Dessert Celebration & Coffee Champions

Dan Hotels together with Valrhona, the France premium chocolate manufacturer, hosted a ׂValrhona week׃ which surprised guests prone to sweet tooth!

Chocolate lovers were ecstatic during the ׂValrhona Week at Dan Hotels ׂ, which took place during the last week in March 2016. Danױs deluxe hotels, ׂKing David Jerusalem, Dan Accadia, Dan Tel Aviv and Dan Eilat offered guests a variety of surprising desserts made with quality Valrhona chocolate.

Latin American chocolate cake

Photo: Binyamin Adam

These deluxe hotels prepared a selection of special desserts that included Latin American chocolate cake, Caribbean Promenade, Chocolate Ravioli and ׂMy Black Forest׃. All the desserts were offered at a standard price of 35 shekels per serving.

Renowned VALRHONA Chocolate Pastry Chef, Gianluca Fusto, arrived from France especially for the occasion, held unique workshops for Dan Pastry Chefs, and trained them to work with high-quality chocolate.
Valrhona chocolate is distributed in 60 countries worldwide, and famous pastry chefs use it daily in pastries, confectionery, pralines, desserts etc.

Valrhona chocolate

Dan’s champion coffee maker was elected during the ׂDan Hotels Barista Championship sponsored by Elite coffee.

Twenty-five baristas of the Dan Hotel Chain met up and participated in the Dan Hotels Barista Championship, in which they demonstrated their ability in preparing ׂlatte art׃ espresso and cappuccino in the fastest time and perfect form of presentation.

Amin Azav from the Dan Accadia in Herzliya who took first place, was declared the chainױs ׂbest barista׃ and won a vacation for two in Rome. Danit Hazan from the ׂKing David׃ Jerusalem came in second place, Rachel Krasner from Dan Panorama Eilat came in at third place and Sawyer Ganam from Dan Panorama Haifa came in fourth place.

Raffi Sadeh, General Manager of the Dan Hotel Chain said, ׂThanks to business ties between Dan Hotels and Strauss Coffee, the standard of coffee served at our hotels has improved over the last year and that has been proved in the competition today. These days every coffee shop in Israel, whether big or small , serves a high standard of coffee and therefore it is important that the hotels in Israel serve coffee at the same and even higher standards, just like the Dan Hotel Chain offers today.

First place winner Amin Azav

Photo: Sivan Farag.

Pictured (left to right): Nadav Arens, General Manager of Strauss Coffee, Israel, Raffi Sadeh, CEO Dan Hotels and first place winner Amin Azav.