Salon du Chocolat - Paris

 

Well, the Salon du Chocolat was fun 🍫

Of course I didn’t resist any chocolate 🍫 offerings until at least an hour in.

My food buddy, Solli, shooting the ever-present towers of power. Solli refused nothing by the way, but summed up that we definitely ate less 🍫 then usual 🤔

Photo by SALON DU CHOCOLAT

We skipped the annual chocolate dress 👗 parade

And made the rounds sampling

While the crowd clapped 👏 & cheered 🎉 

We ‘covered the waterfront’ with little competition 🤸‍♂️

These beautiful hunks of pâté de fruit are the size of a handbag 👜 Somehow they taste better than the actual fruits! 🍓 

The Saudis were the featured guest this year, with a big stand at the left entrance offering the most divine dates dipped in various chocolates (milk or dark) with various toppings (sesame and almonds was recommended).

 Plus a chocolate camel 🐪 

This gentleman was offering tastes of his health-promoting pomegranate syrups, vinegars, elixirs, all organic. 

It’s not just chocolate 🍫 at the salon. 

We loved the non-alcoholic, sugar-free drinks that are popular this year at all the food shows. How do they dream up these flavors? ‘French Cancan’ a combo of raspberry, violet and geranium. ‘French Kiss’ verjus, basil and sweet mint.

Any product with a color wheel wins 🏅 my heart ❤️ 

Plus the wheel of hazelnuts/noisette will do as well. Piedmontese are at the salon again with their super hazelnuts. I bought a bag last year and the price is the same. 

We tasted apéro hazelnuts to be eaten with sparkling drinks like Champagne 🥂 

Plenty of pumpkins 🎃 at the Salon. The French adore Halloween.

A sneak-peek exhibit of Xmas buche de Noël 🎅 It’s never too soon to be thinking about Christmas dinner dessert.

I loved ❤️ the witty fireplace with buche logs 🪵 A stocking 🧦 appears to be missing…someone snacked? Or are they going for an asymmetrical look 🤔

Always marshmallow/guimauve-filled bears 🐻 at the salon.

This year some more authentic looking bears 🐻 

Hand-carved from Japan. Is it chocolate ? Looks like chocolate 🍫 

The Chocolate Salon continues through Sunday 3 November at Porte de Versailles (in Paris). I will go back to see the first floor, like I did last year.