Fall Luxury Chocolate Salon in pictures (2013)

Tea Time Adventures is happy to volunteer and help you with your foodie event! It's how we got involved with the Chocolate Salon! Now we know all the major players and chat them up whenever we get the chance. If you're interested in volunteering for a foodie event, (Tea Time also helps with the San Francisco Street Food Festival, Oakland Eat Real, the MOWSF Gala and we're looking for more!) just go to the website of the company hosting the event and click the volunteers link. You'll meet a bunch of fun people and get to see behind the scenes of a major event. Plus you (usually) get to attend the event for free (sometimes with restrictions). It's totally worth it!

Art Pollard (Amano Chocolate) and Chuck Siegel (Charles Chocolate)

There was a full roster of presentations.

Art Pollard's talks are always popular.

Angela loves the Teriyaki!

Tea Lovers chocolates

Art perusing Chuck's wares.

Plumeria flour

Their popcorn is always popular!!

Aaron Pollard minding the store while Art gives his talk.

Stephanie of Tea Lovers Gift Baskets

Angela and Adele of Tipsy Tea

Nothing like absinthe to bring out the essence of chocolate.

Socola Chocolates Grand Opening

Tea Time makes a serious effort to attend every event we're invited to, but Socola's Grand Opening party for their brick and mortar shop (535 Folsom Street, between 1st and 2nd Street, San Francisco. 7a.m.–6p.m. M-F; 9a.m.–3p.m. SA) was definitely a don't-miss event. Except Angela unfortunately had to miss it, because she was scheduled to work at the Day Job, so I had to go alone. It was a gray, rainy day, but that didn't keep the chocolate industry crowd away. I wasn't really alone, as there were many familiar faces from other chocolate events (Chocolate Salon, Fog City News Chocolate Meetup, Parties, the Fancy Food Show, to name a few).

Serious Food In Close-Up
Fruit, Several Cheeses and Jalapeno Salame, with an assortment of bread and crackers

There was a generous selection of snacks to prevent sugar intoxication from the unlimited offering of truffles. Notice the display of boxed truffles and Four-Barrel Coffee ready to go home with you, topped by Socola's famous mascot.

Burnt Caramel with Sea Salt Truffles

Fresh Mint Chocolate Truffles

PB&J Truffles

Coffee Truffles

And a selection of specialty pastries from the private label Patisserie Philippe was not to be missed/

Mango Croissants

Cookies and Macarons

Chocolate Marshmallows!

Beverage Menu

There were wine pairings for all the truffles, but there were too many guests crowded around the display to photograph them all.

If you're downtown and want to take a chocolate break, head over to the new Socola store on Folsom street. You might get to meet a flying Alpaca and you'll for sure get some great chocolate confections and treats.

Tea Time Update-

Tantalized by the savory treats in our post? Happy news for you... Socola is now serving sandwiches! Can afternoon tea be far behind? (Fingers crossed)