• The Berkeley Chocolate Club was founded in 2003 by Leonard Pitt.
  • The club came together informally out of a taste for chocolate and the pleasure of socializing around something that is pure fun.
  • Members meet monthly in Leonard Pitt's cottage in North Berkeley.
  • We keep our numbers to 14 or 15 simply because it is too difficult to accommodate more.
  • If members cannot attend, we have a list of alternates ready to step in.
  • Generally we keep to chocolate bars and taste a maximum of eight different selections each month, but we have found 6 to be the optimum number.
  • We started out with each member bringing a bar, but that was simply too much chocolate.
  • We do dark chocolate only. Milk chocolate need not apply.
  • We fondly a special meeting with only chocolate truffles. And one with chocolate and fresh fruit - yum!
  • The chocolate is rated on a scale of 1 to 10.
  • One day we will do a meeting revolving around "The Best of the Worst."
    • Aside from the truly wonderful and imaginative chocolates we have tasted, there have been some, well, what else can you say, lousy chocolate, or as the French would say, "chocolat execrable." We will assemble them all like a festival of B movies and select the worst, to find, in other words, the best of the worst.
  • On two fabulous occasions, Gloria has cooked unforgettable Chocolate Dinners for 24 guests.

 

 
 

 

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