Puerto Viejo hands on chocolate making class. From bean to bar, get chocolatey!

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3 hours
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1 - 8 guests
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English
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Dive into the rich world of chocolate with hands-on making in Puerto Viejo! Unearth history, taste cacao fruit, and craft your own bar from scratch. Engage in 3 hours of pure delight.

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

Experience Details

If you’ve ever wanted to make your own chocolate or learn all the wonderful intricacies and processes involved in making the world’s favourite treat, this is the class for you!


In 3 hours you will travel through time: from the history of the tree, to the myths, to the very real and important part cacao and chocolate played in the cultures of Mesoamérica. And of course you’ll also be making chocolate. From trying the raw fruit to roasting, grinding and separating the shell from the nibs you’ll be working just like a professional making award winning chocolate. You’ll learn some of the amazing medicinal uses of chocolate before making your own chocolate ‘medicine’ to take home. Finally, you’ll temper freshly poured molten chocolate and you’ll make your own bar to wrap and enjoy later.


There are chocolate tours all over the world, but this is a real hands on experience - you will get chocolate on you!


A fun and delicious class!

Sample Menu

DESSERT
Try fresh cacao fruit and fermented and dried beans!
Roasted cacao and chocolate!

What You Get

Tea and coffee
We’ll make a traditional Central American chocolate drink. Water will also be available.
Snacks
We’ll be making two types of chocolate, a traditional style drink and a temperered chocolate. You’ll be sampling chocolate in every form throughout the workshop.

Good To Know

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Service animals allowed

What You’ll Experience

During our time together we will visit cacao trees and learn about their history, culture and medicinal uses. Then we’ll return to our chocolate making kitchen where we will learn about fermentation and the magical processes of turning a cacao seed into a chocolate bar. We will make a bar from beans from the farm, covering every part of the process in exactly the way we make chocolate everyday. You’ll leave with roasted beans and fine chocolate!

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

J6WQ+J3 Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Limón Province, Costa Rica, CR

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Playa Negra is just outside Puerto Viejo. We are the last building on the right on entrada pan dulce. Look for Talamanca Chocolate on google maps. We are the last building on the right, a low brown building with a green metal roof.
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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Strong recommend
April 08, 2025
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Fascinating & great value. Ansel is a delight; a font of wisdom & knowledge presented with passion & humour. I will be recommending her to my favourite podcaster, Blindboy, as a guest. I wish I'...read more

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Chocolate making
March 30, 2025
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The owner of the chocolate factory is lovely and very knowledgable about Costa Rica and about chocolate making. It was a really enjoyable and highly informative experience. It was also great to hav...read more

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Best Tour in Costa Rica !!!
March 18, 2025
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The tour was recommended to us by a girl and we were very enthusiastic. There was not a single negative point that we could complain about. The location is not far from Puerto Viejo and very easy t...read more

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Great experience
February 22, 2025
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We learned about the whole process of making chocolate from start to finish and got to try traditional hot chocolate, take home some chocolate and cacao beans.

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It was a very interesting...
February 16, 2025
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It was a very interesting experience, loved learning everything about chocolate. Would recommend to everyone!

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