Chocolate, York's Sweet Story

When we arrived at our hotel in York, the first word to catch my eye in one of the posters displayed in the lift when we were going to our room was ‘chocolate’.

To which my response was obviously an instantaneous ‘chocolate, where?, I want it. NOW’.
Seeing my despair, the very friendly hotel manager at the Dean Court Hotel told us that there was a chocolate museum opening the next day in York. What a great timing!

Of course it became my number one priority on my things to do in York list and it was my main duty to report on York’s Sweet Story chocolate museum.

Free Sweets and Chocolate

Chocolate Bars

As soon as we arrived at the King’s Square where the museum is located we encountered a mass of people who were as much excited about the Sweet Story opening as I was.

The atmosphere was fantastic! There was a marching band, which I absolutely adore, circus performers welcoming everyone and sweets and chocolates being given away.

Epic Chocolate Tour Guide

York's Sweet Story Tour

It could not get better than that. Despite the short queue we didn’t have to wait long to hop on the squishy lift to the first floor where our tour started. We received a very warm welcome from our guide, Jemma, who is an absolutely entertaining woman, or how she’d herself say, “epic”.

We were also welcomed by a table full of chocolates which we were to be tasted after an introduction on how to do chocolate tasting. This was a bit tortuous I must say as I just wanted to devour the chocolate.

York’s History of Chocolate

She guided us through two or three different rooms afterwards, where you can follow the interesting history since the discovery of cocoa beans with its origins in Central America, to how chocolate made it to York.

Kit Kat’s Are Blue?

The Blue Kit Kat

Towards the end of the tour you are invited to create your own chocolate wrapper in a very interactive room or dribble over the counter while a chef prepares some chocolate right in front of your eyes. Some old chocolate wrappers and tv commercials are also available to be flickered through. It was quite surprising to find out that my favourite chocolate bar, Kit Kat, has its origins in York, and it was originally wrapped in a blue wrapper?

After such an emotional experience, you can show your love for chocolate on a post it note and stick up on their wall next to notes left by previous visitors.