Chocolate & Coffee Fest 2025 – Southwest Chocolate and Coffee Fest

Southwest Chocolate & Coffee Fest

The world's largest festival for chocolate, coffee, and gourmet foods.

April 5 & 6, 2025

Expo New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

With over 200 vendors, 6 stages, 250,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor facilities, and attracting over 22,000 attendees, this is the world’s largest festival dedicated to chocolate, coffee, and gourmet foods.

Come discover exquisite chocolates, coffees, teas, candies, baked goods and delectable surprises from small craft businesses from around the world.

Take a deep dive into culinary arts with hands-on classes, tastings, and demonstrations conducted by award winning chefs, chocolatiers, coffee roasters, & baristas.

Enjoy non-stop music from the region’s best bands.

FEATURED

GUEST PRESENTERS 2025

Full Schedule & List of Presenters Posting Soon

Dr. Maricel Presilla

Dr. Maricel Presilla is a cultural historian, chocolate expert, James Beard Award-winning chef, founder of the International Institute of Chocolate and Cacao Tasting and the International Chocolate Awards, author of The New Taste of Chocolate, among other books.

Dylan Siemens

Dylan Siemens has worked in the Specialty Coffee Industry since 2012, becoming a coffee educator in 2014. He is currently the Head of Education at Cafe Imports. From 2015 to 2019, he competed in US Brewers and Barista competitions, winning the US Brewers Cup in 2017. His focus at Cafe Imports is developing an open-source coffee curriculum and copy for marketing and web content. He lives in Arkansas with his wife and two young children.