Speciality Chocolate Fair
Spread over three days, the Speciality Chocolate Fair is located within Speciality & Fine Food Fair and takes place from Sunday 7 to Tuesday 9 September at Olympia Grand, London.
Join leading retailers, deli owners, pastry chefs, fine food buyers and passionate chocolatiers. Discover the latest innovations, techniques and cutting edge creativity in the world of chocolate – with both British and international brands exhibiting. On Monday, Flanders Investment & Trade will be hosting a unique “Art of Belgian Chocolate” event in the Pillar Hall, which adjoins Olympia Grand where 14 exclusive Belgian chocolate producers will be showcasing their products for one day only.
Speciality Chocolate Live is set to inspire with many top pastry chefs and chocolatiers demonstrating skills and flavour combinations. Award-winning chef and director of Fine Art of Dining & Abouzaki Holdings, Damian Wawrzyniak, will be hosting the theatre on Monday 8 September. The stage will shine its lights on master chocolatier Marc Demarquette, Tony Esber from Maroush Group, Sara Jayne Stanes OBE from the Academy of Chocolate and executive pastry chef, Martin Chiffers, throughout the three days. Also join Andrew Gravett on Sunday for ‘Valrhona Tarts’, Fiona Sciolti for ‘Botanical Chocolates – capturing the best of what nature provides’ on Monday and visit the theatre on Tuesday for a panel debate on ‘sourcing cocoa’. Famed for his exquisite chocolates and ingenious flavour combinations, Paul A Young is one of the UK’s foremost chocolatiers and patissiers, bringing flamboyance to the British chocolate scene. He will be demonstrating on Sunday with his talk ‘From tempering to filling’.
Soraya Gadelrab, event director, comments: “It is less than three weeks to go to our biggest fair yet! We have increased stand space to accommodate the 700 exhibitors – more than ever before. Speciality Chocolate Fair is a vibrant part of the fair – the imagination and diversity of flavours, formats and textures in the burgeoning artisan chocolate world, is astounding. Each year we are overwhelmed with the number of new creations and cannot wait to see what 2014 has in store! We are extremely lucky to have some of the UK’s leadings chefs and chocolatiers demonstrating at Olympia and engaging in the liveliness of the speciality food sector.”
Register now at www.specialityandfinefoodfairs.co.uk