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Chocolate Squared

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View from our Workshop window

“Seattle’s Historic Heart”. Pioneer Square is a cool place. It’s an area of town layered with activity, personality, and history. For some it’s a destination to visit, for others it is home. Look around and you’ll start to read things like “my beloved Pioneer Square”, and “one of my favorite places in the World”. Those are some heavy endorsements, and we feel lucky to be part of this special community.

Share the Square. Such a historic neighborhood should have a website and publication of it’s very own, and it does! Writer for www.pioneersquare.org, Hien Dang, recently spent a little time with Aaron at Intrigue Chocolate Co.’s workshop. In a piece called Share the Square with Aaron Barthel you will get an informed perspective of Intrigue’s shop at Pioneer Square. Take a vicarious visit to where the chocolate magic happens.

Chocolate Artisan’s Workshop. Impressed with the avant-garde atmosphere of Intrigue Chocolatier’s personal workspace, Hien loved the way Aaron spends time with customers, giving them the chocolate tasting tour of a lifetime. We would love to have you come visit us when you make it to Seattle. Drop in and prepare to have some great samples!

100 Flavors and Counting!

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You can take the boy out of the country kitchen, but you can’t take the fun and endless experimenting out of the boy! Aaron, head Chocolatier and Culinary Innovator, has crossed a line and there’s no going back. Tireless seeker of new flavor combinations and four new truffle flavors this month have finally put him over the edge. The edge of cool, that is. Not to mention that Intrigue Truffle Flavors now top out at a cool 100!

Join us for our 100th flavor celebration Friday, April 22nd at 6:00pm in the Intrigue Chocolates Work/shop. Our personal celebration happens to fall on Earth Day, a celebration of planetary proportions. We are humbly grateful to share the day with such stellar company. As always, we pledge to do our utmost to care for this earthly home of ours, and urge you, kind consumer, to do the same.

Come to our party with music my Subaqueous (that is, Isaac Cotec, Seattle composer and quite a melodic innovator himself). Of course there will be truffles to taste (8 luscious varieties which include the four new ground-breakers), as well as all five of our hot cocoa mixes to sample. We’ll challenge you to learn about tea/truffle and coffee/truffle pairings, but it’s the kind of challenge most chocolate-lovers love to rise to!

T-Shirt sales will benefit Seattle Youth Garden Works, a Seattle Tilth program that empowers homeless and under-served youth through garden-based education and employment.

February’s Artwalk with Syniva Whitney

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The walls of Intrigue Chocolate’s workshop are graced with the artwork of Syniva Whitney throughout February. Those that joined us during last week’s First Thursday Artwalk in Pioneer Square were intrigued by more than chocolate.

You may ask yourself: What is digital glam-weaving? For that is what Whitney has up in the shop. We can’t tell you exactly what it says, and she wouldn’t want us to. We can say that Whitney fuses hand-made and digitally manufactured objects, seeking to create an understanding that the meaning of things is not so readily available as we might first assume.

It’s not all she does as an artist, but it certainly is demanding of your attention. We feel sure that she would be glad to not be put into any pigeon-hole. Her own life and work defy easy categorization. Techniques that she confesses to using are far ranging; weaving (industrial, digital and floor loom techniques), rug making, painting, screen printing, web design, digital photography, music and sound.
Just because this month’s artwalk has passed by, we would still love to show you Whitney’s art! Drop by and go to her website to see even more at www.synivawhitney.net

Intrigue Chocolates Has a New Shop!

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"Come on in!" -Aaron, Chocolatier

Hey, Intrigue Chocolates has a new home! We’ve actually been the happy occupants since November (2010), but just haven’t had time to make a big splash about it. Cleaning, painting, organizing all the bazillion details that come with moving in have been taking up our time. Then we’ve had our hands full with the revving up of the busy holiday season, and, well, you know how it is! We aren’t complaining. Busy is Good. But we’ve been remiss in getting out the news of our awesome new location. We had our first full day of work in our new digs on November 1st, but last week is when folks really started to track us down for their holiday gifting.

Here’s the skinny on how to find us:

  • Walk in the door at 76 S. Washington St., #M104, Seattle, WA 98104 (the “M” stands for Mezzanine Level, just one floor up from the street)
  • Hours of Business are Noon to 6:00pm, Monday through Friday
  • Call us at (206)829-8810 if you have trouble finding us, or if you need a lift in our cool historic freight elevator.

We are loving filling in our new space, and have had the great fortune to meet some of you face-to-face as your happy hosts. Can’t wait to see more of you soon!

Intrigue’s Artwalk Debut

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Historic Pioneer Square's 1st Thursday Artwalk

We love being part of Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square neighborhood. And now we’ve been officially introduced to the well-established art scene that’s been going on here for decades.

Intrigue Chocolate’s new shop has opened its doors, and even better, there is Art hanging on our walls. It’s amazing how much more like home it feels here now that things of beauty grace our walls. Our space has been transformed by the photographs of Rick Scott. You should so come in and see his collection, or check out more of his work at photographybyrickscott.com. We are lucky to have Scott’s pics “hanging around” for at least a month.

People stopped by for a taste of seasonal truffle flavors, and our new hot cocoa mix. We were ever so happy to welcome a crowd of neighbors into our shop. Thanks for making us feel welcome, too, neighbors!