Press Release

Donna Wilson has teamed up with Rococo Chocolates to produce this delicious range of hand-painted Easter eggs, available at SCP. Rococo is a maverick in the sometimes stuffy world of luxury chocolate, their three London stores decked out with Botticelli cherubs, pink walls and exquisite products and packaging. Donna’s idiosyncratic designs are hand-painted onto white and dark chocolate eggs, some are stuffed with chocolates, some are even inside bone china eggcups.

via SCP Newsletter. See SCP Easter range here.

The British chocolate company which currently only has shops in London’s exclusive Belgravia, Chelsea and Marylebone, opened its doors as a concession within the luxury hotel on Monday.

The new venture has created four full and part time jobs with manager Annie McNicholl at the helm. It’s a welcome return for Annie who’s worked at The Chester Grosvenor on and off for more than a decade. Annie, 46, from Chester, said:

“It’s nice to be back at The Chester Grosvenor and to be part of this exciting new concession. I can’t wait to introduce Chester to Rococo.”

Chocolate lovers will be able to take part in special chocolate tasting sessions held at the concession after hours and Rococo chocolate will be featuring in gourmet lunches and dinners held in the Michelin-starred restaurant ‘Simon Radley at The Chester Grosvenor’.

The new La Brasserie menu features treats for chocolate lovers with a special Rococo ‘chocolatte’, made with Rococo cocoa and hot milk, and a ‘chocolate shot’ made with 70% dark chocolate cocoa and water to create the chocolate equivalent of an espresso.

The new chocolatier is part of an ambitious project which has seen the much-loved La Brasserie undergo a multi-million pound refurbishment and reconfiguration to allow the concession to open for business at the front of the restaurant on Eastgate.

via Press Room at The Chester Grosvenor and Spa, press releases, latest news.

British chocolate company, Rococo which currently only has shops in London’s exclusive Belgravia, Chelsea and Marylebone, has opened as a concession within the hotel.

The new concession will feature a mini steam train running along a circular track with 15 stations that tells the story of chocolate in a unique attraction suspended from the ceiling.

Chantal Coady, Rococo founder and creative director, said:

“I am really delighted that Rococo Chocolates will finally be opening a branch in the North of England, especially in such a beautiful location as The Chester Grosvenor.

“We think there is a strong synergy between us and the Grosvenor brand, and it’s high time that the Rococo Couture range of chocolates was available north of Regents Park!”

Chocolate lovers will be able to take part in special chocolate tasting sessions held at the concession after hours and Rococo chocolate will be featuring in gourmet lunches and dinners held in the Michelin-starred restaurant ‘Simon Radley at The Chester Grosvenor’.

The new La Brasserie menu features treats for chocolate lovers with a special Rococo ‘chocolatte’, made with Rococo cocoa and hot milk, and a ‘chocolate shot’ made with 70% dark chocolate cocoa and water to create the chocolate equivalent of an espresso.

Guests checking into the hotel will also be invited to collect a sample of Rococo chocolate from the new concession. Rococo’s signature chocolate will also be available in the minibars in the hotel’s rooms and suites.

via Hotels Chester, Five Star Hotel Chester, Luxury Hotels Chester, Cheshire Hotels, Hotel Cheshire.

Rococo Educational team would like to introduce you to our fun chocolate workshops for children aged 8-11, at the Motcomb St shop where chocolate is brought to life and they can enter the magical world of Rococo Chocolates. This workshop has been designed exclusively for schools.

We touch on key curriculum topics such as geography, maths, nutrition, art, science and history. Each class consists of approximately 12 children, plus one teacher. We go through the chocolate process from bean to bar, how chocolate is grown and farmed, show them cocoa nibs and cocoa butter and discuss the process of harvesting and creating chocolate, as well as the health benefits that good quality chocolate can have. We even make chocolate from scratch, where the children are able to add cocoa butter, nibs and sugar to a machine, and see the process for themselves! We also play ‘Guess the Flavour’ with three/four different artisan bars (depending on how good they are!), followed by the chance to design their own chocolate bar wrapper, with ribbons, glue and other materials. The classes finish with a hot chocolate and a tasting session with the chocolate that they made earlier.

The cost of the classes is £15.00 per child, including raw materials, a goody bag to take home, an organic milk chocolate bar (for their beautiful wrappers!) and the hot chocolate.

via Rococo Educational Chocolate Workshop for schools : Childrens Parties.

 The 2012 collection of hand-painted chocolate hearts from Rococo Chocolates is enough to melt anyone’s heart. There are many different sizes and beautiful designs, painted onto a thin layer of white chocolate and backed with dark, to choose from, and you can even have your sweetheart’s name painted on to make it really personal.

• 8 baby hand-painted hearts in 7cm box – including NEW Bee and Rose designs, retails at £11.95
• Size 1: solid hand-painted heart in 7cm box – in Polka Dot, Heart or NEW Bee Mine and Rose designs, retails at £9.50
• Size 2: hand-painted hollow heart in 10cm box – NEW Tattoo and Lovebirds designs filled with 3 ganaches, retails at £22.50
• Size 3:  hand-painted hollow heart – NEW circus-inspired Love design decorated with mini hearts and NEW ‘Name’ Tattoo heart. This heart will have LOVE written on it as standard, but can also be personalised with the name of your loved one (10 characters max.) Orders for personalised hearts must be placed by 23 January for delivery to shops one week before Valentines’s Day. These hearts are filled with 6 ganaches and retail at £32.00
• Size 4: hand-painted heart with red Cupid design filled with 9 ganaches, retails at £45.00

The ganaches in the Rococo hearts are delicate square truffles based on the award-winning chocolates from Rococo’s “Prof du Choc”, made with Valrhona single origin chocolates. Flavours include rose raspberry & lychee, popping champagne, orange mango & passion fruit and jasmine tea.

Of course if you want to pop THE Question you could always sneak in a Diamond Ring!

via Sweethearts for your Valentine | Gertsen PR.

Rococo’s new website has just been launched, providing customers with a more genuine experience of interacting with the company. The web storefront is modelled after the Motcomb Street shop so it is almost like going there!

Along with a more fun and interactive user experience, customers can now navigate through the site with clear categories representative of Rococo – for example, ‘Our Story’ is able explain to the customer what Rococo is all about, from 1983 to the present day. Rococo is not just three shops and an e-commerce site! They actually care, and that’s shown in the ‘How We Care’ section of ‘Our Story,’ which highlights their partnership with the Grenada Chocolate Company and their very own Grococo farm for ethical cocoa sourcing. Rococo thinks that videos are a great way to communicate to and engage the customer, so there are quite a few – you might enjoy the one on the ‘Our Story’ landing page.

In addition to browsing through the delights in ‘Shop!,’ you may also enjoy taking classes or holding events at the Rococo Chocolate School at Motcomb St. Key areas for the growing business, they get their own section in ‘Chocolate School Events.’ Who doesn’t love being hands-deep in chocolate?

From a technical standpoint, Rococo decided to use Amazon web services for the new e-commerce platform due to its advanced technology, robustness, and reputation for reliability and quality – this should optimise both front and back ends!

We hope you enjoy shopping at the Rococo web shop.

January 2012
www.rococochocolates.com