Your Guide to the 2026 Squamish Hot Chocolate Festival
Posted on: January 29, 2026
They say that chocolate is happiness that you can eat – but what about if you drink it?
From February 5 - 25, 2026, get ready to dive deep into the tantalizing world of delicious hot chocolate once again at the 6th Annual Squamish Hot Chocolate Festival.
Get ready to dive mouth-first into the magical world of hot chocolate! The Squamish Hot Chocolate Festival is back and bringing a whole new wave of delicious creations. Our talented local makers are stirring up flavours that will surprise your taste buds and warm your soul. Winter never tasted so good!
TIPS TO DO IT RIGHT:
- Make a plan
- Pace it out
- Share with friends
- Post on social!
We have more participants than ever this year - 33 in total - and you've got exactly 21 days to try them all.
HOT CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL PASSPORT:
Pick up your collectible limited addition Hot Chocolate Festival Passport at the Squamish Adventure Centre. Limited number available OR download a digital passport from our website or Instagram. (COMING SOON)
If you collect 10 or more stamps and submit your tasting passport*, you're name will be entered to win a sweet paddleboard!
Be sure to follow @SquamishHotChocolateFestival and tag us in your posts.
*Please submit your tasting passports at the Squamish Adventure Centre. Digital passports can be submitted via DM to the @SquamishHotChocolateFestival Instagram account.
SOUTH SQUAMISH:
Chatterbox Café at the Britannia Mine Museum:
Heavy Hauler Hot Chocolate: A rich, comforting drink inspired by the newest giant on site, the CAT 793 mining truck, which has officially arrived at Britannia Mine Museum. A classic milk hot chocolate topped with a generous swirl of whipped cream and served with a Heavy Hauler mini chocolate bar.
Price: $7.93
Size: 16oz.
*Hot Chocolate can be made with non-dairy milk alternatives.
COMING SOON.
The Pick Me Up - Tiramisu Cocoa: Imagine your favourite dessert, but in hot chocolate form! Outbound Station has done it again with their creamy tiramisu flavoured hot chocolate topped with a tiramisu cake.
Price: $8
Size: 12oz
*Alternative milks can be used to accomodate dietary requirements
COMING SOON.
Panic! At The Miso: A black-as-your-soul, charcoal infused, hot chocolate with miso and smoked rosemary. It includes everything the aging, Millennial body needs while proving "It's not just a phase!". Made with Charcoal infused hot chocolate with miso and smoked rosemary
Price $6.75
Size 12oz
*Gluten free and vegan options available
Summit Lodge at the Sea to Sky Gondola:
Classic Creamy Cocoa: House-made Italian style creamy hot cocoa, made with rich dark chocolate and sea salt topped with Oreo crumble, chocolate whipped cream and a cinnamon sugar churro.
Price $7.50
Size 8oz
Can be made vegan with coco whipped cream or GF removing the churro
Canyon Campfire Hot Chocolate: Squamish Canyon made sure to come up with a creation that warms you up after exploring their board walk. Classic, yet delicious, the Canyon Campfire Hot Chocolate is the perfect post walk treat. Made with rich hot chocolate with dairy base topped with toasted meringue rim and pretzel “log” fire.
Price $9.00
Size 12 oz
Only available in the Forest Lounge. Day ticket or annual pass required for access.
Ruby Core Hot Chocolate: Silky ruby chocolate milk with natural berry notes finished with a marshmallow rim, torched until lightly toasted. Crowned with shimmering gold flakes for prosperity and good fortune. Served with a handmade sweet soup dumpling filled with molten ruby chocolate and chewy mochi, a playful nod to reunion and abundance.
Price: $10
Size: 12oz
*Oat milk substitute will be available. However the chocolate chips contains dairy.
DOWNTOWN SQUAMISH
Salted Skoreo Hot Chocolate: For it's 5th year of participating in the Squamish Hot Chocoalte Festival, Alice & Brohm is bringing back a fan favourite! Made with rich blend of premium milk and dark chocolate melted right into the milk with whip cream and topped with salty oreo crumbs and caramel drizzle. Served with a bite–sized Salted Skoreo ice cream cone, rimmed with salted caramel and those salty oreo crumbs.
Prize: $8.50
Size: 8oz
*dairy-light option available using oat milk, coconut whip
*hot chocolate and ice cream contains gluten and nuts
COMING SOON.
Fox in the Brambles: House-made blackberry earl grey white hot chocolate topped with an earl grey marshmallow and served with a mini cake doughnut, glazed with earl grey and drizzled with blackberry drizzle.
Price and Size
$7.50 - 8oz
$9 - 12oz
OR
Black Forest Fox in the Brambles: House-made vegan dark chocolate, cherry & kirsch hot chocolate made with oat milk served with a mini vegan chocolate cake doughnut glazed with cherry glaze and vegan buttercream.
Price and Size
$8.50 - 8oz
$10.50 - 12oz
*The Black Forest Fox in the Brambles is a Vegan creation.
COMING SOON.
COMING SOON.
Golden Hazelnut Cacao: This Ferrero-inspired hot chocolate is naturally sweetened and feels deeply luxurious. This one is refined-sugar free, yet just as good as the original thing! Made with dark chocolate blended with roasted hazelnut, cacao and maple. Topped with edible gold, hazelnut praline dust and optional coconut chocolate whipped cream.
Price $6.95
Size 12oz
*Vegan options available
COMING SOON.
Coconut Cloud Hot Chocolate: Put sugar, spice, and everything nice together, and the Coconut Cloud Hot Chocolate from Tacofino is exactly what you get. Made with cinnamon, clove and ginger hot chocolate topped with a coconut marshmallow cloud and mini diablo cookie.
BS Hot Chocolate: Can you imagine a better way to finish a downtown stroll than at the Broken Seal for a hot chocolate with a view? Miso & sesame hot chocolate topped with coconut whipped cream, pirouline & baby marshmallows.
Price $8.50
Size 6oz
This hot chocolate is vegan friendly, gluten free & nut free
Price $6.50
COMING SOON.
CENTRAL SQUAMISH
Aloha, Winter: Close your eyes as you take a sip, and dream yourself up on a beach in Hawaii. This hot chocolate is made with rich dark and milk coconut and almond hot chocolate topped with toasted coconut and chocolate drizzled pineapple. Paired with a pineapple passion flakie: light and fluffy puff pastry with creamy coconut whipped rum flavored filling.
Price and size:
12oz $12
16oz $14
*This hot chocolate can be madevegan but not gluten free (hot chocolate is GF, treat is not).
Ground Up Climbing Centre Cafe:
COMING SOON.
When Italian Chocolate Meets Pistachio: This hot chocolate tastes like travelling the world, without ever having to board a plane. The perfect balance of the rich taste of Europe, with a hint of the East. Made with silken Italian-style hot chocolate crowned with softly whipped cream, pistachio–raspberry gelato, golden kadayfi strands, and crushed pistachio.
*Note that this Hot Chocolate can not be made vegan or gluten free.
COMING SOON.
Salted Toffee Melt: Imagine the fan favourite 'Caramel sea salt chocolate bar' but as a Hot Chocolate. Ridehub's creation hits the right spot as you sip on this comforting creation. Made with creamy hot chocolate blended with salted toffee. Topped with whipped cream, caramel drizzle and sea salt and comes with a baked treat.
Price $7.50
Size 12 oz
Make it mocha (+espresso) for an additional $1.00
*The milk can be substituted for a vegan option for $1, and the hot chocolate itself is gluten free without the baked treat.
Routes Eatery @ Cap U:
COMING SOON.
Tall Tree is bringing two signature winter treats together by bringing you the Pecan Pie Hot Chocolate. There is both a dairy as well as vegan option!
Tall Tree Pecan Pie Hot Chocolate: Made with chocolate, caramel, whip cream, and pecan praline served with a pecan pie bar.
Price $8.50
Vegan Pecan Pie Hot Chocolate: Made with vegan caramel and pecan praline. Available with oat milk.
Price $7.00 (without bar)
No vegan option for the bar.
NORTH SQUAMISH
Neapolitan Dynamite: This year, Bean & Co is turning an ice cream favourite into hot chocolate, warming you up on a brisk winter day instead of cooling you down on a hot summer day. Chocolate ganache, white chocolate vanilla hot chocolate with strawberry foam and strawberry waffle cookie garnish.
Price: 6.95
Size: 12oz
Dulce Cielo: Fergie's has created an Aztec-inspired spiced hot chocolate made from real, melted chocolate—rich, authentic, and crowned with a silky horchata whip. Designed to warm you up as if you are in the sun in Mexico!
Price - $7.5
*Note that this creation contains Dairy.
While this Hot Chocolate is created as the perfect non-alcoholic treat, if you are feeling up for it, the team recommends adding Kahlua.
The Chief Hot Chocolate: Inspired by FILI's best selling smoothie "The Chief", FILI has reimagined it into a hot chocolate. They recommend pairing The Chief Hot Chocolate with a mat-pilates class in FILI Studio! Made with peanut butter and almond milk. Topped with whipped cream (dairy) and an exclusive bagel chip. The chip adds delicious crunch to pair with the creamy peanutty hot chocolate.
Price $7.00
Size 12oz
COMING SOON.
Toffee Trails Hot Chocolate: This newest kid on the block made sure to create a hot chocolate to remember. The Toffee Trails Hot Chocolate is a twist of the classic hot chocolate, and is made with organic hot chocolate and whipped cream. Made with velvety dark hot chocolate, whipped cream and crunchy RockCoast Salted Toffee bark bits
Price $6
Size 12oz
*This item is gluten free.
COMING SOON.
Cramel Cross-Country Crunch Hot Chocolate: What better than a sweet hot chocolate after a day of cross country skiing at the Olympic Park? The daylodge came up with the perfect blend of creamy, chocolatey, and caramel goodness to warm you up from the first sip to the last. Made with: rich, velvety hot chocolate and piled high with whipped cream. Sprinkled with chocolate shaving, and topped with a crunchy Twix bar.
Price: $5.75
Size: 12oz
Zephyr at the Brackendale Art Gallery:
Ultimate PB & J Hot Chocolate: Every ingredient of this hot chocolate is made in house at Zephyr cafe, including the dark chocolate sauce used in the hot chocolate to the cookie dough in the gelato. Made with rich dark hot chocolate milk and topped with fresh whipped cream, strawberry jam, peanut butter swirl and dark chocolate sprinkles. Served with a side of Zephyr's oatmeal peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough gelato.
Price: $6 and up
Sizes: 12 oz and16 oz
*Choice of milk alternatives available. Can sub coconut whip cream.
Level up your chocolate intake and see what that makes you:
1-5 Hot Chocolates: Crazy for Cocoa
6-14 Hot Chocolates: Chocolate Monster
15-22 Hot Chocolates: King/Queen of the Chocolate Kingdom
Tick off 10 or more drinks off your Squamish Hot Chocolate Festival Tasting Passport and you could win the GRAND PRIZE!
Once you've completed all your tastings, drop off your passport to the Squamish Adventure Centre OR DM the @Squamishhotchocolatefestival account with your completed screenshot.
You're name will be entered to win a sweet paddleboard.
Decadent, comforting, and unapologetically indulgent, finished with whipped cream or frothed to perfection, we can’t wait to taste each location's dreamy confectionary concoctions.
