{"id":12523,"date":"2010-10-15T23:31:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T22:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=12523"},"modified":"2021-10-31T23:01:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T23:01:29","slug":"chocolate-cocktail-matching-at-le-meridien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=12523","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate &#038; Cocktail matching at Le M\u00e9ridien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it was bad planning to have both <a title=\"Cocktail Week\" href=\"http:\/\/www.londoncocktailweek.com\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cocktail Week<\/a> and <a title=\"Chocolate Week\" href=\"http:\/\/chocolate-week.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chocolate Week<\/a> at the same time, but\u00a0 it does present the opportunity to match cocktails with specific chocolates.\u00a0 <a title=\"Chocolate Ecstasy Tours\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolateecstasytours.com\/cocktails.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chocolate Ecstasy Tours <\/a>organised such an event in the new cocktail bar (<a title=\"Longitude 0\u00b08' \" href=\"http:\/\/www.lemeridienpiccadilly.co.uk\/longitude08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Longitude 0\u00b08&#8242;<\/a>) in Le M\u00e9ridien Piccadilly.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12523 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tn_IMGP2748.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tn_IMGP2748-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tn_IMGP2760-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tn_IMGP2762.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tn_IMGP2762-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tn_IMGP2763.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tn_IMGP2763-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tn_IMGP2757.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tn_IMGP2757-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tn_IMGP2755.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tn_IMGP2755-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tn_IMGP2767.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tn_IMGP2767-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The matching was a bit hit and miss, but on the whole good fun and an excellent concept.\u00a0 We had a total of 7 cocktails and lots of canapes, which made this a very good deal. There was also the goodie bag with\u00a0 a selection of chocolate samples from\u00a0<a title=\"Melt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.meltchocolates.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melt<\/a>, <a title=\"Chocolate and Love\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolateandlove.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chocolate and Love <\/a>and <a title=\"Paul A Young\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paulayoung.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul A Young <\/a>(who was among the\u00a0Chocolatiers in attendance).<\/p>\n<p>Chocablog, who were lucky enough to be involved in &#8220;helping out&#8221; during the preparation stage for this event, have a great post on it &#8211; love the photographs, see :-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Chocablog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chocablog.com\/features\/chocolate-ecstasy-cocktails-at-le-meridien\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chocablog post<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it was bad planning to have both Cocktail Week and Chocolate Week at the same time, but\u00a0 it does present the opportunity to match cocktails with specific chocolates.\u00a0 Chocolate Ecstasy Tours organised such an event in the new cocktail bar (Longitude 0\u00b08&#8242;) in Le M\u00e9ridien Piccadilly. The matching was a bit hit and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=12523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chocolate &#038; Cocktail matching at Le M\u00e9ridien&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,213,7,8],"tags":[422,423,425,424,421,249],"class_list":["post-12523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chocolate","category-food-festivals","category-london","category-uk","tag-chocolate-and-love","tag-chocolate-ecstasy-tours","tag-le-meridien","tag-longitude-08","tag-melt","tag-paul-a-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12523"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29865,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523\/revisions\/29865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}