York Cocoa Works
York, North Yorkshire
A bean-to-bar chocolate maker on Castlegate with its own chocolate café. Children can make a chocolate lollipop at a café table while the family has a drink or a snack, or the whole family can book the longer bar-making workshop together.
For the children
Chocolate lollipop making (about 15 minutes): pour tempered milk chocolate into a mould, add toppings, then let it set in the chocolate fridge and take it home. The chocolate bar workshop (about 1 hour 10 minutes plus setting time) covers where cocoa comes from, tasting and tempering, then each person moulds and decorates a 150g bar.
- Supervised
- No — children stay with you
- Ages
- All ages. Under-5s need an adult's help with lollipops; under-12s must be with a participating adult in the bar workshop
- When
- Experiences run daily (booking needed); the venue opens 9am–5pm daily
- Price
- Lollipop £6.50 each. Bar workshop: child £21.50, adult £26.50, parent & child £46.50, family £93, ages 5 and under free when sharing a bar with a parent
- Booking
- Book online (FareHarbor) from the experience pages; arrive 5–10 minutes early at the retail desk
Researched by Tumble in October 2026 from each restaurant's own website (or the website of the company running its kids' club). Tumble doesn't take these bookings. Kids' clubs, times and prices change and some need booking ahead, so check with the restaurant before you go. Where we don't give a price, age range or time, it means the restaurant doesn't publish one.