WHAT'S ON
HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION
On Saturday 31st Oct and Sunday 1st Nov
YOU CAN'T TRICK OR TREAT
Make your own Halloween chocolates
Our drop-in workshops this weekend will be dedicated to Halloween; you'll be able to make spooky chocolate truffles and lollies using a choice of Halloween sugar decorations, cutters and moulds;
You'll leave with a good few bags of chocolates to enjoy in your family environment;
Bookings are taken per household on your own table distant from others;
PRICES:
For 2 min. including one adult = £25
extra child: £9.50
extra adult: £12
For adults: £18 per person
Please email us to reserve a table (per household max 6),
or just turn up on the day
OCTOBER HALF-TERM WORKSHOPS
Our Family Half-term Chocolate Workshops will run on the 27th, 28th and 29th of October. We will offer Chocolate Painting, bar & its wrapper, and truffle making workshops, for children and their families.
Please see below for booking, a full description of the workshops and Covid-19 conditions and safety measures:
Chocolate Painting – TUESDAY 27TH
In this workshop you learn how to paint with chocolate from a professional art teacher and paint your own chocolate artwork. You will make a painting on canvas to hang on your wall or on a chocolate slab that you can eat later. You can also paint on edible paper and eat your artwork directly after you make it!
Chocolate Bar – WEDNESDAY 28TH
Have fun with your children while learning how to create your very own chocolate bar. You can choose your favourite chocolate and learn how to temper it; then be creative decorating with different colours and flavours. At the end of the workshop, each participant will have a delicious and handmade creation to take home!
Chocolate Truffle Making- THURSDAY 29TH (halloween theme)
Come with your children to our special Family Chocolate Truffle Making Workshop and make delicious chocolate truffles and lollies with them! You will learn how to temper chocolate, shape ganache and fudge, and get creative with our special decorations. At the end, each participant will take home a bag full of delicious creations.
WHEN: 27th 28th & 28th October 2020
TIME: 11.30am and 2.30pm
LENGTH: 1h30 session
PARTICIPANTS: 2 min, 4 max (min one adult)
WE COMPLY WITH COVID-19 SAFETY GUIDELINES
- Workshop participants have their own table distant from others (2 to 4 per table)
- Our facilitators wear a protective face visor and gloves
- A mask is provided at the door if you don't bring yours
- Use of antibacterial is available on site
- Tables are covered with baking paper and changed after each use
- Toilets and door handles are cleaned frequently
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Laura Reiman Farmers' Portraits Exhibition will be on the whole month of October
Visit during our weekend opening hours 11am to 6pm;
In celebration of Black History month portraits of cocoa farmers -painted with chocolate- from different parts of the world will be exhibited.
About 70% of the world’s cocoa production comes from West Africa nowadays, and throughout the history of chocolate consumption in Europe, cocoa would be cultivated by ‘invisible’ and mostly unpaid labour of farmers of African diaspora in the Caribbean and South America. With the portraits, the artist aims to make the faces of modern day farmers visible to the consumer and to recognize the labour of cocoa farmers worldwide, past and present.
Laura paints cocoa farmers and chocolate makers from all over the world with pure chocolate on canvas. She wants to make the faces behind the chocolate we consume visible with this collection of painted chocolate portraits. Just like human beings, the chocolate they are painted with ages, transforms, sometimes gets damaged. It makes the portraits vulnerable. But most of all the portraits show human beings from all parts of the world with their own dreams, life struggles and aspirations; all connected through chocolate.
FILM "SETTING THE BAR" - ONLINE VIEWING
For the one who couldn't attend the World Cocoa and Farmer's Day event, you can still watch the film online
"SETTING THE BAR" Special Screening:
Director Tim Shephard tells the story of chocolate from bean in the Amazon to bar in high-end cafes and stores. The film will follow a group of craft-chocolate makers as they venture into the Peruvian jungle to strengthen direct relationships with farmer communities and identify new kinds of cacao to bring to market. It will explore the economic realities of farmers and artisans, and capture the passion and sense of adventure of this inspiring group of people.
DROP-IN WORKSHOPS on Weekends only
Drop-in is a diy chocolate making session where you will make chocolates on your own following instructions with the help of our assistants on site.
On Saturday and Sunday 11.30am to 5.30pm; More info here
We usually don't take booking, but under the circumstances, you can now book to ensure seating without waiting. Pls email us using the button below;
CHOCO-TALE on Weekends only
ChocoTale is a chocolate filled interactive tasting trail (using Gamar App). Following the history of the cacao bean, from the Mayans all the way to current day chocolateering, you can now experience a sensory-stimulating journey through the evolutionary world of chocolate, with our special tasting gift box including 13 different chocolates from Mayan traditions to modern artisan chocolatier, Melange Chocolate in Peckham;
On-going Chocolate Jewellery Exhibition by KRIWO
Visual artist Kristiane Wolf will exhibit and sell her amazingly sexy chocolate earrings at the Chocolate Museum. They are an expression of the natural forms that occur while using dripping techniques - much like Jackson Pollock did with paint.
Her wonderful creations will melt when worn on the skin so they are meant to be eaten before they do!
To learn more about KRIWO's art projects have a look at the artist's website here:
On-going chocolate sculpture exhibition by Hatzidakis Emmanouil
CHOCOLATE SCULPTING EXHIBITION
"Chocolate feelings"
Hatzidakis Emmanouil is a creative, enthusiastic, hardworking pastry chef with a passion for food and lots of experience working in busy hotels and pastry shops in Greece. At the age of 16 he studied at SCHOOL OF TOURIST PROFESSIONS in CRETE and since then he has always known that being in a kitchen, preparing amazing pastries for others, is where I want to be. After completing his apprenticeship in 1995 he worked in a number of pastry stores before starting to hotels, where he was employed for over twenty years as pastry chef at a busy four and five stars hotels. He is very efficient and it was here that he developed a much more productive system of pastries prep, which was commended by the chef de cuisine. He also gained experience in managing, staff rosters, pricing and ordering for a large establishment. His specialty is chocolate desserts and decoration, which he has won a number of prestigious awards in Mediterranean Competitions. Last years he organized several "Chocolate" charity exhibitions all around Europe collected money for several Non-profit organizations.