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A fun mini-Chocolate Salon will feature a master chocolatier who will demonstrate chocolate making recipes, techniques, and will provide sample tastings at the Williams-Sonoma flagship store's demonstration kitchen in lovely Union Square, San Francisco.

Chocolatiers for this event include:

Mary Loomas of Saratoga Chocolate (see a video of Mary on http://TasteTV.com

Saratoga chocolates has been selected by Scharffen Berger to provide custom handmade chocolates to their Ferry Building store. The selection process was run by Joseph Schmidt.

In the process of working with Scharffen Berger and Joseph Schmidt, Saratoga Chocolates will be opening this week in the original Joseph Schmidt store on 16th st.

This will be her first SF chocolate meetup appearance before the big opening.

Like chocolate? Watch Chocolate Television, at www.ChocolateTelevision.com

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A fun mini-Chocolate Salon will feature two chocolatiers who will demonstrate chocolate making recipes, techniques, and will provide sample tastings at the Williams-Sonoma flagship store's demonstration kitchen in lovely Union Square, San Francisco.

Chocolatiers for this event include:

The Tea Room Chocolate
Socola Chocolate

Like chocolate? Watch Chocolate Television, at www.ChocolateTelevision.com

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this cafe has a lovely chocolate fondue with lots of fun food to dip. it's only $20 and feeds 2-4 people (unless you're greedy :) they also have happy hour drink specials during this time. This is another meetup that will be a venue to discuss and share your thoughts about chocolate with other members of the group while eating some tasty chocolate. win win!

This is not an official Chocolate Meetup, but our friend Bryan Kane of Sol Rouge Winery and the Winery Collective shop near the Cannery is having this Chocolate and Wine event on June 2nd with Brix Chocolate, so we thought we'd share it with you:

founder of Brix Chocolate, Dr. Nick Proia, will be present at the event to discuss how a simple "doctorly" observation on the health benefits of red wine and dark chocolate turned into a search for the perfect wine pairing chocolate. We will be pairing six different boutique wines with the three different specifically chosen chocolates: milk, medium dark, and extra dark chocolate.

We couldn't think of a better place to host this happy hour event than the Winery Collective - the first multi-winery tasting room in San Francisco that focuses on boutique wineries. If we went through the trouble of finding the best chocolate, we knew we needed to find the best wines to pair. Winery Collective provides a unique experience allowing you to taste wines from dozens of small wineries across California right in the heart of San Francisco.

DETAILS:
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Media & Trade

5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Open to all Wine and Chocolate Lovers

Tasting Price: $20 ($15 if you RSVP)
Includes six wine pairings and 10% off purchases

WINERY COLLECTIVE
485 Jefferson Street (at Hyde Street)
San Francisco, California 94109
415-929-WINE (9463)
http://www.winerycollective.com

This Meetup was suggested by Amy M.

Per Amy:

This looks good: TCHO Chocolate Tasting Saturday, April 11th, 11AM - 2PM You may have heard about TCHO. It is the only chocolate making company left in San Francisco. Founded by one of the executives from Wired Magazine and other techies, TCHO takes a novel approach to "grading" the chocolates. Rather than grading on origin or cocoa content, the focus is on pulling out specific natural flavors inherent in the beans; there is no citrus added to the "Citrus," fruit added to the "Fruity" or nuts in the "Nutty." (Full disclosure -- there IS chocolate in the "Chocolatey.")

Come meet some of the incredible people that work there, and see which is your favorite at a very special (Free!) tasting.

Have Fun Cooking, Stuart and the Toque Blanche Staff
604 Main Street Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 (650) 726-2898 info@mytoque.com