Chocolate Making and Tasting at a Local Factory in San José

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Experience Details
What You’ll Experience
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2 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 8 guests
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Language
English, Spanish, German
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Indulge in the art of chocolate making in San José! Learn the full cocoa process with expert guidance. Create and personalize your own confectionary masterpieces and savor your creations.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

In the hands of experts you will discover in an entertaining way the entire process of cocoa to become chocolate, you will also receive all the supplies to manufacture and carry your own personalized chocolates.

Sample Menu

DESSERT
Chocolate Tasting
Fresh cocoa fruit; dry and roasted cocoa beans; cocoa nibs; chocolates in different concentrations; cocoa drink.

What You Get

Snacks
Complete cocoa beans to bars tasting, more than 15 different fillings and toppings to convine with your chocolates creations, cacao drink and water
Creative materials for eco-friendly packaging (boxes, wrapping paper, stickers, etc.) Inputs for personal use (caps, aprons, gloves) Equipment necessary to make chocolates (molds, spatulas, machines).
Private transportation

Good To Know

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Wheelchair accessible

What You’ll Experience

It is a chocolate workshop with a complete tasting of all cocoa by-products. From the beginning, the history of cocoa in America is briefly exposed, tasting fresh cocoa fruit, then seeds in different stages of processing, nibs, cocoa powder, cocoa butter and chocolate drinks. Then we will get to work with the most modern chocolate world, the attendees will taste the different concentrations of cocoa and then make their own different chocolates mixing them with all the local ingredients that we have available and using their own creativity! Finally, we will share the (eco-friendly) materials so that you can pack your own creations and take a perfect memory of the experience.

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Tapir Chocolates, San José, Costa Rica, CR, 10101

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You can find our location as “Tapir Chocolates” in Google Maps, Waze or Uber. Yellow Gates. Is the Street 29, Av 7 & 9. Costarican direction: From "Parque Francia" 150mts North, is a white house, the only one with yellow gates (in front of the Kinder Garden). Barrio Escalante, San José, Costa Rica.
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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Please note that the time is in Central Standard Time.
Free cancellation (24 hours notice)
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10 meals
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