{"id":1445,"date":"2016-06-20T14:17:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T11:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:29:08","slug":"dessert-celebration-coffee-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/?p=1445","title":{"rendered":"Dessert Celebration &#038; Coffee Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dan Hotels together with Valrhona, the France premium chocolate manufacturer, hosted a \u05c2Valrhona week\u05c3 which surprised guests prone to sweet tooth!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chocolate lovers were ecstatic during the \u05c2Valrhona Week at Dan Hotels \u05c2, which took place during the last week in March 2016. Dan\u05f1s deluxe hotels, \u05c2<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/JerusalemHotels\/KingDavidJerusalemHotel\/\">King David Jerusalem<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/TelAvivHotels\/DanAccadiaHerzliyaHotel\">Dan Accadia<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/TelAvivHotels\/DanTelAvivHotel\/\">Dan Tel Aviv<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/EilatHotels\/DanEilatHotel\/\">Dan Eilat<\/a><\/strong> offered guests a variety of surprising desserts made with quality Valrhona chocolate.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1446\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/header5.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1446\" class=\"wp-image-1446 size-full\" title=\"Latin American chocolate cake\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/header5.jpg\" alt=\"Latin American chocolate cake\" width=\"760\" height=\"500\" data-id=\"1446\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Latin American chocolate cake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Photo: Binyamin Adam<\/p>\n<p>These deluxe hotels prepared a selection of special desserts that included Latin American chocolate cake, Caribbean Promenade, Chocolate Ravioli and \u05c2My Black Forest\u05c3. All the desserts were offered at a standard price of 35 shekels per serving.<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nValrhona chocolate is distributed in 60 countries worldwide, and famous pastry chefs use it daily in pastries, confectionery, pralines, desserts etc.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1447\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/double1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-1\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1447\" class=\"wp-image-1447 size-full\" title=\"Valrhona chocolate\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/double1.jpg\" alt=\"Valrhona chocolate\" width=\"760\" height=\"500\" data-id=\"1447\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valrhona chocolate<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Dan&#8217;s champion coffee maker was elected during the \u05c2Dan Hotels Barista Championship sponsored by Elite coffee.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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 \u05c2latte art\u05c3 espresso and cappuccino in the fastest time and perfect form of presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Amin Azav from the Dan Accadia in Herzliya who took first place, was declared the chain\u05f1s \u05c2best barista\u05c3 and won a vacation for two in Rome. Danit Hazan from the \u05c2King David\u05c3 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.<\/p>\n<p>Raffi Sadeh, General Manager of the Dan Hotel Chain said, \u05c2Thanks 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.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1448\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/strip5.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-2\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1448\" class=\"wp-image-1448 size-full\" title=\"First place winner Amin Azav\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/strip5.jpg\" alt=\"First place winner Amin Azav\" width=\"760\" height=\"500\" data-id=\"1448\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First place winner Amin Azav<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Photo: Sivan Farag.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured (left to right): Nadav Arens, General Manager of Strauss Coffee, Israel, Raffi Sadeh, CEO Dan Hotels and first place winner Amin Azav.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Hotels together with Valrhona, the France premium chocolate manufacturer, hosted a \u05c2Valrhona week\u05c3 which surprised guests prone to sweet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Valrhona Week at Dan Hotels for Chocolate lovers | Dan Hotels Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chocolate lovers were ecstatic during the Valrhona Week at Dan Hotels, 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