Choc Fest At The Rocks - Sydney

Guess where I’m heading off this weekend…?

The Festival of Chocolate in The Rocks, Sydney is Australia’s biggest 2 day

Celebration of sweet indulgences on Sat 12 & Sun 13 August 2017:

https://www.smooth.com.au/smooth/festival-of-chocolate/about-the-festival

Located by Sydney Harbour, The Rocks is the oldest part of Sydney Town.

Should be a delectably indulgent and fun weekend...​

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Please take me with!

 

Okay


(Self Reminder: take "Wet Ones" to clean fingers before using camera)

 

Only if you promise not to over dose on chocs...

 

Would this do...?

http://www.therocks.com/media/1151978/espresso-martini-thumbnail.png​

Included at The Rocks Choc Fest:
MR BLACK ESPRESSO MARTINI BAR - Tallawoladah Place
Mr Black is the result of a designer and one of Australia’s most highly awarded distillers coming together to make the best coffee liqueur in the world. Cold-pressed coffee from speciality beans sourced from Kenya, Colombia and Papua New Guinea is blended with pure Australian grain spirit, which allows the rich flavour of the coffee blend to shine through. Each day from 11am you can experience a Mr Black Espresso Martini for yourself or grab a Chocolate Ale brewed exclusively for the festival by Endeavour Beer.

 

Perfect day spent at The Rocks Chocolate Festival under blue skies sponsored by a local radio station which played great music throughout the day. Perfect setting by Sydney Harbour, nearby is the Harbour Bridge and across Circular Quay's water is the Opera House...lovely setting for a most indulgent day of chocolate delights!

Thousands turned up, everyone walking around with silly smiles savouring all the goodies with lots of samples...there was even a free wine tasting area. Managed to get through all eleven areas, checking out, sampling with the odd buys (ahem, gifts of course...yes....mmm).

They even had a couple of sections for savoury and sweet foods from different cultures...we didn't over indulge so we could go right through the Festival.

One regret, we missed out on the Chocolate Martini as they'd gone through all ingredients due to demand. However, at day's end, we visited a lovely old pub across the road and grabbed our martinis there. Here's a sampling of what we saw:


Entering the first of eleven areas of the Festival Mechanical Rhino all chocolate with moving parts


Decorative cakes and chocolate flowers

Left - Wine in light chocolates (yumma yumma) Right - Spirits in dark chocolates

Unicorns and Rainbow chocolates

 

I think I just gained 4 pounds simply looking over your pics. Wow! Yummies.

 

Glad you enjoyed the pics, would have loaded more if allowed.

Seems you’re due back to visit Down Under!

Fun taking the photos. Shame I couldn’t get one of the Chocolate Martini for you.

Reckon the chocolate bars you’re referring to are the ones with wine…the Shiraz and Sauvignon Blanc ones were so delicious I bought these two bars.

Was a fun day, crowd was well controlled so despite numbers, it was easy to move about and access stands while gathering samples which we took in moderation to allow us to sample as many as possible.

One “gift boxes” didn’t survive last night…my excuse was the box was damaged….so…..

Glad you all enjoyed the pics...you would have loved the day...something for everyone.

 

Most everything chocolate is good unless you are wasting good chocolate to coat something discusting like bugs.

 

You mean something like these



Rest assured, no such things were at the Choc Fest...didn't even see any insects around for that matter!

 

Yes. If you want some crunch with your chocolate why not nuts?

There was a discussion in the forums once about people's favorite brand of chocolate. I think there are some serious chocolate lovers here me included.

 

Totally agree...nuts and or fruits and or mueslie...

Favourite chocolates...my old favourite is the original Kit Kat (as a kid to make them last I would eat each stick by nibbling at the chocolate all around before separating each layer then nibbling each layer, piece by piece - my friends would often end up watching me slowly devouring my portions after they had gobbled theirs up whole) Dare I admit I still practice this habit
and
the original Ferror Roche with hazelnut centre https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRsGwS1_En8QRULopBn3qH6V7uP4wFV25KUafkE0OuH5NOF4Gi4xQ
yumma yumma

 

Mine is TEX. Kit Kat meets Aero...

 

Hmmm...don't believe we have that here...looks/sounds good

 

Looks like it's only available in South Africa.