You’re en route to a meeting in Carbondale with just enough time to grab a hot beverage to go. Since you could have had drip coffee at home, you decide on a simple latte. Where should you go? According to The Sopris Sun’s latest blind taste test, you might want to consider Pollinator Chocolate’s Cocoa […]
Pollinator Chocolate
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Cacao price surge, a bitter taste for chocolatiers
As the calendar drifts into the dog days of summer, business has slowed down for Carbondale-based Pollinator Chocolate. Pollinator Chocolate founder Mark Burrows has been staying afloat selling wholesale to restaurants and hotels in the Valley and beyond, plus keeping busy selling coffee to loyal clientele at the Cocoa Club on Highway 133. All the […]
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The Queen Bees make some buzz at Steve’s
The Queen Bees, an all-female bluegrass folk group local to the Roaring Fork Valley, will perform at Steve’s Guitars on Oct. 6 during First Friday as part of a fundraiser to support pollinators. This event, titled “The Pollen Party,” is being hosted in collaboration with The Cocoa Club, which will provide Pollinator Chocolate gift bags […]
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Tanzanian Tooth Fairy teams up with The Cocoa Club
Annie Zancanella has been providing free quality dental care to extremely remote tribal communities outside Arusha, Tanzania for the past six years, now going on seven. For six months at a time, she will fly with a medical team to distant villages where she teaches dental hygiene and shares her dentistry knowledge, while treating mild […]
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Carbondale gets a cozy chocolate lounge and café
In 2019, Carbondale’s master of many trades, Mark Burrows, began his chocolate-making career with Pollinator Chocolate. Since then, Pollinator has become the go-to for high-quality, single-source, small-batch chocolate bars, truffles and bonbons in the Roaring Fork Valley. Burrows is now dipping into a highly-anticipated business venture with the opening of the aptly-named Cocoa Club. This […]
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The Chocolate Chef
Mark Burrows is spending most of his time in the kitchen these days and it’s beginning to pay off. He quickly outgrew his kitchen at home (this page), and now practically lives in his commercial kitchen in Willits (right page) where he makes chocolate —and not just any chocolate. He crafts one-of-a-kind chocolates using cacao […]