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did you know seattle has a chocolate festival? one ticket gives you free samples of all the chocolate you can possibly eat.
i'm not as huge of a chocolate fan as some, but i like always having a decent-to-good quality bar around—while i can blitz through a whole bowl of M&Ms in ten seconds flat, just a few chunks of really rich dark chocolate leaves me very satisfied all on its own, so it's an A+ 10/10 snack.
anyway, two recommendations from the festival!
* amano artisan chocolate is extremely impressed with itself ("single origin" beans for about half their bars, touts lots of fancy awards, etc), but for good reason—i think it was the best "just plain dark chocolate" i tried the whole day. (and i tried a lot of chocolate.) i can vouch for their Madagascar and Guayas River Basin chocolate being particularly delicious, though i'm sure it's all good. i don't know if it's just the marketing getting into my head or what, but you really can taste different notes in the different types of beans and they come through really really well.
* harper macaw's grapefruit soda bar was the most delightfully strange chocolate i tried—the carbonated sugar gives it a bit of a "pop rocks" effect where it bubbles in your mouth after you take a bite! but it turns out grapefruit is a great flavor and it ends up being both strange and delicious. (also the packaging is really ridiculously pretty??? there was SO MUCH fun packaging design going on at this festival, y'all)
honorable mention to omnom chocolate's black n burnt barley, which i would not want to eat a whole bar of but was really weird and fun to try so full points for creativity.
given that i can't drink wine as much as i used to, maybe i should get into like, artisanal chocolates or whatever. the festival was fun for just seeing the sheer variety that exists, just as much fun as the variety in wine, and chocolate keeps for way longer, so!
i'm not as huge of a chocolate fan as some, but i like always having a decent-to-good quality bar around—while i can blitz through a whole bowl of M&Ms in ten seconds flat, just a few chunks of really rich dark chocolate leaves me very satisfied all on its own, so it's an A+ 10/10 snack.
anyway, two recommendations from the festival!
* amano artisan chocolate is extremely impressed with itself ("single origin" beans for about half their bars, touts lots of fancy awards, etc), but for good reason—i think it was the best "just plain dark chocolate" i tried the whole day. (and i tried a lot of chocolate.) i can vouch for their Madagascar and Guayas River Basin chocolate being particularly delicious, though i'm sure it's all good. i don't know if it's just the marketing getting into my head or what, but you really can taste different notes in the different types of beans and they come through really really well.
* harper macaw's grapefruit soda bar was the most delightfully strange chocolate i tried—the carbonated sugar gives it a bit of a "pop rocks" effect where it bubbles in your mouth after you take a bite! but it turns out grapefruit is a great flavor and it ends up being both strange and delicious. (also the packaging is really ridiculously pretty??? there was SO MUCH fun packaging design going on at this festival, y'all)
honorable mention to omnom chocolate's black n burnt barley, which i would not want to eat a whole bar of but was really weird and fun to try so full points for creativity.
given that i can't drink wine as much as i used to, maybe i should get into like, artisanal chocolates or whatever. the festival was fun for just seeing the sheer variety that exists, just as much fun as the variety in wine, and chocolate keeps for way longer, so!
