World’s Largest Chocolate Fountain, a Sin City Delight
So in a previous post, I mentioned Jean Phillippe Patisserie in Las Vegas as a great place to get hot chocolate (From a USA Today review, ring a bell?). That’s all well, and great… but what I didn’t mention was that it is also the home of the world’s largest chocolate fountain. Yes, yes, I know, it’s always the little details that I forget.
Bellagio webpage described the Patisserie as “A mesmerizing fountain of cascading liquid chocolate awaits you at the Jean-Philippe Patisserie. Delight the imagination as well as the appetite, with an incredible selection of sweet and savory items including chocolates, cookies, cakes, crepes, salads, sandwiches and much more.”
Can you say TOTALLY Las Vegas? Designed by award-winning Executive Pastry Chef Jean-Philippe Maury and Norwood and Antonia Oliver Design Associates, Inc., the fountain took a year and a half in planning and design. The result is a genius work of kinetic sculpture and a daring feat of engineering. Standing 27-feet tall, the masterpiece circulates nearly two tons of melted dark, milk and white chocolate at a rate of 120 quarts per minute. (Did I say TWO TONS? Yes, I did.) Now if that isn’t a draw for a small little chocolate shop like Tweet Sweet, I don’t think anything would get people in the door.
To read more about the fountain, visit the Press Release on the Bellagio’s website. For more photos, head on over to this link on the eGullet Society’s message board.