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This event will feature an afternoon (Friday 26 March from 2-7pm) of demonstrations by top pastry chefs from some of the best five star hotels and renowned restaurants in the capital, all using Valrhona products in their chocolate infused recipes.
The chefs will include Valrhona’s own pastry chef Andrew Gravett, Abel Vieilleville from Skylon restaurant, Tal Hausen head pastry chef at The Lanesborough, Johannes Bonin executive pastry chef Connaught Hotel and Mourad Khiat The Berkeley's head pastry chef. BBC Master Chef winner Steven Wallis will also be using Valrhona chocolate for his demonstration of courgette flower tempura & duck salad with dark chocolate vinegrate on Saturday 27 March at 1pm. All demonstrations will take place in the main marquee.
Pastry chefs will also join master chocolatiers to create a beautiful display of sculptures made entirley from chocolate. Visitors can see this at Festival Riverside Level 1 entrance in the Royal Festival Hall. It will be open for the public on the days of the festival, from 10am - 11pm.
As always, the Festival will consist of dozens of stalls, all individually focused on one area of the delicious world of chocolate as well as a range of workshops, tasting talks, demonstrations and book signings.
Exhibiting companies include some of the best in the country - such as Best British Chocolatier William Curley, Damian Allsop and Paul Wayne Gregory, as well as renowned chocolate companies like Rococo and Hotel Chocolat.
If you are a chocoholic and want to learn more about the sweet brown stuff then you cannot afford to miss this event, and snap up some Easter treats into the bargain!
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For more information on The Chocolate Festival please visit www.festivalchocolate.co.uk or www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Notes to Editors:
• The event takes place from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 of March 2010, 11am – 8pm daily (6pm on Sunday) at Southbank Centre Square. The square is located behind the Royal Festival Hall and is five minutes walk from Waterloo & Embankment tube stations and various bus routes. Admission is free.
• Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest arts centre, occupying a 21-acre site that sits in the midst of London’s most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames. The site has an extraordinary creative and architectural history stretching back to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Southbank Centre is home to the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and the Hayward Gallery as well as The Saison Poetry Library and the Arts Council Collection.
• The event director Yael Rose, can be contacted on thechocolatefestival@yahoo.co.uk or 07898681573.
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