The festival was full of events:
- A chocolate city has been made of three tons of chocolate by the well-known chocolatier in Ukraine - Valentyn Shtefanio.
- Together with the AVK Company record was set - the biggest heart of chocolate dominoes (were used 15 000 elements).
- During the Festival was demonstrated 24 hours of romantic movies - on the second floor of the Palace of Arts was organized with tables of night-club «Rafinad People», where guests had the opportunity to watch romantic movies from "Arthauz traffic" and ordered chocolate shakes.
- 6 tonns of chocolate products were sold.
Chocolate Festival 2011 Photo Gallery
The first day of the Festival:
The grand opening of the Festival was attended by honorary guests: world legend - Robertino Loretti and Mayor of the city – Andriy Sadovyi. At the opening of the legendary singer received an unexpected gift - his chocolate portrait, created by a master-сhoсolatier Valentyn Shtefanio.
Festival continued with the chocolate fashion show from designer Uliana Barabash and "Lviv Chocolate Shop".
Every day, Festival accompanied by performances of classical quartets.
The second day of the Festival:
Exquisite classical music performance opened the second day of the Chocolate Festival.The most anticipated event of the second day was the workshop of well-known TV-star of cooking show Dasha Malakhova, who has gathered many viewers and her fans. Together with children Dasha prepared muffin and dessert.
On the same day guests witnessed the grand opening of the chocolate city that was created during the first days by chocolatier Valentyn Shtefanio.
The third day of the Festival:
On this day Dasha Malakhova held a master class in cooking chocolate desserts for all chocolate lovers. After the master class all the guests had the opportunity to take photos with Dasha.
In 2011 Chocolate festival was full of guests from other countries. In addition to our outstanding chocolatier from Ukraine - Mr. Shtefanio, the festival had an honour to be visited by prominent chocolatier from Russia - Eduard Lebedev, who represented a global manufacturer and festival partner Barry Callebaut and held master classes on cooking delicious chocolate candies.
The traditional gift for all guests was a big chocolate cake, prepared by Eduard Lebedev, Dasha Malakhova and Valentin Shtefano and everybody could enjoy a piece of this sweet masterpiece.
The fourth day of the Festival:
A special day - February 14.On this day all guests became participants of special prize lottery - airfare for two to any country in the world flying with Turkish Airlines. Entrance tickets were used for lottery and the winner was determined - it was Yuriy Zastavnyy.
Special gift for all the guests was performanceof sensitive acoustic band "One in a canoe" and bright member of TV-Show "X-Factor "- Victoria Zyablikova and “Jam” Band.
During the whole festival the second floor of Palace was set for children. Here children and adults could make their own chocolate candies, paint with chocolate and participate in interesting contests and workshops on creating shapes with balloons. Attractions and interactive entertainment for the children were arranged by “Wagabunda” theatre clowns (Poland)
