The Squamish Hot Chocolate Festival is coming up, and this year there are more options to try than ever before.
Twenty businesses across Squamish will be dishing out tasty hot chocolates from Feb. 3 to 20, giving participants 18 days to try them all.
“At this year’s festival we’ll see Squamish’s finest local coffee crafters create a unique hot chocolate that will tempt your taste buds and awaken your senses,” reads the description of the event.
“New this year, there are more cafés and restaurants participating than ever before, as well as creative and unusual versions of our favourite dessert drink.”
Back for the third year, these businesses will each have a drink:
- Chatterbox Cafe
- Sea to Sky Gondola
- Smokebluff Coffee House
- 1914 Coffee Co.
- Caffe Garibaldi
- Fox & Oak
- Green Olive Market and Cafe
- Grateful Gift Shop
- Noshy Cafe
- Peak Provisions
- Sunflower Bakery & Cafe
- Treat Squamish
- Zephyr Cafe
- Alice & Brohm (both locations)
- Cloudburst Cafe
- Galileo Coffee Company
- Raincity Distillery
- The Crabapple Cafe
- Fergie’s Cafe
- Ride Hub Cafe
Several unique entries this year include Smokebluff Coffee House’s optional cricket protein doughnut or Rain Distillery’s ‘Champurrado Apres’ hot chocolate cocktail.
For those looking to try them all, Treat Squamish’s hot chocolate will only be available at the Squamish Farmer’s Market on Feb. 5 and 18.
For more information about the event, including what’s being served at each business, please visit the website for the festival at .