The Top 5 Reasons Chocolate Lovers Love San Diego
If you can’t imagine a life worth living without chocolate, here are five more reasons to LOVE San Diego.
- This Friday from 3 to 6 p.m., UCSD’s Sixth College will hold their fourth annual Chocolate Festival, this year themed “Charlie and the Chocolate Festival.” This event will feature industrial chocolate fountains, games, arts and crafts and music, and you don’t have to attend college to come to this festival. Family and friends are welcome too.
- If you’d rather have your chocolate in a garden, another very popular Chocolate Festival is being held this weekend at Quail Botanical Gardens in Encinitas. On Sunday, Mother’s Day, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.:
Enjoy dozens of delectable chocolate tastings, cooking demonstrations, a chocolate fountain, and more. This family-friendly event also features entertainment, food, children’s activities, plant sales, and a variety of Mother’s Day gifts.
- About the time that you
recover from those events, you can attend the 2nd Annual Vista Chocolate Festival & Street Fair on Sunday, May 27th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Highlights of this event: * FREE admission *
* Chocolate Ally *
* Live music *
* Two food courts *
* Kids Zone with rides *
* Laser Tag *
* Children’s 10Mobile *
* Red Cross Bloodmobile *
* Castle Building Block area * -
If you can’t sit around just waiting for a chocolate event to hit your calendar, plan your own. Head to Chi Chocolat in the Gaslamp for your own Chocolate Tasting party. Cost per person starts at $26.95, and includes presentation by chocolatier with 7 tasting disks, flight of chocolates (5 pcs), chocolate samples and beverages. If you need some chocolate tasting advice, Chi Choloat provides this tasting tip for your enjoyment:
Place the chocolate in your mouth and wait for a few seconds to release the primary flavor notes; chew five to ten times to discover the secondary flavors; push the chocolate gently against the roof of your mouth and note the flavor, the texture and the way the chocolate lingers on the tongue.
- If you’re a frequent reader of The San Diego Beat, you
know that I’m going to find a way to combine my chocolate with ice cream. Ghirardelli Soda Fountain & Chocolate Shop (also in the San Diego Gaslamp) makes it easy, and who knows chocolate better than the world-famous Ghirardelli? What will you find there? Chocolate ice cream, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate squares, chocolate bars, cocoas and drinking chocolates, just to name a few. Need I go on?
If these 5 top ways to enjoy your chocolate in San Diego aren’t quite enough for you, why not join a Chocolate Meetup group? They actually plan outings based on their love of chocolate! What could be better?! (I can only think of one thing, but they haven’t formed an ice cream meetup group yet.)
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Is there anything in San Diego that has a clothing optional policy?
Chocolate Chocolate chocolate, I love chocolate. Is there anywhere in San Diego where I can buy chocolate?
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Answering Keith White’s comment about clothing optional San Diego (a little off-topic, Keith – chocolates, nudism – okay, I can see how that works.) Yes, San Diego’s Black’s Beach is clothing optional. Although not officially sanctioned, it’s difficult to get to, so it offers some seclusion. It has been a nude beach for as long as I can remember. See http://www.sandiego.gov/lifeguards/beaches/blacks.shtml for more info.
Answering Keith White’s second comment (much more on-topic this time – Good Job!),
no. There’s no more chocolate in San Diego. I’m pretty sure I got to it all this week.
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Don’t forget the classes Chuao offers in north county http://www.nearhere.com/dates/date_info.cfm?lid=1370
OMG! Thanks, Dave! I didn’t know about Chuao in Carlsbad. It definitely should be added to all chocolate lovers’ list. To anyone else interested, here’s info. on their chocolate classes: http://www.chuaochocolatier.com/courses.html.
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Great place and great stuff.Well Gourmet Chocolate at http://www.gourmet-chocolates.org
adds to chocolates online.
Thanks, John!
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