Chocolate Fiesta at Craft'd Grounds

Overview

When November hits, Brisbane starts celebrating one of everyone's favourite 'ch' words, with festive cheer filling the city seemingly everywhere it can. Craft'd Grounds has a different idea, however. The Albion precinct is swapping seasonal merriment for that other adored term that starts with the same two letters: chocolate.

From Friday, November 25–Sunday, November 27, if there's a way to work chocolate into something, this Chocolate Fiesta will manage it — which, if you're a chocoholic, makes for a supremely appetising prospect. Chocolate pastries, chocolate rum tastings, food trucks slinging chocolate treats, a screening of Chocolat: they're all on the menu at this first-ever choc fest at the venue.

Arrive hungry from 5pm on the Friday, with everything on offer via a heap of meals-on-wheels purveyors all sporting a chocolate twist. Milton Rum Distillery will also be pouring tastings of its limited-edition chocolate tipple, which'll give your after-work drinks a decadent spin.

On Saturday, the focus is on family-friendly dishes; think: chocolate milkshakes and chocolate croissants, plus a treasure hunt for kids. But Doughcraft is doing two chocolate specials from 7am daily all weekend: a choc honeycomb shoux filled with honeycomb ganache and topped with dark chocolate crémeux, plus a brownie tart made with with toasted hazelnuts, fresh raspberries and vanilla diplomat crème.

And, on Sunday, as well as the aforementioned French film screening, there's a five-course festive lunch at French restaurant Herve's. Or, from 1pm, hit up The Black for live tunes and chocolate cocktails.