Forget the flowers: Colorado Chocolate Festival happens this weekend with 50,000 samples & Mother’s Day market

If your Mother’s Day plan involves a card from the drugstore and a vague promise to “do something nice,” consider this your intervention…

The Colorado Chocolate Festival — one of the state’s longest-running food festivals, now in its 15th-plus year — returns Saturday (May 9) at a new location, offering more than 50,000 chocolate samples from over 80 vendors, a dedicated Mother’s Day gift market, and a free cake cutting for moms. The timing is not a coincidence: the festival falls on the Saturday before Mother’s Day, making it a built-in excuse to treat the woman who raised you to 20,000 square feet of chocolate heaven.

The event runs 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Delta by Marriott, 10 E. 120th Ave. in Northglenn, at the southeast corner of Interstate 25 and 120th Avenue. VIP ticket holders may enter at 10 a.m…

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