Discover your chocolate in Seattle! Our city has several chocolate shops offering truffles, bean to bar chocolates, sipping chocolate, chocolate spiced with exotic flavors and many more. Learn about how chocolate is made, chocolate history or the meaning of “couverture” chocolate.
Charlotte has discovered many amazing chocolates downtown while working at the Pike Place Market as a barista and chocolate seller. She has studied the “real” history of chocolate and has researched the (sometimes confusing) terminology around “ethical chocolate”.
Elijah is a computer science major. He’s bona fide third generation Seattleite and craft chocolate maker. His special insights in the making of chocolate will help you know why chocolate has the flavors you love (or some you don’t love).
Learn about chocolate
Did you know that chocolate can make you happy by both increasing your serotonin and activating your dopamines?
Did you ever wonder: What was the first chocolate ever in the history of mankind?
Why does chocolate make us feel good? is it good for us? Is it bad for us?
What is best chocolate in the world and who decides?
What is the different between Fair Trade and Transparent Trade?
Can I really make my own chocolate from home, and how?
Cocoa Loca acknowledges that downtown Seattle is on Coast Salish land, specifically the ancestral land of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish and Muckleshoot People.