link Farmers with Chocolate Makers

For a long time, in certain areas of the world, cocoa farming has been a poverty crop. In areas where it isn’t, it may be stolen after harvest and sold on the black market, robbing the farmer of their livelihood. ...

An Amadei Adventure With Cecilla

Regular readers (or whose who have used the archives) will know that I have had limited success with Amadei. You’ll have read my scathing review of their Chuao and my mixed review of the meh milk chocolate and each time ...

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Chocolate Week Menu at Benito’s Hat

Benito’s Hat has four locations around London and for the week of Chocolate Week they will be adding to their menu one of the most quintessentially Mexican of Mexican foods – mole! But this is not just any mole – ...

Chocolate Week Cometh… And With it CHOCOLATE UNWRAPPED

It’s that time of the year when the leaves begin to change, the nights seem to be getting earlier and the chill of the day isn’t always removed by the sun. The wheel turns, the seasons change and once again ...

Chocolate Unwrapped – An Event in Retrospect

It has come and it has gone for yet another year but Chocolate Unwrapped will linger in my memory for years to come I am sure.  The event which started in a hotel in Mayfair has grown from humble roots ...

Chocolate Dim Sum at the Grand Imperial

It was an amazing sight - tucked up a stairway at the corner around from Victoria mainline station was a gem. This glorious find is passed by by everyone except those initiated into it's secret & I'm here now to ...

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