Chocs away! First ever chocolate festival lands in Birmingham

Birmingham may be the city behind Cadbury’s and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but the city has never celebrated the treat that put us on the map; chocolate, until now.

The city’s first ever chocolate festival will take place this weekend on Brindleyplace. Taking place in Central Square on Saturday, Chocival, the city’s first chocolate festival will feature music, entertainment and food stalls selling a range of indulgent and unusual chocolate treats.

Alex Perrins, part of the destination marketing team at Brindleyplace, said: “As almost everyone loves chocolate, we thought we’d celebrate Birmingham’s choccie heritage with the first chocolate festival at Brindleyplace.

“On the day, Central Square will be choc-a-block with stalls, offering visitors the chance to taste a tempting selection of chocolate goods, including cookies, cakes, gooey brownies and local handmade chocolates. There’s even chocolate inspired bottled and cask beers or cocoa flavoured vodka and gin. As much as we’d like to, we can’t turn the canals around the estate into a Willy Wonka style chocolate river, although there will be a chocolate fountain stall.

“We’re excited to add this unique offering to our autumn events and tempt the city’s sweet tooth.”

Every trader at the festival will have a cocoa connection, from cookies, cakes and brownies or chocolate-flavoured beers.

The festival, that is sure to hit the sweet spot for the city’s chocoholics, will take place between 11am and 6pm.