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Explore the Projet Chocolat line of services customized to any occasion.

Blue-and-white porcelain vintage chocolate pot pouring chocolate into a decorative vintage teacup and saucer on a lace tablecloth

What We Offer

Projet Chocolat’s team offers a range of services to meet the needs of every client. Have something else in mind? Our team will be happy to work with you to create a custom quote.

  • A customized seated tasting paired with wine, coffee, tea, or cheese. Or request a pairing built just for you.

  • Part bar, part classroom. A tasting bar that travels to a home, retail floor, or an event. Where guests taste chocolate, bonbons, and truffles or sip a flight of drinking chocolates.

  • Drawing on archival research across European and Mesoamerican primary sources, Sophia speaks at universities, museums, and festivals on chocolate’s real history, where it diverges sharply from what’s commonly repeated.

  • A collaborative tasting & talk with Mara Papatheodorou, former Bon Appétit editor and taste & traditions expert. Sophia speaks about the chocolate, Mara speaks about the pairing. One table. One shared story.

  • Over 35 years of collecting, paired with a background in chocolate art history, Sophia curates exhibitions across time periods and geographies such as Europe, Asia, and Meseoameica. Curation includes rare books, objects, engravings, and photographs.

Past Tastings & Talks

  • Chcolate historian Sophia Rea holding an orange cacao pod beside a table display about Mesoamerican chocolate.

    House Event

  • Cacao-themed display with a red cacao pod, blue-and-white ceramic vase, silver tray, framed illustration, and book about chocolate in Mesoamerica

    House event

  • Elegant chocolate tasting table set with menus, wine glasses, water glasses, folded napkins, and tasting plates beside wooden chairs

    Farmshop Beverly Hills

  • Group of chocolate tatsing guests enjoying a wine and chocolate at a restaurant table

    Farmshop Beverly Hills

  • Chcolate historian Sophia Rea and Mara Papatheodorou, former Bon Appetit editor pose for a selfie beside a rose-gold balloon and hold a pink “Chocolates with Love” sign.

    Birthday Soho House

  • Hand holding a Sweet & Savory Sisters chocolate tasting menu for Renee’s 18th birthday beside assorted chocolates.

    Birthday Soho House

  • Overhead view of pink white chocolate truffles decorated with red flowers in white paper cups on a lace tablecloth

    Birthday Soho House

  • Chocolate historian Sopgua Rea and Mara Papathedorou, fomer Bon Appetit editor holding large floral arrangements at a 2025 Impact Awards event backdrop featuring Kaiser Permanente, WarnerMedia, Spanx, and GCAPP logos.

    GCAPP Jane Fonda

  • Chocolate historian Sophia Rea serving hot chocolate from a gold dispenser at a luxury fragrance and home goods shop display.

    Diptyque pop-up

  • Blurred fine-dining table with tasting menu cards, wine glasses, utensils, and small plated food samples.

    Private Tasting

  • Museum display case containing antique jewelry, ornate boxes, framed miniatures, and decorative historical artifacts.

    Private Tasting

Museum Projects

Museum of Chocolate exhibition wall displaying framed cocoa-related engravings, lithographs, bookplates, and historical artwork.
Chocolate Museum exhibit with a vintage cacao plantation illustration above two glass display cases containing cacao beans, pods, books, and botanical specimens

French Broad Chocolate, Asheville, NC

Hand-painted wooden religious statue of a crowned mother holding a child, displayed against a dark decorative backdrop.

French Broad Chocolate, NC

Lit museum display case containing an ornate floral painting and antique mano y metate on a pedestal.

Robertson County Museum, TN

Robertson County Museum, Springfield, TN

  • "Projet Chocolat hosted our work Christmas party and what a treat it was. It was something we will never forget. I highly recommend Sophia and her team!"

    Tori

  • "I recently attended a lecture and although I have been in the industry for over 20 years I was delighted by the breadth of knowledge and fresh information. Her eye for design is one of a kind too."

    Anya

  • "Sophia is a master of all things chocolate! You'll never taste chocolate the same again."

    Jenny

  • "This class has been amazing and much more than I expected! Your knowledge and excitement is infectious! I am learning so much about chocolate."

    Christa

Chocolate historian Sophia Rea grinding cacao beans with a metate on a porch

Let’s Work Together

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Client List

GCAPP / Jane Fonda

Frist Art Museum

Dyptique

Captain Planet Foundation

Belmont University

James Madison University