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If you like chocolate, you should get your butt down to the Chocolate Show. The 2009 Chocolate Show opened yesterday with exhibitors from around the world, including several local purveyors. While at the show, you can try all sorts of things derived from the cacao bean and some that aren't like dessert wines and rum from Puerto Rico. Bring your cash too, because you can actually buy chocolate at the show as well.
The Chocolate Show is at the Metropolitan Pavilion (125 West 18th Street in Manhattan) through Sunday. Today's show runs through 8pm (plenty of time to get to your Halloween party after stuffing yourself with Chocolate) and is open Sunday from 10am-5pm. Tickets are $28 through Ticketmaster and $30 at the door and kids under 12 are free. There's also a KidZone with fun Halloween-themed activities, theaters with cooking demos and book signings.
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I was just there - it's less than half the size it was last year! Half the best vendors didn't show up at all! Hella weak.
I thought this was a good Chocolate Show because it was 1/4 smaller and less frenetic. The show was 1/4 smaller--I compared my guide to 2 years ago. (Last year it wasn't at Metropolitan.) The show didn't rent the building next door this year, but it's a lot smaller than Metropolitan Pavilion anyway, and all of the Pavilion was still used. In '07, they put the big corporate, non-boutique guys next door: Nestle and Hershey's, and a "cafe" that was a waste of space. No big corps this year, and they were an unwelcome (by me) addition anyway. The show is supposed to be about boutique operations.
But, there were about 4 exhibitors I missed and wish had been there regardless, including Knipschildt from South Norwalk, CT. The show was pretty much totally American this year, too--I think only 1 French exhibitor, and the famous Japanese chocolatier who's usually there was absent. But, the same show happens in Paris and Tokyo now, too, so why would European or Asia exhibitors come to the US in this economy when they can go to Paris or Tokyo? But there were first-timers there, too, like "2 Chicks Chocolate."