Spanish chocolatier Casa Cacao launches pop-up at Cupping Room Harbour City
Real chocolates for real connoisseurs
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Treat yourself to exquisite chocolate as luxury Spanish chocolatier Casa Cacao brings an exclusive bean-to-bar chocolate pop-up at the recently opened Cupping Room in Harbour City. Just in time for Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day, the pop-up will offer a delightful range of indulgent chocolates that are perfect for gifting, including exquisitely crafted bonbons and chocolate bars.
Photograph: Courtesy Joan Pujol-Creus
Owned by famed three-Michelin-star restaurant El Celler de Can Roca in Catalonia, Casa Cacao adopts a sustainable, bean-to-bar approach to making their chocolates. All cacao beans are carefully selected from South American countries as well as The Dominican Republic and India, and arrives at Casa Cacao s workshops in Spain, where they are then sorted by hand, roasted, cracked and winnowed, then combined with organic cane sug
What do you get when one of the world’s best pastry chefs turns his passion towards bean-to-bar chocolate making? The answer is Casa Cacao, an ambitious chocolatier by Jordi Roca of Spain’s legendary El Celler De Can Roca restaurant. And now, Hongkongers will be able to sample the highly sought after chocolates as the chef announces a collaboration with Cupping Room in Harbour City to run a pop-up launching on 31 January.
Opened in 2020, the original concept of Casa Cacao combines a chocolate factory, shop and cafe along with the Hotel Casa Cacao on the upper floor. Roca and his team source cacao beans from Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Perus, the Dominican Republic and India which are then delivered to their workshop in Girona where they are carefully sorted by hand before being roasted to create the highest quality chocolate through sustainable processes. To minimise waste, for example, the shells once roasted and cracked are processed into a cacao paper that are used to wrap