ChocoMaster chocolate workshop and tasting in Delicias

More than twenty chocolates on the table and hands covered in it: at Taller de Chocolate's ChocoMaster you tour the cocoa-producing countries tasting professional-grade chocolates, white, milk and dark, and then prepare four chocolatier creations that you take home in a tub. At the end of the tour comes the so-called fourth chocolate, the variety the house keeps as a surprise. It is a fun workshop, more about laughing than taking notes, led by a chocolatier with more than twenty years in the trade.

First you taste, then you get your hands dirty

The adult session lasts 105 minutes. The standard ticket costs €49.50 for one person, €79.50 for two and €119.50 for three; there is a premium ticket at €75 (€129 for two). For families there is the ChocoMaster Kids, 75 minutes, for children aged 2 to 9 with an adult who goes in free: twelve chocolates are tasted and five or six recipes made to take away, from €39.50.

The purchase comes first and the date afterwards

The system is unusual: you buy the ticket on the website, with no date and no expiry, and receive an email with a link to the session calendar, where you choose day and time. If no date suits you, they open new groups and let you know. The Madrid workshop is held at Calle de Juan de Mariana, 15, in the Delicias neighbourhood, near Atocha. The nearest metro is Méndez Álvaro, on line 6, with a Cercanías station and intercity buses, about seven minutes' walk; Palos de la Frontera, on line 3, is a little over ten.