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To celebrate our 30 years we are offering a 30% discount on Chantal’s new book.
Public opening
Monday 11th & Tuesday 12th March from 12 to 5pm
Come to the new location in Marylebone “Foodie Central” on MOXON Street – just off Marylebone High St, close to the Farmer’s Market.
Nearest Tubes, Regents Park, Oxford Circus, Baker St.
Entertaining is an art and a personal expression of our traditions, tastes and values. What is placed on the table at home is none other than, the accumulation of every home entertainer’s set of trusted resources [shops, people, things) around the city which enables his or her vision to become a reality. In fact, one can learn a great deal about the landscape of city based on examining where people go to purchase the food, the beverages and the accessories they use when entertaining guests. Charlotte Franklin, blogger and photographer behind Lovely Food and Anknel and Burblets. reveals her go-to list of entertaining resources in and around London.
BAKEWARE
Divertimenti 33/34 Marylebone High Street London, W1U 4PT Full-service Divertimenti offers bakers with equipment for any sweet tooth craving from nan tins and moulds to cake decorating tools and baking mats.
CHOCOLATE
Rococo Chocolates on 45 Marylebone High has been around for thirty years. Created by Chantal Coady, her stores make beautifully hand crafted chocolate and she also runs a chocolate school.
Paul A Young’s Soho Store
Chocolate: Ask a European, and It’s confectionery made with the finest cocoa and butter and sold in chic chocolate boutiques. Ask a Brit, and it’s a bar of Dairy Milk or Galaxy from the corner shop. While many tourists come to the UK eager to take back some souvenir Cadbury’s, they don’t view it as chocolate in the strictest sense – too much vegetable oil and milk and not enough of the hard stuff. But there is now a growing breed of London chocolatiers who are putting the capital on the map as a destination de choc choix.
“You don’t have to go abroad to try great chocolate’
says Yael Rose, founder of the Chocolate Festival, which takes place every Easter and Christmas on London’s South Bank.
“We’re developing our own unique style and the great thing about chocolate makers here is that they are always trying to be on the edge of something new’
A quick look in the chocolate shop at upmarket department store Liberty gives the first clue to the changing face of UK chocolatiers. While Charbonnel & Walker, purveyors of the Queen’s beloved rose creams (and the violet creams to which the Queen Mother was partial) still take a central position, newer brands like Rococo, Cocomaya and Montezuma‘s all hold their own too. The packaging looks fresh and different – less twee ribbon, more attention to modern design and gorgeous patterns. But as Jennifer Earle, founder of Chocolate Ecstasy Tours, explains, the reason that UK chocolatiers stand out isn’t purely down to clever design and marketing.
via Optima Magazine July 2012.
The Marylebone High Street shop exterior is almost identical to the King’s Road, but the interior has a different feel. When the shop was stripped out, many 1930’s features were uncovered such as a beautiful high ceiling with original mouldings, skirting boards, parquet floor and brass door fittings.
Architect Mark Prizeman designed the Mayan Temple Counter and all the other display counters, as well as the whole interior layout. Mark project managed the fitting of the daughter shop with Ian Sands and ABA Builders, who are real perfectionists.
Specialist paint finishes by Annette O’Sullivan and the fabulous blown glass Rococo Jellyfish Chandelier was a one-off by Nicholas Turvey for the new shop.
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I’d tried Rococo chocolate once before. A friend sent me some as a gift from the flagship store in London and I’ve been praying for Rococo to open a shop in the North of England ever since! I got my wish in March 2012 when the first store outside London was opened as a concession in the sumptuous surroundings of the Chester Grosvenor Hotel (The North West’s only five star hotel). This is where my chocolate tasting session took place with expert chocolatiers Rachael Pitchard and Lizzy Batchelor.
The blindfold was a good idea – my eyes are often bigger than my belly. At first I felt a bit self conscious wearing a blindfold in a glass-fronted shop but Rachael and Lizzy explained why it was a good idea…
read more at Rococo chocolate tasting in Chester | Visit England’s Fan in a Van.
Rococo Chocolates in the Mayfair district in London, England. The smell is heavenly, the truffles divine and they teach classes on how to…
The text ends there but you can find out more about what classes are available on our Rococo School events page.
via Rococo Chocolates in the Mayfair district in London, England. .
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An architectural and interiors photography assignment for Mark Prizeman Architect and Rococo Chocolates to document their new shop in Chester.
Quintin Lake is an award-winning Architectural & Travel Photographer from Oxford. Former architect, author of Drawing Parallels & aiming to visit all the world’s countries by 2025
via Photos: Rococo Chocolates Shop, Chester « Quintin Lake Photography Blog.
A chocolate bomb, complimentary truffles and a three-wheeler tuk-tuk style chocolate delivery van marked the grand opening of the UK’s leading artisan chocolatier Rococo Chocolates in Chester on Monday.
The British chocolate company whose other shops are in London’s exclusive Belgravia, Chelsea and Marylebone, drew a crowd when the concession in The Chester Grosvenor opened its doors for the first time.
A 50-strong crowd patiently waited for the new shop to open and sampled hot chocolate and signature handmade chocolates.
The new concession features 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, joined manager Annie McNicholl and her team in serving scores of customers.
Chantal said:
“I think it’s fair to say that Chester loves Rococo chocolate based on the crowds in the shop over the last 48 hours. It’s been non-stop and it’s a wonderful start for our new business.
“People have been coming in to say how beautiful they think the shop is and wishing us luck. The train has been a big hit with the children who come in to the shop too.
“We couldn’t have wished for a warmer welcome from the people of Chester.”
via Chester chocoholics find a new favourite haunt – Taste Cheshire.
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