The Chocolate Week Blog
Chocolate Unwrapped at The Real Food Festival
Thursday 6th May
Chocolate Unwrapped our dedicated chocolate show is at The Real Food Festival this weekend, 7th-9th May. We’ve brought some of the best UK chocolatiers, along with new international chocolate companies together in one indulgent chocolate-filled area. Visitors to the show will be able to attend demo’s and chocolate tastings from the glitterati of the chocolate world, taste new chocolates and meet their favourite chocolatiers. We’ve got a packed calender of demonstrations at the festival,…
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Artisan du Chocolat open three new Selfridges concessions
Saturday 24th April
Good news for chocolate fans in Birmingham and Manchester. Artisan du Chocolat have recently opened two new stores in Selfridges, Exchange Square, Manchester and Selfridges Birmingham with Artisan at Selfridges Trafford Centre to follow in June. The three new Artisan du chocolat shops follow Artisan’s design aesthetic whilst also reflecting its location. Gerard and his team now conche and refine cacao beans from South America, Caribbean and the Far East to create a great selection of chocolate…
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BBC chocolate programme, The Bitter Truth
Thursday 8th April
We’re a little bit late with this one but if you watched Panorama: Chocolate, the Bitter Truth a couple of weeks ago on BBC1 then you’ll know that it had quite an impact. We thought it was, on the whole, a great programme for raising awareness and promoting the fact that consumers need to have take more responsibility for the food that they’re consuming and for it’s source. Reporter Paul Kenyon travelled to West Africa to investigate child labour in cocoa plantations and…
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New chocolate producer in the UK
Saturday 20th March
We recently went to see Duffy Sheardown, a new chocolate producer based in the seaside town of Cleethorpes. He has a fairly basic set up from which he’s producing some really great chocolate. There’s a full write up of our trip on: seventypercent.com Duffy will be joining the Chocolate Unwrapped area at The Real Food Festival,
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Pierre Hermé arrives in London
Thursday 28th January
Exciting news! The World famous patissier and chocolatier Pierre Hermé is to open up in London. It’s wonderful for London’s chocolate lovers and foodies as Hermé is extremely highly regarded, probably most known for his wonderful macarons. A collection of his macarons and chocolates will be available in Selfridges from 5th February with plans to open a boutique later on this year. We’ve heard a few rumours about where the shop is going to be with SW1 being the most persistent.…
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