Back for its third year, and this time, even more chocolate makers have come together
to spike their hot chocolate drinks with the wildest, most delicious flavours you can imagine.
23 CHOCSTARS — 27 DAYS — 60+ CRAZY FLAVOURS!
January 19 – February 14, 2013.
Chocolate makes you happy.
~~~~~~~ FIND A HOT CHOCOLATE BY VENUE ~~~~~~~
Beaucoup Bakery
Bel Cafe
Bella Gelateria + To Die For Banana Bread
Beta 5 Chocolates + The Juice Truck
Blenz Alma + Cocolico Chocolates
Blenz Thurlow + Kale & Nori Culinary Arts
Chocolate Arts
Chocolaterie de la Nouvelle France
Cocoa Nymph
French Made Baking
Gem Chocolates
Leonidas Chocolates
Rubens Chocolate
Schokolade
Soirette Macarons & Tea
Terra Breads
Thierry Chocolaterie Patisserie Cafe
Thomas Haas
~~~~~~~ CHOOSE A HOT CHOCOLATE BY FLAVOUR ~~~~~~~
Looking for a favourite flavour?
Hoping to try something wild and unsual?
Click HERE to see the Festival Flavour Index or use the column to the left.
JUST ADDED!! The “Hot Chocolate Festival’s
Find out how you can enter a photo of your hot chocolate to win the
CHOCOLATE GRAND PRIZE on Valentine’s Day.
~~~ THE FESTIVAL CHARITY – A BETTER LIFE FOUNDATION (OF VANCOUVER) ~~~
Funds raised from the 2013 Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival will be donated to Vancouver’s A Better Life Foundation.
Spearheaded by restaurateur Mark Brand and Canuck Place co-founder Joanne Griffiths, the Foundation seeks to create a self-sustaining meal program for people in assisted living and low-income housing. The program will also create dozens of jobs and training opportunities for people in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.
Brand aims for the program to feed 1,000 people and more every day in Vancouver’s inner city. However to be able to do so, without Government subsidy, the foundation will need to raise $750,000 — a goal they hope to reach with the help of initiatives (such as this one) taking place independently in the private sector and business community.
Says Griffiths, “A meal is everything. If you can’t get enough nutritious food, you can’t hope to function in any normal capacity whatsoever.”
To learn more about the Foundation, read this article in the Vancouver Sun.
(*The above photo of Mark Brand was taken by a Vancouver Sun staff photographer.)
