Chicago's Only Farm-to-Cup Drinking Chocolate Ritual Lab

A 90-minute, after-hours factory experience in Wicker Park where you taste Nicaragua, learn the ritual, and leave with your own custom 12 oz blend.

What You'll Experience:

• Welcome ritual: Start with a cacao husk tea you've almost certainly never tried before, brewed from the part of the cacao fruit most of the world throws away.
• Mini factory tour & origin story: Walk through our roastery and chocolate lab as we show you how most chocolate is made (child labor, deforestation, commodity prices) and how our Nicaragua supply chain flips that script.
• Guided tasting with flavor wheel: Taste four Oro chocolates (Tuma 78%, Opayo 78%, 78% blend, and 88%) with a printed cacao flavor wheel and scoring card so you can finally put words to what you taste.
• Drinking chocolate ritual workshop: Learn the Oro ritual as we prepare one communal pot of drinking chocolate for everyone to taste together. Then build your own 12 oz custom blend bag with chef-guided flavor combos to take home and replay the ritual in your own kitchen.

What You Take Home:

• 1 × 12 oz custom drinking chocolate ritual bag (with your name)
• 1 × Oro bar or bark gift
• Your completed cacao flavor wheel & scoring card
• A simple ritual / recipe card so you can recreate the experience at home

Founding Lab Details:

• Duration: ~90 minutes
• Group size: Limited to 10 guests
• When: Saturday evenings at 7:30PM
• Location: Oro (Wicker Park, Chicago)
• Founding Lab price: $137 per guest (limited first runs before price goes up)

Who It's For:

Conscious food lovers, date-night planners, and "friend-who-finds-cool-things" types who are bored of the same bars and dinners and want a night that's nerdy, delicious, and actually changes how they drink chocolate at home.

Reserve your seat – only 10 spots per lab and Founding Lab pricing is limited.