A week or two before I left on my incredible journey I met up with Tony, a retired former businessman who has taken up chocolate making and makes the most incredible artisanal chocolates you have ever seen, heard of or even tasted!
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| Coffee and Chocolate Tasting with Tony at Pastis |
All his products are 100% handcrafted and individually made using home grown and natural ingredients, focusing on the seasonality and sustainability of the product.
Tony definitely knows the way to a girl's heart because when we met he brought me a delicious variety of tasters, showcasing the finest chocolate with the most deliciously flavoured and creamy fillings.
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| Box of Hand Made Chocolates Anyone? |
He is also big on experimenting with flavours, and while he does stock the most delicious salted caramel truffles, and the most peanut buttery peanut butter chocolates, some of his more exotic flavours include beer, pink champagne and pomegranate, passion fruit and habanero liquor and even goats cheese and lemon truffles.
Want to get your hands of some of this deliciousness??
Go find him at some of your local Cape Town Food Markets, including the Earth Fair Market in Tokai on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and let me know what you think.
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| Tony and His son doing what they do at Earth Fair |
Equally, have a look on his website to place your order.
Tony even takes chocolate suggestions, so if you have any awesome new ideas for chocolate flavours, let him know and I'm sure he will give it a bash! I know for a fact that he is busy working on my new favourite flavour as we speak and I absolutely cannot wait to see what he has created!
If you like what you see you can also find him on Facebook for regular updates on where he will be and to hear about all his new stuff.
Happy chocolate eating!
ps. All these photos were stolen by me, directly from Tony (thanks Tony!!) because I am such a greedy guts that I ate every last crumb before I could even think of taking a pic.
