Le Chocolat 🍫 Alain Ducasse

 

Yesterday was Christmas 🎄 chocolate 🍫 tasting Time 🤸‍♂️

At ALAIN DUCASSE LE CHOCOLAT Hurrah 👏

You might not be thinking about Christmas 🎅 just yet…

But Parisian chocolatiers are presenting their 🎄 collections in September just like Paris Couture.

One of the hardships of blogging in Paris is you must indulge 

in Holiday 🎄 treats before the rest of humanity. 

*Bears 🐻 by the way will always be IN for any holiday in France  

The invitation said begins at 14:30/2:30 

I thought I arrived on the dot at the Le Chocolat Labo

But plenty of 🍫 tasters got there ahead of me.

We were lucky to sit down for the first tasting.

A tray of 10 perfect chocolates 🍫 

Naturally I got out my little ‘kiwi’ knife

Le Chocolat’s head chocolatier, Quentin Francis-Gaigneux explained all the different flavors. I was busy sketching ✍️ 

 I noticed my neighbor ‘saving’ hers in her purse 👜 She said she had a ‘cardiac situation’ and ‘pleine de crème’/full of cream. I followed her example.

Later I saw her, the first one, to get ice cream 🍨 from the chariot and others lining up after her 😂

The edible chocolate box is so clever. Ducasse’s designs are always unique and witty. 

Le Chocolat’s Advent calendar 

Is full of whimsical animals 🐻‍❄️

Their cocoa pod shaped-chocolates are directly inspired 

By the chocolate cabosse/pod.

They let me step into where they were roasting the beans.

The beans Le Chocolat are chosen from a variety of places;

Smoky Indonesian Java, Trinidad, Madagascar, Peruvian Porcelana, Venezuelan Chuao, Vietnam. All la crème de la creme of beans 🫘

I was very happy to have LE CHOCOLAT excellent chocolates for breakfast this morning. Time to dream of Christmas chocolates