Not that there needs to be another reason for me to hang out in the Proctor District, with all it’s unique stores and locally owned restaurants, but there is a special weekend that draws me in like no other: the Proctor District’s Annual Chocolate Festival. You read it right; they’ve created a glutinous weekend to remind you of what candy-lined holidays are headed your way.
This weekend the neighborhood, which houses favorites such as Metropolitan Market, Babblin’ Babs Bistro, Envy, Europa Bistro, Blue Mouse Theater and others, will host a chocolate festival to rival all food-type festivals. More than 40 Proctor District businesses will play the wacky chocolate game this weekend, and the candy-themed event will hold no sweet-toothed boundaries. Clothing stores and gift shops will have chocolate-colored sale items, restaurants will have special menu items, and discounts from all over will be at your cocoa-loving fingertips.
Kelly Henzinger of Metropolitan Market came clean with the market’s participation. Sunday, Oct. 12, from 1-6 p.m., Met Market will offer Fat Cat Fudge, homemade metro market brownies as well as hosting a local chocolatier who will prepare organic truffles. Saturday holds daylong chocolate events as well.
Somewhere in the midst of your binge, I suggest you attend the free chocolate pancake breakfast held at Washington-Hoyt Elementary Saturday from 9-11 a.m. Be sure to kiss a PTA member for that pancake, they flipped those flapjacks just for you. Also take the time to pick up a Chocolate Express Passport at a designated location in order to collect a chocolate-y prize at the end.
[Proctor Business District, North26th and Proctor, Tacoma]
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