The Festival of Chocolate

Overview

From October 4-5 at The Rocks, you will feel like a kid in a candy store. The two-day Festival of Chocolate will see The Rocks transformed into a sea of market stalls, as dessert chefs from all over the country try to win you over with an array of chocolate-inspired concoctions in every mouth-watering form possible. Bar, pastries, ice-cream, crepes, cakes — we're just scratching the surface of the goodies on offer.

2014 is the debut of this festival, featuring as part of Good Food Month. Though some of what we might think of as the big guns of Australian dessert are staying home for this one, Rocks residents Ananas Brasserie, Baroque Patisserie, Bar 100 and La Renaissance will be spruiking their tasty, melty wares, alongside wider NSW choco-talent Sweetness the Patisserie, Chocolarts, Le Pain Quotidien, Adora Handmade Chocolates and Danieli's Fine Foods. Watch the people who have dedicated their life's work to making chocolate — heroes, really — demonstrate on the Chocolate HQ stage.

There's also a live music stage, but since this is a Smooth FM-presented event, we wouldn't so much recommend it. Instead, gravitate to the pop-up bar with dessert cocktails, including a chocolate martini and chocolate beer. In celebration of The Rocks transformation into a chocolate haven, restaurants around the Rocks will be showcasing their dessert talents with special menus for the entire month of October.

The Smooth FM Festival of Chocolate is on from 10am – 5pm each day.