2025 chocolate year

In 2024, Turin Epicurean Capital turned 10 🎆 and we feel very privileged to have grown so much thanks to you who keep supporting us online and in real life 🙏 

May 2025 be a very productive and positive year for you all, as for us in Turin it set to be the year of chocolate 🎇

Get ready and budget at least 5 days here because they will be packed with museums, concerts, shops, food and wine, you will still leave craving to come back for more 😍

Piazza Castello

In Italy, the Holidays officially end on January 6th when la Befana delivers her stockings full of sweets or (pricy sugar) coal to the naughty kids. In the Italian Silicon Valley located in Ivrea that's when the celebrations for Carnival or Mardi Gras season start. 

And in Turin, CioccolaTO aka our chocoTorino fest will also take place all around downtown from February 27th to March 2nd, thus allowing you to also take part in the Carnival funeral in Ivrea on Mardi Gras, on March 4th!

a sea of gold wrapped gianduiotti

As we are posting, the 2025 edition of CioccolaTO is still in the making but we already know its program will be new and rich compared to the past! In fact, besides the stalls selling chocolate specialties (traditional, new and fusion), there will also be exhibits, workshops, tastings, presentations and new events to network. 

It won't be just a feast for chocoholics but also a B2B event for all the chocolate pros and chocolate companies of any size. The locations will be spread out all around downtown from Piazza Vittorio - the largest open square in Europe - and in some downtown museums and palazzos. 

CioccolaTO wants to invite the whole world of choco lovers and chocolate professionals over to Turin to enjoy our chocolate AND to share how our local food and wine traditions pair perfectly with chocolate, a key ingredient in Piedmont since the late 1600s!

No wonder Turin has been the official chocolate supplier to the European royal courts since the 18th century!

Turin's wider region, Piedmont produces 40 % of the Italian chocolate and the Turin area counts 52 chocolate factories - 6 at least open to the public. Customarily we give family, friends and clients boxes of chocolates and pralines, and naturally, such boxes are often collectibles with great art!

Nutella was also born right here in 1946 and many artisan versions are produced virtually by any Turin chocolate master. Strolling around Turin it is quite normal to stumble on artisan chocolates and pralines pretty much everywhere: in cafés, pastry shops and chocolate boutiques.

Mark up your calendars for cioccolaTO 2025 but remember that in Turin, artisan chocolate is our way of life and Easter means the largest choco eggs you have ever seen!

our small chocolate Easter eggs are 40cm / 16in tall

If the quality of shops, the size of stores and the number of theaters and bookshops can tell you a lot about a city and its people, then the many artisan chocolate shops around town will reveal even more about our priorities and values in Turin.

To share our epicurean lifestyle, and specifically our local love for chocolate we have designed a chocolate tour so you amici can stock up on some samples and taste test our glorious hot chocolate(s). 

Forget about any big brand that comes to your mind!! Hot chocolate in Turin is as dense and velvety as ganache - yes, like a melted chocolate tablet! 

In the cold months we love it with a generous dollop of whipped cream either on the side or served on top; and in the summer, we enjoy it cold - a real treat all chocoholics should try!

Naturally, our Alpine pastures provide us with the best fresh milk and cream and here in Turin, from spring to fall, you can enjoy at least 6 different chocolate artisan gelato flavors!

In Turin we enjoy gelato all year long

Even though there is no artisan chocolate production when temperatures are above 18C / 64.4F and chocolate factories are closed to the public during the 40 days before Easter, there is plenty of chocolate in Turin to enjoy all year long!

Channel your best Willy Wonka and book a chocolate tour of Turin with us, pair it with a chocolate factory tour and tasting and why not? 

Do it like our Turinepi18 guests and have a cooking class where cocoa is the protagonist of the dishes you'll savor at the end!

And finally, yes, Turin has also a chocolate museum and if you are a coffee lover, you just can't miss out on bicerin: our staple coffee drink that includes chocolate too, of course. A great souvenir from Turin is the liqueur version of bicerin usually sold in a glass bottle shaped like the Turin symbol building: Mole Antonelliana!

Follow the scent amici, let chocolate allure you to Turin and start checking your flights to ✈ TRN

📧 Email Lucia: turinepi@gmail.com for your private tours, tastings and private classes, to schedule a consultation session or our concierge services.

Wait no longer, Turin is waiting for you 🎉

the Roman lanes of Turin