Tabléa Chocolate Café recently opened its newest branch at the J Centre Mall in AS Fortuna, Mandaue City—the sixth branch to open in less than 18 months.

With the launching of its first Mandaue location, Tabléa is marking the occasion by rolling out an array of new products, just in time for holiday gift-giving and festive celebrations. Due to customer demand since opening its first outlet, Tabléa will finally introduce its version of the Filipino Christmas classic, Puto Maya, accompanied by fresh mango and Sipping Dark Chocolate. Other new offerings are Hot Chocolate mixes, which will make it easy for one to prepare their favorite Tabléa drinks at home. The mixes will come in five varieties: Sugar-Free Black Chocolate, Mexican Spice, Milk Chocolate, Sipping Dark and Traditional (with Muscovado sugar). The new Tabléa Chocolate Truffles Collection includes delectable tablea-based truffles in Coconut, Chili, Dark Chocolate and Espresso flavors. A special Tabléa bar specially set up for the occasion featured the different concoctions.

In addition to last Christmas’ popular Tabléa Sampler Box, new gift boxes will be available this year including: Tabléa Hot Chocolate Mix Starter Kit, Tabléa Brownie Box and Tabléa Chocolate Chunk Cookie Box. This year, gift-givers can avail of personalized wooden gift boxes with their corporate logo or name etched on the box. Tabléa’s assortment of intense, dark chocolate cakes will make a delightful addition to any party this holiday season.

Tabléa founder Aya Garcia Shlachter enthuses, “We are thrilled to continue our expansion by opening our sixth location in less than 18 months. We are equally excited to open our first Mandaue location and to be a part of the beautiful and modern J Centre Mall.”

Now, more people can enjoy the divine taste of childhood classics like champorado (thick chocolate rice pudding) and sikwate (hot chocolate), along with the cafe’s best sellers such as the Chocolate Con Churros, Tabléa Ensaymada, Tabléa layer cake, silvanas and its signature chocolate-covered cacao beans.

Tabléa Chocolate Café, inspired by tradition and perfected by passion, was created to celebrate and reintroduce a long-standing Filipino pastime of drinking “sikwate” or tablea. Tabléas, or tableyas, are pure cacao beans that are dried, roasted, ground and then formed into tablets traditionally used in the Philippines to make hot chocolate. Tabléa seeks to continue this Filipino tradition, while at the same time bring it to a whole new level by creating and providing inventive and high-quality chocolate drinks and desserts.

The brand also supports the local cacao growing industry by promoting to its patrons that Philippine made products are not only equal to imports but also provide economic and social benefits for the country. It currently sells and uses four varieties of Philippine Tabléa from Argao (Cebu), Jimalalud (Negros Oriental), San Isidro (Davao) and Tagbilaran (Bohol).

Tabléa Chocolate Café is now located in six locations in Cebu- Robinsons Cybergate, SM City Northwing, Ayala Center Cebu, Banilad Town Centre, J.Y. Square and now J Centre Mall. It is open from Mondays to Sundays from 10:00AM to 9:00PM. For more on Tabléa’s luscious creations, check out www.tablea.com.ph or their Facebook: Tabléa Chocoloate Café.