Saturday Farmers’ Market Vendor Feature: Solasta Chocolate

This week we are featuring Solasta Chocolate, who are entering their third year at our markets! Solasta Chocolate provides a diverse range of scrumptious chocolates to suit every chocolate lover in the Lower Mainland. We recently had the pleasure of chatting with owner and UBC alumni, Martin Gregorian, to find out more.

How long has Solasta been around? How did you get started?

We have been around since 2016. I started by making chocolates for friends and they loved them so we expanded to farmers markets and now wholesale.

What inspired you to personally start making chocolate?

The endless possibility of flavour combinations and the multiple ways you can use chocolate to create pieces of edible art.

What are the three most important things you think people should know about Solasta

We give a percentage of our sales to the SPCA and Burnaby Family Life.
We have chocolate for everyone including no sugar added and vegan.
We won a international chocolate award.

What inspired the vegan, keto, and sugar free chocolates?

We like to give our customers options. Keto and no sugar added option were our top requests!

How do you go about creating a new chocolate?

Lots of trial and error. I go through about 10 iterations before I come up with a final recipe. I do lots of taste testing as well with customers and get feedback.

Why did you choose to come to the UBC Saturday Market specifically?

I love the atmosphere at UBC Farm. It is so relaxing! The customers are top notch and most importantly I am a UBC alumni!

If you could only have one of your chocolatess for the rest of your life which one would it be?

Milk Chocolate Peanut butter, cookies and sea salt.

Where else can customers find you? And is there anything else you want them to know for this season?

White Rock Farmers Market, Ladner Village Market, New Westminster Farmers Market, Coquitlam Farmers Market, Burnaby Farmers Market and many stores that can be found on our website.The best part of being in the chocolate business is when customers tell me they are in love with our chocolates!