The Chocolate Lodge · at Hazel Mountain, the Burren
Come for the recipes, stay for the stories.
- Seasonal cooking experiences
- A private table of six
- One overnight stay per date
01 · A letter from the kitchen
If you’ve watched Food for Stories, you’ve already stepped inside this kitchen. This is the table where Dermot Whelan, Colleen Nolan, Dara Ennis, Garren Noone and the Polish Ambassador to Ireland sat down to cook, laugh and share their stories. Now, it’s your turn.
This isn’t a cooking class. It isn’t a guided tour. It isn’t a performance.
It’s an invitation to spend a few hours around a kitchen table—cooking, chatting, tasting and connecting with people you may have only just met. In a world that’s becoming increasingly digital, genuine human connection matters more than ever. The Chocolate Lodge was created as a place where food starts conversations, strangers become friends and everyone leaves with a story.
Cook alongside me if you’d like, or simply relax with a coffee, a glass of Prosecco, sparkling water or juice while we chat around the table.
Come for the stories. Stay for the conversation. Leave with memories.
— Kasha
The cooking · a demo you cook along with
cooking side by side
what the season gives us
02 · How the day unfolds
A few hours that feel like calling into a neighbour’s house
Cook together
Share the meal
Explore The Chocolate Lodge
Stroll next door
Finish with a tasting
From the kitchen · a taste of the table
Seasonal food, made by hand and shared warm
Swipe →
A slow autumn stew
Plated at the table
Piping the roulade
Almond-topped crumble
Fresh from the oven
Bean-to-bar, next door
Stay over · a room at the lodge
Stay a while at The Chocolate Lodge
€ 200 per night
- Minimum stay of two nights
- A quiet room at Hazel Mountain, in the Burren
Free weekends
- Sat 25 July
- Sat 8 August
- Sat 22 August
- Sat 5 September
- Sat 3 October
- Sat 31 October
- Sat 28 November
The heart of it is simple.
We don’t need a reason to connect. The truth is, we’re all neighbours in this world. We all have stories to tell, meals to share and something to learn from one another. The Chocolate Lodge is my little reminder of that. A place where strangers gather around a kitchen table, share good food, laugh together and leave feeling a little less like strangers.
I’d love you to pull up a chair — Kasha
04 · Your host
Kasha Maren
Chocolatier. Home cook. Pioneer of Ireland’s chocolate movement, and host of Food for Stories, where guests have gathered around this kitchen table to cook, laugh and share their stories.
Believer that the world needs a little more of what we used to have. Calling into a neighbour’s house. Sharing what you’ve just baked. Pulling up another chair at the table.
- Factory
- Founder of Ireland’s only bean-to-bar chocolate factory and visitor centre
- Show
- Creator and host of Food for Stories
- Award
- Businesswoman of the Year (IMAGE)
- Award
- Food Hero 2025
- Cookbooks
- Three published
- Television
- Has shared the screen with John Torode and Nigella Lawson