Dallas Chocolate Festival 2019 VIP Dinner – I LOVED IT A CHOCO-LOT

Trey Chapman Chow, Events
A man in chef 's outfit cutting food on a table.


In 2009 the Dallas Chocolate Festival was born.

Last Saturday evening August 17, at 7:00 pm we attended the 10th-Anniversary Dinner for the Dallas Chocolate Festival at the wonderful FAIRMOUNT Hotel in Dallas, Texas. It was a fun and vibrant night, surelyA close up of chocolate bars on top of each other one not to be forgotten. We were able to meet two amazing chefs and dine on some fantastic from scratch menu items, all from a five-course dinner menu. All the dishes had a touch of chocolate in them and were extremely creative dishes. At the event, they had various speakers after each course to help explain the ever changing wide world of craft chocolate.

It was an amazing evening.

A man in chef 's outfit cutting food on a table.
Fairmont Chef James Phillips

Here’s a little backstory for you folks about the Dallas Chocolate Festival.

“In 2009, DallasChocolate.org’s founder hosted a chocolate-themed dinner celebrating the bean-to-bar makers who had just started bringing craft chocolate to life in the United States. – See more on DallasChocolate.org. From that night of education and deliciousness, the idea for the Dallas Chocolate Festival was born. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of that fateful dinner, and kick-off our the 2019 Dallas Chocolate Festival season, they hosted an exclusive multi-course chocolate dinner in the beautifully restored Venetian ballroom at the Fairmont Hotel. Executive Chef Jared Harms has crafted a five-course meal featuring chocolate flavors in each course from some of today’s leading craft chocolate brands: Dandelion Chocolate from San Francisco, CA; Amano Chocolate from Provo, Utah; French Broad Chocolate from Asheville, NC; and Dallas’s own 5 Mile Chocolate from Oak Cliff will all have their makers on hand to tell the stories of how this chocolate made it from bean to bar to dish. And of course, Fairmont’s amazing Pastry Chef, Cristal Gonzalez, will cap the meal with an array of chocolate desserts.  – See more on dallaschocolate.org and we will see you at the 2019 Dallas Chocolate Festival.

Please see the 1oth Anniversary Dinner Menu and photos below.

A menu of the restaurant, with different types of food.

A table with bowls of salad and greens.A salad with green vegetables and radishes in it. A person is pouring sauce on some food.

A man in glasses is preparing food on plates. A man in chef 's outfit cutting food on a table. A person cutting cake on a plate with pink frosting. A man in white shirt holding fork and knife.A woman in an apron is cutting food.A man in grey jacket holding bowl of food. A man in grey jacket standing next to plates of food. A man in glasses and a jacket is cutting cake.A table filled with plates of chocolate desserts. A table filled with plates of desert on top of brown ground. A plate of desert with chocolate and other desserts. A plate of chocolate cookies and corn on the cob. A plate of chocolate and other desserts on top of beans. A man standing between two women in an apron. Two men in cowboy hats talking to each other. A man in a cowboy hat and jacket standing next to two women.A woman in black gloves holding a bowl of food.A woman standing at the podium speaking to an audience.A close up of chocolate bars on top of each other A close up of some food on a table

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