Toronto International Luxury Chocolate Show at Roy Thompson Hall

So, another food adventure for me. I've always wanted to try the chocolate show, and this year, I was able to finally attend it. Honestly, I was so hyped up about it that when I got there, I have to say, I was a tad bit disappointed. There were lots of vendors, but not a lot of samples. My friend and I both bought 12 sampling tickets. It was 1 ticket for wine tasting, and 2 tickets for the food sampling. Majority of the food places didn't accept tickets, and only accepted cash, which made it pretty useless for us to even have the sampling tickets.

For wine, they were trying to show you what types of wines would be good with dark chocolate. There were some wines that stood out more than others, for sure. They were all red wines from all over the country. I personally liked the one that came from California. I forgot the name of the wine (which makes this completely useless), but I liked it due to the fruity flavor from it. It wasn't as pungent as the usual red wines, and it definitely complimented the dark chocolate I had with it.

Moving on, we went to sample the cocoa and cumin scented pulled pork taco. Homemade tortillas made from corn instead of flour, and pulled pork. I have to say, I didn't find it very amazing. I didn't even taste the cocoa! Tasted just like a regular taco to me.

The other thing we lined up for was Crepe a Gogo. All the employees spoke French to one another. It seemed the owner, Chef Veronica, was also there. She was the one making the crepes. My friend and I ordered a Chomo to share. It's basically a crepe with mozzarella and chocolate. I actually enjoyed this one, as it was a different and had a unique taste. The cheesy mozzarella complimented the sweet chocolate well. It was a great sweet and salty treat.

We then continued to line up for La Rocca chocolate cakes. They had Mocha, Chocolate, Milky Way, Banana and Black Forest. We got the Milky Way and the Mocha. The Milky Way was rather plain. It tasted like any normal chocolate mousse style cake. Not too decadent, but light and airy with a nice moist chocolate cake.The Mocha, on the other hand, was different, but very decadent and rich. It didn't have a strong mocha flavor to it, but the meringue, nuts and mousse complimented each other very well. If only it wasn't so rich, otherwise, I could have gone for another slice.

I was very amazed by the chocolate sculpture. There were an army of chocolate Terracottas. It was so cute. Some were even broken, or half missing something, which actually does resemble the real Terracottas in Xian, China.

There were also other chocolate vendors that had some sculptures. There were chocolate shoes, chocolate turkey, chocolate snowflakes, and chocolate house.

Overall, I thought there would be more to the chocolate show then what I found out. I think going once might be enough. I might go again next year, to see the sculptures, but I wish they had more than one amazing sculpture, and more tasting of different chocolate. I wouldn't mind going for some samples of chocolate from places all over the world, but I'm probably thinking way too ahead of myself.

Until next time, chocolate world!

-Jfu