![]() Six months after they opened their first shop in Arrowtown, they put everything on the line to open a lakefront store in Wānaka, he says. “For me, it’s like I keep on changing and adapting things that I’ve tried that are not related necessarily with chocolate or ice cream, but I’m thinking I can make this stuff into a chocolate or ice cream or something similar or take that idea from there.” “I let myself be influenced a lot by customers talking to me, by friends talking to me, by travelling as well,” Gimenez says. ![]() The chocoholic doesn’t just stick to Patagonia-inspired treats but learns from chefs around the world to create new flavours and recipes. “The dream started there but of course it took about three years for us to start materialising the dream.” “This is so similar to Patagonian down south in Argentina that I couldn’t understand why nobody was making chocolates. “Three days after I arrived here, I thought this is a perfect place to open a chocolate shop. Gimenez tells Kathryn Ryan they came to explore the South Island but loved the place so much they never left.
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