{"id":485068,"date":"2026-10-04T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485068\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T19:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:48:11","slug":"chocolatiers-chef-talks-and-tastings-set-for-18th-los-angeles-chocolate-salon-in-pasadena-pasadena-weekendr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485068\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolatiers, Chef Talks and Tastings Set for 18th Los Angeles Chocolate Salon in Pasadena \u2013 Pasadena Weekendr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-140927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chocolate-183543_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Chocolate Salon comes to the Pasadena Convention Center on Sunday, October 4, for its 18th annual edition, with chocolate tasting, demonstrations, chef talks and ongoing interviews by TasteTV\u2019s Chocolate Television program.<\/p>\n<p>Featured chocolatiers include Mignon Chocolate, COBA Espresso Chocolate and Blue Canary Sweets. Salon entry includes all chocolate tastings and demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>Chef and cookbook author Tara Punzone of Pura Vita West Hollywood will give a cookbook author talk on \u201cVegana Italiana.\u201d Vladimir Litt of Truffles N Toffee will lead a panel called \u201cLet\u2019s Talk Chocolate!\u201d Lee Scott Theisen will present \u201cLet\u2019s Taste Chocolate: Bean to Bar Chocolate Vs Mass Manufactured Chocolate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buy ahead to save a few dollars. Tickets are $22.50 online and $25 at the door, $10 for children 6 to 12 and free for children under 6.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Chocolate Salon will run on Sunday, October 4 at 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Pasadena Convention Center, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/300+E.+Green+St.,+Pasadena?entry=gmail&amp;source=g\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/300%2BE.%2BGreen%2BSt.,%2BPasadena?entry%3Dgmail%26source%3Dg&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1791204202207000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2NgYL0gxJA7nMmHJaSKP6H\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">300 E. Green St., Pasadena<\/a>. For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.lachocolatesalon.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1791202530683000&amp;sa=E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q%3Dhttps:\/\/www.lachocolatesalon.com%26source%3Dgmail%26ust%3D1791202530683000%26sa%3DE&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1791204202207000&amp;usg=AOvVaw39IHL-uekNw1r56RzI_Pml\">https:\/\/www.lachocolatesalon.com<\/a>. Tickets: $22.50 online, $25 at the door, $10 for children 6 to 12, free for children under 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Chocolate Salon comes to the Pasadena Convention Center on Sunday, October 4, for its 18th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[26,1984,1986,421,48,52,51,1979,1985,23,47,1978,50,49,1987,1992,1993,1977,1989,1982,1980,1991,1983,1988,1990,1981],"class_list":["post-485068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-breaking-news","tag-calendar","tag-community-news","tag-food-and-drink","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-latest-news","tag-lifestyles","tag-local-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county-news","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-nonprofit-news","tag-official-events-calendar","tag-old-town-pasadena-news","tag-pasadena","tag-pasadena-arts-and-culture","tag-pasadena-city-guide","tag-pasadena-events","tag-pasadena-living","tag-pasadena-restaurants","tag-pasadena-shopping-news","tag-popular-things-to-do-in-pasadena","tag-things-to-do-in-pasadena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}