Chocolate

• Birley Chocolate shop opens its doors in Chelsea

  

  Just over a year since Birley Bakery opened its doors on Chelsea Green the same team have now opened a chocolate shop and cafe on the same street. Birley Chocolate is ostensibly, as the name would suggest, a chocolate shop. But the new space has a proper cafe space at the rear of the store where they're going to be serving breakfast and lunch.

  On the menu there'll be overnight oats and croque madame croissants for breakfast

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• The best luxury Easter eggs in London

  

  We've handpicked a selection of some of London's most luxurious Easter eggs you can pick up in-store or get delivered to your door in time for Easter Sunday.

• First look - Harrods opens its new Chocolate Hall, the final food hall to be revamped

   

  Harrods has launched a completely renovated (and huge) chocolate hall. We went down for a first look.

• Selfridges launches its huge new confectionary hall

  

  There are quite a lot of changes happening all over Selfridges at the moment - and the latest is their confectionary department. If you've visited before, you'll have found quite the selection at the back of the shop - but now it's been brought right into the middle - waiting for you in a huge space as you take the escalators into the lower ground floor. 

  You'll be able to find plenty of chocolates down here from US

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• Heston Blumenthal creates chocolate scotch eggs for Easter at Waitrose

  

  Is too early to bring you an Easter story? Well just in case you're the kind of person who likes to do some serious advance planning around your seasonal chocolate consumption, we've just clapped eyes on these creations of Heston Blumenthal.

  The Chocolate Scotch Egg is going to be one of two Heston specials planned for his Easter collection at Waitrose. That 'yolk' is actually made from mango and yuzu fondant yolk inside a smoked milk

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• The best of London Chocolate Week 2018

  The best week in London for those with a sweet tooth, bar none. Yes London Chocolate Week is back again and we've picked out the most delicious things to try over the coming seven days.

• Le Chocolat Alain Ducasse is coming to Kings Cross Coal Drops Yard

  

  You might mainly know Alain Ducasse for his three-Michelin-starred restaurant in London (and many more in Paris) but the man also has his own Chocolate enterprise. Until now, the chocs have only been available in Paris or from the Bulgari hotel in Knightsbridge  - as well as the Eurostar departure lounge at Gare du Nord - and now it's coming to London.

  It's not straying too far from the London

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• Fred Sirieix heads all-star chef line-up for 2018's Chocs for Chance

  

  Eating chocolate at any time is a pleasurable experience. But eating chocolate and doing good at the same time is way better. So we're hugely behind the return of Chocs for Chance - a charity auction co-founded by Fred Sirieix of First Dates fame (and also General Manager at Galvin at Windows restaurant).

  The idea is simple. Top chefs create some amazing boxes of chocolates. They're raffled in an online auction and the proceeds go to Galvin’s Chance, a charity

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• Cadbury’s new Old Street pop-up is all about the Creme Eggs

  

  If you’re the kind of person quietly rejoices when that time of year finally comes around where it’s socially acceptable to scoff one Creme Egg (minimum) after your lunch, then you’ll definitely be wanting to get down to Old Street’s Creme Egg Camp pop-up.

  Inside, you’ll be able to get your sticky hands on sugary concoctions like a Creme Egg Toastie, Creme Egg cookies, a Creme Egg ‘Fongoo’ with

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• Chocolate desserts on London menus right now

  To celebrate Chocolate Week, we've rounded up some of the best chocolate puddings you can find in restaurants around town.