FESTIVAL ATTRACTIONS:
Meet your chocolatier! – Over 50 VENDORS include Oregon chocolatiers, bakers, wineries, breweries and other specialty food vendors present their products and tease your palate with fantastic and surprising flavors!
(Saturday & Sunday 11- 3pm at the hotel)
Chocolate Makers Dinner (Friday, 6:30 – 9pm) LARKS Executive Chef Damon Jones returns after two years on the East Coast to create this delightful four-course dinner featuring chocolate in each dish. $62 inclusive. Dinner is accompanied by a short presentations from Chef Instructor Darrell Folck, Chef Damon Jones and Larry Chase, the brewer at the Standing Stone Brewing Co.
Chocolate-themed First Friday Art Walk (Friday, 5 – 8pm). Enjoy diverse forms of art, local wines and chocolates. A great prelude to the weekend long chocolate extravaganza. Stop by hotel lobby to view Chocolate Sculpture and watch chef demonstrations at 5:30pm and 6:00pm
Beer & Chocolate Pairing – Explore the unexpected! Join Ginger Johnson from Women Enjoying Beer for an educational and fun-filled pairing of beers and chocolates. (book in advance, space limited)
Guided tasting of world’s 7 tastiest chocolates– Saturday and Sunday (book in advance, space limited)
Candy-making workshop for kids. Two workshops for kids and families, at the ScienceWorks Museum (Saturday 11:30 & 12:30pm)
Edible Facial – Chocolate Martini Facial Spa Party – Saturday at 4-6pm – at Lithia Springs Resort. Great chocolate festival night out with friends! SOLD OUT
Chocolate treatments at Waterstone Spa & Salon – enjoy blissful massage, mani & pedi, body scrub and other treatments designed to utilize beneficial antioxidants found in chocolate!
Artisan Pastry Baking Class at Deux Chats Bakery – Learn how to make a chocolate dough croissant with pear, cinnamon and chocolate filling! Sunday class is SOLD OUT, but contact the bakery for future baking class schedule.
Chocolate discount at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival – Chocolate & theatre! Call OSF box office, mention ‘chocolate’ and receive 20% discount for the shows on March -3.
Discount at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre – mention ‘chocolate’ and enjoy 20% off! 541-488-2902
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