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From Caputo’s to You: Black Friday Special (expired)
by Adrianna Pachelli on
(OFFER EXPIRED IN 2015)
Black Friday. Either you love it or you hate it, there isn’t much in between.
This year, we want to give you a gift for being such a great gifter yourself. Spend $50 dollars on our website beginning Friday (Nov 27, 2015: offer has expired), and we’ll send you three spectacular Amedei bars. Tis the season to treat yourself, after all. You’ll get Amede...
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Happy Thanksgiving From Our Family To Yours
by Yelena Caputo on
Eating well and eating often is at the core of our values—not just as a business, but as a family. We’ll me enjoying the holiday, and we hope you have a foodtastic Thanksgiving with yours as well!
Please note: All locations of Caputo’s Market & Deli will be closed on Thanksgiving.
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Thanksgiving Recipe: Beehive Bitters Cranberry Sauce and Cocktail
by Adrianna Pachelli on
It’s time, my friends. We’re all getting ready to travel, to cook, to deal with in-laws, and to enjoy Thanksgiving. Our menus are set, our plans have been made, and I just can’t wait.
With so much preparation required for such a meal, I love making as many things in advance as possible. The easiest one? Cranberry sauce. Cranberry sauce is my second favorite Thanksgiving mea...
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2015 Chocolate Fest in Photos
by Caputo's Online on
Each year, one craft chocolate maker is the featured guest. Utah’s best and brightest chefs incorporate this chocolate into one dish. Some highlight the chocolate’s sweet side, but many decide to show off chocolate’s affinity for savory.
Chefs are central to the event, but aren’t the only ones to demonstrate cacao based creativity at Caputo’s Chocolate Festival. Bartenders ...
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Photo Booth Photos from the 4th Annual Chocolate Festival
by Adrianna Pachelli on
The pictures are in! What a wonderful time we had at the 4th Annual Chocolate Festival, featuring Solstice Chocolate. Thanks to Two Paper Horses Photography for their work capturing the moment with their photo booth. Click here or on the photos below to see the full album from the event!
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Ask Matt Caputo: What is the Best Process to Taste Fine Chocolate?
by Matt Caputo on
“Ask Matt Caputo” is an ongoing feature where Matt answers commonly asked questions from the market. In conjunction with Chocolate Week, he discusses how to taste chocolate like a pro and the one key component: focus.
Q: What is the Best Process to Taste Fine Chocolate?
A: I think most “experts” put so much emphasis on the methodology that it can suck the fun right out of...
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The Menu for Chocolate Fest Featuring Solstice Chocolate
by Adrianna Pachelli on
We can’t wait till the actual Chocolate Festival for you to see what’s on the menu, because it’s just so exciting! So here it is.
At this year’s festival, five chefs and local mixologists will use one of Solstice Chocolate’s five bars to showcase sweet, savory, and boozy applications of the Salt Lake City craft-chocolate maker.
The all-star culinary lineup includes Chef Log...
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Chocolate Week: Adri’s Festive Wasatch Tart
by Adrianna Pachelli on
Caputo’s Chocolate Week comes at the perfect time of year. Our annual Chocolate Fest puts me in the mood and mindset for the holidays and festivities, but it also gives me a chance to start testing desserts for the family dinners and fun holiday parties to come. My family has a knack for making enough food to feed an entire village, but we do our best to minimize the menu a...
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Chocolate Week: A Retrospect of Past Chocolate Festivals
by Adrianna Pachelli on
It’s hard to believe that we’re approaching the 4th annual Caputo’s Chocolate Festival this week. What a delightfully delicious and cacao-filled fun ride it’s been!
Each year, our goal has been to highlight one craft chocolate maker—and this has varied from the best chocolate born abroad and in the United States—while also showcasing the dynamic culinary power of our local ...
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Chocolate Week: A Primer on Solstice Chocolate
by Adrianna Pachelli on
Salt Lake City’s newest bean-to-bar chocolate maker Solstice Chocolate is now part of our award-winning, craft-chocolate selection. Owner Scott Querry has developed his love and passion for chocolate over the last 15 years and is now the company’s sole chocolate maker.
“Using little cocoa butter, but no vanilla, their chocolate is one of the most well executed we have,” sa...
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Caputo’s Solstice Chocolate Mini-Tartlets
by Adrianna Pachelli on
A chocolate and caramel tart created by Caputo’s Executive Chef Marshall Bryant, using one of the best local chocolates Caputo’s carries, this recipe serves a large group (or a smaller, voracious one). For a smaller batch, simply cut amounts in half.
CAPUTO’S SOLSTICE CHOCOLATE MINI TARTLETS
Makes 75 mini-tarts, or few, larger shells
COOKING TIME: 1 HOUR TOTAL
You’ll need:...
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Chocolate Week: Solstice Drinking Chocolate Recipe
by Adrianna Pachelli on
Guys, IT SNOWED! Never mind that it lasted 15 minutes, and never mind that none of it stuck around. The important fact here is that frozen precipitation fell from the sky the first week of November. I began dreaming of all the hot drinks in my near future as I watched those big, fluffy flakes fall gracefully to the wet ground. Cider, hot toddies, tea, but most importantly, ...
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