Well dear reader, as you know I was recently sent to the Etruscan Chocohotel for a night as part of a business trip. It will come as no surprise to learn that I spent rather a long time (and a fistful of Euros) in their Chocostore - possibly the toughest shopping trip I have made [...]

Simon Michalak reviews something a little out of the ordinary for Chocablog - a hotel!

Early in April I found myself starting a two week stint of work in Italy, and purely by chance we were booked into this hotel for our first night’s stay.
“What a lovely coincidence” I thought. Business and pleasure and business.
So what [...]

The new UK Snickers ad made me laugh. A bit:

You have to wonder who came up with the bright idea of using Mr T. And what they were on at the time…

Photo by redphayze

It breaks my heart to include a word like ‘mediocre’ when writing about chocolate, but M&Ms deserve a rap on their Australian-subsidiary knuckles.

Last year sometime, M&Ms Australia went to considerable trouble and expense to fly over Pamela Anderson to ‘launch’ the new green M&Ms. What Pammy actually means to Australians who like [...]

When I was a kid, Bournville was my first and pretty much only exposure to ‘dark’ chocolate. A small bar of Bournville was a real treat for me.

These days, with all the wonderful dark chocolate on the market, my tastes have changed. Whether Bourneville has changed too I don’t know, but it just doesn’t appeal [...]