Salon du Chocolat, Oct 28 - Nov 1, 2023

 

At Friday night’s opening of the 2023 Salon du Chocolat I made a bee-line for Maison Pralus.

There are always ready snacks of their famous cake, Le Praluline. An incredible brioche made with pink praliné chips (sugared almonds). It is a classic Lyonnaise dessert  first made by August Pralus in 1955. 

Everyone else was madly crowded around the stage, attempting to watch the annual chocolate fashion show… FYI they rerun the show everyday while the Salon is on, so you can catch it 👍

Meanwhile the clever ones were casing out the show. 

More than 500 chefs, artisan chocolatiers & producers from 20 different countries are present! Daina said these chocolates look like marbles. They’re filled with flavored ganache like caramel passion fruit, Litchi, Tahitian vanilla, Mexican lime from Maison Bertrand of Lyon.

Patrick Roger first created chocolate demi-spheres or domes and the rest of the world followed. Roger was not at the salon 😢 

I was drawn to the brilliant colors used by French chocolatiers.

Beautiful cabosses de fèves de cocoa - cocoa bean pods in the early stages before they turn brown.

One stand had this amusing purse shaped like a cocoa bean. If the price had been less I would have succumbed. 

Dengo from Brazil went full-out bold colors. You entered a separate room completely wall-papered with their chocolate bar wrapping. Getting a sample drink of cocoa milk - surprisingly delicious. They also had it with alcohol. 

Their bars were très tropicalia 🌴 themed. 

Beautiful colored popsicles from Chartier - but no samples 😢 

I feel like this little girl 🤔

How to choose what to buy? 

Mostly I abstained. 

I had eaten a good dinner before coming. 

But right now, doing this post, I could run 🏃‍♂️ to Porte de Versailles (ligne 12 - they open at 10:00 am - 7:00) 

And vacuum up the place. 

I just vacuumed up this little gift box of chocolate ganache from MOF Vincent Guerlais meant for my proprietor…

Who vacuumed out my heater (the rug will be replaced on Tuesday). 

I was thinking of getting him these chocolate tools…

I guess I have to go back to the Salon.

 Here is the right way to make tartiner, from Alsatian Jacques Bockel. Not that horrible industrial supermarket stuff everyone gobbles up.

Pateatartiner makes a set of daily servings of tartiner ☺️

There are always animals 🐿️ at the salon. 

Ourson guimauve 🐻 are always a temptation. I could go back and get that bear 🤔

This year, a first, Peru has lamas 

And knitted hats & scarves 🧣 But no socks 🧦 

The vanilla from Madagascar from Épices & Vanille de Granville.

Looked enticing 

A special display of bûche de Noel gateaux had a beautiful, edible bunch of vanille Christmas cake. One can only dream what it tasted like…I could go on and on. 

Do you want more Salon du Chocolat?

Please share with a friend. Please Visit my Etsy shop to keep me in Paris, eating chocolates 🍫 for you👍

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