Halloween Chocolate Tasting Experience

Hotel Chocolat is bringing back its guided seasonal tastings at Fort Kinnaird on Saturday 24 October, and this time they've gone full Halloween. It's their first run of these sessions in a year, so it's a bit of a return for the store's tasting events.

The session takes you through a curated selection of classic and all-new autumn recipes, so you'll get a mix of the familiar and the new. Once you've worked your way through those, you get to pick your own treat from the store's Halloween boxed selections — the kind of things they've named Grim Treaters, Oozy Eyes and Ghastly Ghouls. Along the way, the team helps you figure out your 'Chocolate Love Match' among the brand's different chocolate profiles, like Patisserie Dreamer and Serious Dark Fix, so you leave with a better idea of what you actually go for.

There are a few practical things to keep in mind before you book. The whole thing is run standing up and lasts about half an hour, so it's a relatively quick, casual drop-in rather than a sit-down affair. It's not suitable for anyone with nut allergies, and they don't recommend it for a vegan diet, though they can offer vegan chocolates to accompanying friends if you get in touch beforehand.

It runs at 13:00 at Hotel Chocolat, 66 Kinnaird Park, Unit 29A, Edinburgh EH15 3RD, and tickets are £12 per person.