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The Chocolate Festival returns to London’s Southbank Centre for one weekend in December.
The festival is free to visit and will feature award-winning chocolatiers William Curley, Damian Allsop, Paul Wayne Gregory and Co-Couture. Chocolate companies Rococo, Valrhona and Hotel Chocolat will be at the festival, along with new companies Choki of Brockley and Simply Hand Made Chocolates.
Demonstrations and talks will offer visitors tutored tastings and recipe ideas for using chocolate in savoury dishes. There will also be a chocolate fashion display with chocolate dresses as well as chocolate icing works by artist Beth Cust.
Stallholders will offer chocolate and hot chocolate drinks, chocolate cakes, crepes with chocolate, churros with chocolate, a chocolate fountain and chocolate-making kits for sale.
The Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest arts centre, occupying a 8.5-hectare (21-acre) site on the south bank of the Thames in London. The site was first developed for the 1951 Festival of Britain. It includes the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery as well as the Saison Poetry Library and the Arts Council Collection.
Chocolate Festival, 10–12 December, 11am–6 pm (8 pm on Friday),and is free. The Southbank will also host an Easter Chocolate Festival on 8–10 April. Other Chocolate Festivals take place in Oxford and Brighton in April.
Demonstrations and talks will offer visitors tutored tastings and recipe ideas for using chocolate in savoury dishes. There will also be a chocolate fashion display with chocolate dresses as well as chocolate icing works by artist Beth Cust.
Stallholders will offer chocolate and hot chocolate drinks, chocolate cakes, crepes with chocolate, churros with chocolate, a chocolate fountain and chocolate-making kits for sale.
The Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest arts centre, occupying a 8.5-hectare (21-acre) site on the south bank of the Thames in London. The site was first developed for the 1951 Festival of Britain. It includes the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery as well as the Saison Poetry Library and the Arts Council Collection.
Chocolate Festival, 10–12 December, 11am–6 pm (8 pm on Friday),and is free. The Southbank will also host an Easter Chocolate Festival on 8–10 April. Other Chocolate Festivals take place in Oxford and Brighton in April.
