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It has certainly felt like an eternal summer here on the west coast, but, as if to foretell the sudden change in weather, the last of our last Endless Summer bars sold out at the shop on the weekend. Yet, with every passing comes the birth of something new, in this case, an Autumn Dream:…

The start of September was a very exciting time for us as we heard the news that we won 22 awards (19 bars, plus 3 specials) at the International Chocolate Awards Americas in New York, the most awards received by any of the 140+ chocolate companies from North, South, and Central America who entered the…

We are happy to announce that we have started doing Chocolate Tours & Tasting Events at our Granville Island workshop. They are a fun event that literally walks you through the process of making chocolate followed by the tasting of some of our award winning bean-to-bar chocolate. Some highlights from the events: See and smell…

The nights are getting longer, and on the wings of a cold wind, an old friend has returned once more. The Winter’s Eve is back, spreading aromas of warm spices all throughout our workshop. This seasonal release is made with single estate cacao beans from Costa Esmeraldas in northern Ecuador, stone ground with Ceylon cinnamon,…

You might remember from the summer a photo of Vince in sweat soaked T-shirts, trekking through the northern Philippines visiting with cacao farmers and researchers (and scaring the daylights out of us with pics of spiders and cane toads). Well, it’s been several months in the making, but the fruits of that journey are now…

New limited release dropping today! This white chocolate is made with Peruvian cacao butter and a ceremonial grade Japanese matcha from Yame, Fukuoka, curated by Jude from Cultivate Tea. It is a first harvest matcha, the leaves of which are hand picked and grown at high altitudes, where the air is moist and foggy and…

We have a new origin! Chuncho, meaning “from the jungle” is an ancient and genetically isolated cacao variety grown in the Urubamba Valley of Peru. The Incas once used this valley as a major trade route when travelling from the Andes Mountains to the jungle. The cacao beans grown here come from very old trees,…

Last winter we collaborated with Layunin, a Vancouver-based pop up restaurant and trailblazers in the local Filipino Food Movement scene, to create a Filipino-inspired chocolate bar to raise funds for Typhoon Ulysses victims in the northern Philippine province of Cagayan. In cooperation with relief volunteers from the municipality of Tuao and the Provincial Health Office,…

Introducing Kasama Pops or KPops for short, just in time for the summer! These frozen treats consist of a custard ice cream made in house, dipped in our bean-to-bar chocolate. This weekend we have 2 flavours of KPops for you to try, Chocolate Mousse and Raspberry Brûlée. The Chocolate Mousse features a custard dark chocolate…

Just in time for the heat wave hitting us this weekend we have a fun collaboration to continue to celebrate Philippine Heritage Month. We have teamed up with Mark Tagulao, co-founder and director of La Glace Ice Cream. La Glace has won many awards and accolades, most notably they were named Metro Vancouver’s Best Ice Cream by the Vancouver Sun. We…

We are pleased to announce our latest release and collaboration just in time for the weekend. This special collaboration with our neighbours, The Liberty Distillery, features their Trust Single Cask Whiskey that was aged for 3 years in Madeira barrels. A windswept Portuguese island off the coast of Africa, Madeira has a winemaking tradition dating…

June is Philippine heritage month, and to celebrate, we’re bringing back an old favourite! We were honoured to recently receive a silver medal for this bar at the International Chocolate Awards in New York. As many of you know, our chocolate journey began in the Philippines and we love being able to highlight the amazing…

We hope you’ve been enjoying the sights and smells of all the fresh greenery this time of year. We’ve been tasting lots of greens these last few weeks and are excited to tell you about our new release! In springtime, the forest awakens. Woodland creatures nibble on fresh shoots, and spruce tips burst forth from…

The winners of the World Final of the International Chocolate Awards have been announced and we are happy to report we have won 5 awards. The Single Malt and Raspberry White both won Silver awards while the Kapé Espresso, Durian White and Strawberry White all took home Bronze awards. We feel completely honoured to have…

We hope you’ve been enjoying all this sunshine. Spring has truly sprung, and a new release has just sprung into our lineup. Imagine yourself at a quaint cocktail party in the middle of a botanical garden. You pick up a piece of chocolate and take a bite. As it melts on your tongue, breathe in…

We hope you’re getting a boost from the sunny weather this week. The cherry blossoms are just starting to pop on Granville Island and we’re seeing more and more people out on the boardwalk near our shop. We received quite the boost ourselves last Thursday with the exciting news that our chocolate won 10 awards at the…

For us it has been a year of new beginnings, and, as the winter ebbs and spring beckons, we have something new to share with you. In celebration of Lunar New Year, the Year of the Ox, which begins on the 12th of February, we collaborated with Noisette by Olivia to bring you this special…

EXCITING NEWS!!! Final inspections are finished, permits are stamped, and we will be officially opening our new chocolate shop on Granville Island this Friday, January 1st!Our shop, at 2-1244 Cartwright Street, will be open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 10am-5pm.For the rest of the week we’ll be closed for production, but you can pick up your…

After a hectic week of drawing, designing, and printing (and Stefan burning the midnight oil to code the interface!), we’re excited to launch a new feature on our website. You can now purchase gift boxes of our chocolate bars and include a custom message for the person receiving the gift, which we’ll print on a…

We hope you’re all doing okay in these challenging times. Here on the west coast, the winter storms are starting to sweep over our city. But while it may be dark and cold outside, something warm and fiery is flowing from our chocolate forges here in the heart of East Vancouver. For this very special…

It’s November, the nights are getting chilly, and a long lost traveller has sojourned back into our workshop, spreading aromas of warm spices all throughout the kitchen. This seasonal release, which returns every year on the wings of an icy breeze, is made with cacao beans from Costa Esmeraldas (Emerald Coast) in northern Ecuador. We…

Throughout the year, we make a ton of test batches. One of the funnest parts of making bean-to-bar chocolate is tasting new bean origins with unique flavours, and learning about where they’re grown. Only a small fraction of those tests ever turn into a release, but, after much tweaking, we’re excited to finally be able…

Kasama Chocolate’s Single Malt chocolate bar was recently announced as an honourable mention for the Made in Vancouver Awards from Vancouver Magazine. This is a limited release we do annually using Odd Society Distillery’s award-winning single malt whisky. For this limited batch, we roasted our cacao beans, then aged the nibs in an empty cask…