How wonderful to visit a chocolate factory on Easter Monday!?! Amazing! My cousin, who grew up in Zambia as well and now lives here and I haven't seen in years, took us to the Swan Valley for the day. What a lovely place, full of wineries ( and thus wine tours and sampling), breweries, chocolate, cheese, you name it!
We stopped by the chocolate factory first, good start! It was packed but we still found a table outside to have a coffee and peruse the menu checking out all the delights - fondue, cakes, fancy/decadent drinks. We saved ourselves for lunch later on but I will go back to try something from there, I have to!
What we did do was sample the free chocolate drops that they have in massive bowls in white, milk and dark. You can walk past them as many times as you like helping yourself to spoonfulls of it, what a great thing. There was everything you could imagine in there, all kinds of moulded figures, different fillings, a fridge full of truffles, the list goes on. There was a window that you could look through and watch them working too, with a sneaky little shute out of which slid chunks of whatever they were making at the time!
The original location is in Margaret River. We are going to be there next week actually, on a mini road trip, so I am hoping that we will maybe happen upon it as it is quite possibly even more superior to the Swan Valley outlet. As I write this I am thinking about the dark mint crisp bar of chocolate sitting in the fridge that came home with us from there, I think this entry will be cut short as a result!....
The website is chocolatefactory.com.au - go and have a look for yourself and see how great this place is!
Do you know that the Margaret River Chocolate Company has dominated the Perth Royal Show’s chocolate competition and performed well at the Royal Melbourne Show, winning nine gold medals, plus several silver and bronze? It was definitely an event worth celebrating!
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