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Seattle Chocolate Haunted Factory Experience

Seattle Chocolate Haunted Factory Experience

A factory without power, no chocolate to be found, and something sinister lurking in the dark: will you brave the haunted factory and restore chocolate to all? Fun for ages 8 to 100!

The Northwest Chocolate Festival 

The Northwest Chocolate Festival 

Attend the festival, watch the seminars, and meet the chocolate makers. 

8 of Seattle's Best Chocolate Shops

8 of Seattle’s Best Chocolate Shops

A mix of new shops and old favorites perfect for picking up a sweet treat or special gift

Beautiful hand-rolled truffles are an occasional treat at Theo’s Fremont factory shop.

Hey, Bellevue! You're getting a chocolate pop-up

Hey, Bellevue! You’re getting a chocolate pop-up

Seattle Chocolate Company opens jcoco shop June 1

As if there wasn’t already ample eye candy at The Bellevue Collection, on June 1, the Seattle Chocolate Company will unveil its first standalone chocolate shop inside the Eastside shopping mecca. The pop-up will focus on jcoco, the company’s line of brightly-wrapped fine chocolate bars in tempting flavors like Peanut Strawberry Baobab and Black Fig…

Chocolate for Heart Health

Chocolate for Heart Health

!–paging_filter–pChocolate in pill form sounds like a dubious concept–doesn’t that take all the fun out of it? Perhaps, but it may also be the best way to serve up its nutrients for heart health, something Fred Hutchinson researchers are setting out to learn more about. In partnership with Boston’s Brigham Women’s Hospital, they are a…

Tour Seattle's Chocolate Factories

Tour Seattle’s Chocolate Factories

No Oompa Loompas at these candy-making centers, but peeking behind the sugary curtain is a delight.

Theo ChocolateRevamped in 2012, the tour at Fremont’s 6-year-old Theo Chocolate is more educational than Willy Wonka–ish. It starts with a 30-minute seminar that includes not just how chocolate is made, but why Theo set out to change the way cacao is sourced. (The company is part of a fair-trade network that polices the cooperatives…

A Bucket List for the Seattle Chocoholic

A Bucket List for the Seattle Chocoholic

If we could create our dream box of chocolates, these 10 local treats would be in it.

Chocolate grows on trees, but after testing and tasting everything Theobroma cacao, we’ve learned one thing: Not all chocolate is created equal. It’s all made from seeds from a football-shaped fruit that grows in the globe’s equatorial regions. But everything from where it’s grown to how it’s made affects taste and quality—and some chocolate treats…

Seattle's Best Sipping Chocolate

Seattle’s Best Sipping Chocolate

We scoured the city for its best liquid indulgences: thick, rich, hot melted chocolate and milk.

ChocolatiCayenne Hot ChocolateIf you’d abandon subtlety and nuance in favor of a hot chocolate with eye-popping flavor, Chocolati’s flavored hot chocolate menu is for you. Try the cayenne, with big, hot high notes that hit your sinuses right as you sip, then mellow as you get farther into the cup. $2.95 for 8 ounces of…

Seattle's Classic Chocolates

Seattle’s Classic Chocolates

Tried-and-true favorites from longtime local chocolate makers.

DilettanteLet’s zoom out on this a bit: There’s a restaurant in Seattle’s Capitol Hill ’hood that makes almost a dozen versions of chocolate martinis ($10.50) any night of the week, and it’s busy—all the time. We haven’t flipped back to 1990; Dilettante Mocha Café is genuinely popular. Which means that no matter how much we…

Field Guide to Seattle Chocolate & Candy

Field Guide to Seattle Chocolate & Candy

The complete compendium of Seattle’s best sugary treats including plenty of chocolate.

No gift rings more cliché than a box of chocolate or candy for Valentine’s Day—except maybe in Seattle. Our city harbors a mind-blowing array of amazing boutique chocolate producers, from purveyors such as Fran Bigelow, whose famous brand Fran’s is now in its 30th year, to sourcing experts such as Theo Chocolate, which is now…

Seattle’s New Drinking Chocolate Tour

Seattle’s New Drinking Chocolate Tour

Hundreds of years before it became a confectionary bar, chocolate was a popular savory drink. Legend has it that Aztec emperor Montezuma flavored it with orange and chilies and used it like a pre-cursor to Red Bull, consuming up to 50 cups a day for its energizing effects. On the Tour De Haut Chocolate tour…

Road Trip to Enumclaw Chocolate Festival

Road Trip to Enumclaw Chocolate Festival

Savor locally crafted chocolates and wines at the third annual Wine and Chocolate Festival.

Where Enumclaw for the third annual Wine and Chocolate Festival (2/4–2/5; Enumclaw Expo Center, 45224 284th Ave. SE; enumclawchocolatefestival.com). Why: This year’s event features an indulgent lineup of locally made truffles and flavored chocolates, plus pours from 22 Washington wineries. Pair for the course: Savor salted caramels from Newcastle-based Sweet Decadence and sip a Merlot…

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