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Chocolate Week Alert

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 05:25pm on 09/10/2007 under , ,
In southern England? Like chocolate? Next week is Chocolate Week, an annual event featuring loads of chocolate-themed events, free samples, demos, and tours. Most of them are free. Some involve signing up. If you're interested in signing up, do so as soon as possible, as some of the more unusual events are already full. There's all sorts of things this year, from Paul A. Young launching a new chocolate shop right near Bank station to a chocolate-themed tour of the Natural History Museum organized by Rococo.

In honor of the week, Chocolate Ecstasy Tours will be doing another all day chocolate tour of London. I went on it last year with [livejournal.com profile] haggisthesecond and enjoyed it a great deal.

Most - but by no means all - of the events are in London. Most of the others are west of London, from chocolate-themed restaurant menus to samples at the Dorset Food Fair. Chococo is doing another mail-order Chocolate Week-themed box, and Sir Hans Sloane Chocolate & Champagne and L'Artisan du Chocolat are doing factory tours.
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posted by [identity profile] taldragon.livejournal.com at 04:28pm on 09/10/2007
i wanna! but i'm at work! *cry*
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 04:30pm on 09/10/2007
Even on Saturday?
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posted by [identity profile] taldragon.livejournal.com at 04:32pm on 09/10/2007
doh, dates...not my friends.

Saturday sounds great - i think both Siggy and i would be interested!
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 05:11pm on 09/10/2007
Apple Day at Melt and William Curley doing demos at John Lewis (among the other free drop-in things). Saturday the 20th would be good for me!
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posted by [identity profile] taldragon.livejournal.com at 05:18pm on 09/10/2007
sounds good to me - you decide, and i shall tag along? :)
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 05:25pm on 09/10/2007
It's more that we should meet for lunch somewhere near Oxford Circus, Notting Hill Gate, or Sloane Square and then I drag you around.
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posted by [identity profile] taldragon.livejournal.com at 05:34pm on 09/10/2007
works for me! i can get to all three, provided the Circle/District lines are working (otherwise i can get to the first two via Bakerloo/Central lines)
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posted by [identity profile] kukla-red.livejournal.com at 04:49pm on 09/10/2007
Whine.
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posted by [identity profile] naxos.livejournal.com at 06:44pm on 09/10/2007
dude! we saw a billboard advertising the Dorset food fair (from 20 Oct I recall) and meant to tell you. But evidently your finger is on the pulse...
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 07:11pm on 09/10/2007
I thought of you when I saw that! It also caught my eye because it's Chococo: of all the many chocolate store wares we sampled last year, Chococo was C.'s favorite - I gave him a 6 month subscription to their chocolate club as a present because of it.
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posted by [identity profile] naxos.livejournal.com at 07:46pm on 09/10/2007
Been a while since we've been to Chococo, actually. I'd be up for a repeat visit if you can talk Isabel into it!
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posted by [identity profile] mithent.livejournal.com at 06:54pm on 09/10/2007
It seems there are events in Borders stores, but it's rather hard to tell when exactly. I guess I'll just have to keep my eye out for that.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 07:09pm on 09/10/2007
Here's the number of the Cambridge store if you want to phone and ask! 0122.330.6188
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posted by [identity profile] edith-jones.livejournal.com at 07:54pm on 09/10/2007
Is this an annual event? Where do I sign on?
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 08:45pm on 10/10/2007
It is an annual event!

You can sign up for their really inadequate mailing list on the sidebar here: http://www.chocolate-week.co.uk/

It's really inadequate since they send maybe 2 emails per year and never at quite the right time. They noted Chocolate Week was forthcoming several weeks back, but I actually clued in to the schedule being available thanks to being on the Chocolate Ecstasy Tours mailing list.
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posted by [identity profile] noncalorsedumor.livejournal.com at 07:32pm on 10/10/2007
Oh, Chocolate Week. How I wish I could be in London for you.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 08:45pm on 10/10/2007
You're so cute. "for me". You are so noble and self-sacrificing in the name of chocolate.
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posted by [identity profile] noncalorsedumor.livejournal.com at 08:48pm on 10/10/2007
For chocolate, I give my all.
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