Now That’s a Sweet Tooth
The spread at Chocolate High Tea
Chocolate has run amok at The Table Bay hotel, a property of Sun International in Cape Town, South Africa. In addition to the new Chocolate High Tea service in the hotel lounge—which offers up white chocolate madeleines, rum-chocolate truffles and black forest trifle—the confection’s also made it onto the menu at the on-site Camelot Spa.
The Chocolate Delight treatment (75 min./approx. $66) combines pure cocoa powder—and all of its antioxidants—with the natural exfoliants in sugar. After a massage with vanilla-scented lotions, various body scrubs and a self-heating cocoa mask—all in the pool-adjacent facility—the guest is led back to the hotel lounge for a glass of cocoa.
(And, if she times her treatment right and hits the lounge between 2:30 and 5:30 p.m., she can also take advantage of all the High Tea’s decadent desserts to top off her service for an additional $20.)
You might not have the facilities to go to such lavish lengths, but since chocolate does provide beneficial antioxidants to the skin and slake certain cravings, this kind of pairing could appeal to your spa guests on multiple levels. Pair a cacao-infused treatment with a cocoa-heavy treat, and watch clients relax under the weight of a double-barreled sugar rush.