Put down the snack-size Snickers. We realize that cheap chocolate is hard to resist this time of year, but in honor of National Chocolate Day on Sunday (Oct. 28), you can do better. Below are six suggestions for honoring the best thing man ever made.

Tour Theo Chocolate and sample seasonal confections.
The Fremont chocolate factory is open for tours at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Sundays. While you're there, sample Theo's fall confections ($1.85 per piece). Coconut Curry blends curry powder with milk chocolate ganache and a touch of crunchy toasted coconut. Chipotle Spice gets its heat from chipotle and ancho chiles. Cardamom Caramel is topped with cherry-smoked almonds, and the dark chocolate ganache of Hot Ceylon Cinnamon is spiked with a dash of cayenne pepper.

Raise a glass to the cocoa bean at Tini Bigs Lounge.
The Queen Anne lounge features a few chocolate-spiked martinis, but our favorite is the Burning Man-tini ($9.75), a blistering blend of mazama chili pepper vodka and chocolate liqueur, topped with sweetened cream. Visit between 4 and 6 p.m., when happy hour brings $4 snacks.

Visit the Chocolate Box for free samples.
The Pike Place Market shop offers free tastes of something delicious nearly every day, but usually those freebies are on hand for just an hour or two. In honor of National Chocolate Day, the store will give out complimentary treats all day long, from local artisan chocolatiers such as Oh! Chocolate, Fiori and Chocolat Vitale, whose rich, creamy sipping chocolate is nothing short of heavenly.

Have dessert on Palisade.
With the purchase of a dinner entrée, the Polynesian-tinged Magnolia restaurant will pamper each guest Oct. 28 with a free serving of Chocolate Kona Coffee Macadamia Nut Opera Cake -- almond chocolate cake layered with Kona coffee butter cream and chocolate ganache, and topped with chocolate macadamia opera glaze. The restaurant has a killer water view and a koi pond, but with mouth-watering chocolate cake in front of you, who cares?

Drink hot chocolate, then bathe in it.
Hike to the top of Queen Anne Hill for El Diablo Coffee Company's delicious, cinnamony Mexican hot chocolate. When the buzz wears off, draw a hot bath and add a liberal dose of Melt ($20), a milk-chocolate bath from local company Sweet Beauty. This is as close as you can legally get to jumping into one of Theo's vats of liquid chocolate.

Groove to Hot Chocolate and other sexy '70s bands at War Room.
Whether you believe in miracles or not, you can't deny the disco lure of Hot Chocolate's enormously dance-worthy 1975 hit "You Sexy Thing." Boogie -- or Hustle -- to that and other 1970s gems at the Capitol Hill bar's Sunday-night disco extravaganza, "Slow Ride." Doors open at 7 p.m.; well drinks are $3 and Miller High Lifes are $2 all night long.

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