So what do you get when you throw 10+ bloggers in a room with a master chocolatier at Hotel Chocolat? A chocolate coma. Thanks to the wonderful Lela of LelaLondon some of the loveliest Leeds bloggers could accomplish this mean fete of ”scoffing” on copious amounts of chocolate, followed by a scrumptious dinner upstairs at the very edgy Roast + Conch.
Our fantastic chocolate expert & resident Chocolatier of Hotel Chocolat was Dan who was thoroughly passionate about the life of a cocoa bean & how it is grown and then created in to something pretty, freaking special (I had to resist writing chocolate here, did I mention chocolate?) After trying their classic milk chocolate which just melted and oozed plenty of goodness (& the badness!) we were treated to some of the more ”complex” chocolates that they create. Despite referring to one as ”tasting like a rabbit hutch” (which I can assure you, I most definitely have not tasted!) was in fact because I was picking up the notes of ”hay” and a more ”earthy” taste. Despite it’s rather bizarre taste, I was quite enamoured with it. Accompanied with Prosecco your palette can most certainly sway in strange directions. My most favourite chocolate of the night had to be the milk chocolate praline, yummy!
After we had been seriously spoilt with all the chocolate tasting we were then taken up to the fantastic Roast + Conch. Now I have heard plenty a good things about this place so I have been desperate to try the delights that it has on offer. I opted for the roasted vegetable soup that was finished off with crumbled up cocoa beans which intensified the creaminess of the dish. I was seriously starting to think my trousers were going to pop open but I couldn’t resist my main course of Chopped rump steak burger, aged cheddar, cacao, beer braised onions, french fries & creole chutney. I ordered mine medium rare and it was cooked to perfection! It was all swilled down with a few glasses of prosecco, what better way to spend a Wednesday night?
Sadly, I had to leave before the cocktail making class which I am super sad about. Cocktails, after all, are probably one of my most favourite things in the whole entire world. A big thank you again to Lela! It was so much fun meeting old & new friends in the blogging world, thank you for the wonderful company Lucy, Laura, Kellie, Em, Nic, Laura, Mary & Jessyca.
Now if you will excuse me, I’m off to go and get stuck in to a large bar of supermilk! Have you tried Roast + Conch yet? What was your favourite dish?
Rebecca xxx
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