Okanagan Hot Chocolate Festival

02/19/2026

Sorry for the delay!

We decided to give it a few more days to allow for more passports to arrive my mail! Tomorrow is the day where we will announce all winners on our stories at high noon!

Thank you for your patience!

02/12/2026

Your Voice! Your vote!
A huge thank you to for sponsoring consistently throughout our 5 years!

Here are the results so far, but a lot can change in the next few days! Make sure you get your votes in before February 16th when we will announce the winner on our stories!

Who will be crowned people’s choice for the 2026 Okanagan Hot Chocolate Festival?! your guess is as good as ours with the most amazing festival yet!

01/15/2026

Before the festival gets going we have some things to tend to!

Passport locations are listen in slide 2. We printed 1000 of them this year! Good luck 🤞 we hope you can acquire one!

Be sure to follow these accounts to be entered to win the Instagram photo contest:
on IG or Foodietownca on facebook






Have fun and tag the hot chocolates in your images or videos. This helps support your favourites!
VOTE for your favourites on our website!
Oh…and the flavour map is now LIVE!
But do expect some changes for the day of as we are accepting submissions until midnight on the 16th.

Jan 17 to Feb 15

01/14/2026

01/14/2026

These are 13 of the (confirmed) new participating locations for our 5th annual Okanagan Hot Chocolate Festival!

More are still entering every day so we expect this group to grow ever further!

Flavour map and full list of participating locations dropping Jan 15th!

takes place from Jan 17 to Feb 15 and is put on by with help from

01/04/2026

Sign up at link in our bio or Okanaganhotchocolatefest.ca

January 17th to February 15th 2026
By
Sponsored by

12/15/2025

We are so excited to announce that our colouring pages are now ready for you to download! Keep your littles (or yourself) preoccupied by colouring our pages and enter to win the gift basket with branded toque, tubing passes and so many more goodies!

This year we have as our local artist! Kelly did an amazing job entwining Big White fun in the mountain with a cup of cocoa to enhance the season!

Download the colouring pages on our home page - just scroll down a little and you’ll find all of our contest info for 2026!


Jan 17 to Feb 15th 2026
Still accepting entries! Visit our website to submit yours!

12/04/2025

We heard you loud and clear!
We are bringing back the people’s choice to vote for 2026.
For our fifth year, we are so excited to celebrate with you all, from the participating locations who make such incredible flavours and creative renditions of the iconic hot chocolate. To the Oso, dedicated hot chocolate enthusiast who endeavour to and try them all each year.

It really is you all who make this festival so special.
Let’s keep supporting local and make this the best year yet.

Don’t forget to remind your favourite locations to sign up before the deadline of January 1, 2026 (but we never deny a late entry).

January 17 to February 15, 2026
The fifth annual Okanagan hot chocolate festival

Put on by

12/02/2025

Did we just drop a sneak peak 🫣
We love our pairings and for 2026 the participants are bringing the flavour!

Get on our newsletter for even more sneak peaks!
Link in bio.

presented by
January 17th to February 15th 2026

12/01/2025

The recipe for the perfect hot chocolate during the really is that simple!

We are all about supporting local and the local talent in this community. Each year we are blown away with the creativity and presentation that our participating locations come up with.

The submissions are coming in daily and we are pumped about 2026!

There is still time to get your submissions in and make sure you remind your favourite cafés that we accept submissions all the way until the week of the festival!

January 17 to February 15th 2026
presented by

09/29/2025

Hard to believe this will be 5th year!

I hope you’ll join us as we seek to make this our best year yet! But we got here thanks to the trust and creativity from the past participating locations.

They are what make it exciting and worth driving the next city over for (and so many of you do!)

🥂 Cheers to 5 years of sipping on the hot chocolate trail!

02/22/2025

From business owners to customers we are floored by all the messages we have received after the 4th annual Okanagan Hot Chocolate Festival has concluded.

We appreciate you all! We weren't sure if anyone else would see the value that we did in putting this festival on. In fact, we still come into some skepticism and push back but it is because of our local businesses and excited patrons that make it a success.

This year was truly beyond. From the creativity and flavours to the effort with signage and social media! The response to our passport program was insane and we promise to make it more accessible next year.

We really want to thank (North America) for their 4 years of unwavering commitment to our little festival! It is very special to us to pair with such an iconic French brand that is a B Corp and sustainable company.

and Tourism Vernon was a huge help in securing more businesses in those areas and helping to spread the word!

Don't forget to follow where (me) and Taryn explore our local and Canadian food scenes showcasing the locally owned much in the same vane as this festival of ours does.

More to come today. The winners have been notified so check your DMs and spam folders! We will announce winners later today on our social.