Moore River Chocolate

…a chocolate shop, with so much chocolate, you could swim in it…

 Moore River Holidays will one day become the location that fulfills a pinkie promise that was made over five years ago to our daughter, Isabella.

We are building on a dream of a chocolate café and our passion for this business venture started accidentally when one of our twin girls, Isabella, was diagnosed with a severe peanut allergy at the age of eight.

We were brought up on peanut butters and nuts all throughout our childhood, and to be told that your child could die from something as simple as a peanut was devastating. Every day it felt like we were playing Russian roulette. Isabella hesitated to go to birthday parties, sleepovers or even to play at friends or family member’s houses. With just a trace of the peanut, the exposure could put her life in danger within seconds, because of an anaphylactic reaction to the peanut and Isabella could die.

Since Isabella’s diagnosis, we have been doing what we can to raise awareness about allergies. Isabella’s school dedicates a day during Allergy Awareness Week annually which our school community contribute to overwhelmingly. We call our fundraising event, No Uniform Today, a free dress day for children. The children get to wear free dress for that day and contribute a gold coin donation to raise much-needed funds for allergy awareness and research. Our vision is to continue raising allergy awareness throughout our community and all over the world.


Today, up to six per cent of Australian children develop a food allergy before reaching school age. This equates to more than 65,000 little children! Allergy rates have more than tripled in the past decade and food allergies in Australia have reached an epidemic level.

Like any child, Isabella loves to eat chocolate, but her nut allergy meant she could rarely eat chocolates and sweets. The nut allergy had a detrimental effect on the entire family and our friends. We wanted to give Isabella something encouraging to focus on. So we told her that if she outgrows her nut allergy, one day, we would buy a chocolate shop, with so much chocolate, you could swim in it!

In 2008, Isabella was offered to take the peanut butter challenge at Princess Margaret Hospital with the Immunology Team and we were thrilled when she passed the peanut butter challenge. We were told to keep eating nuts as often as we can and today our home is filled with all the variety of nuts we love to eat.

And, to honour our pledge to Isabella, we are building on that pinkie promise and creating a café called the Moore River Chocolate Company, right here, on the banks of the Moore River.
The chocolate café is the delivery of that pinkie promise and soon we will have something to show our family, friends and community, a place that shows off their devotion to keeping our community allergy aware. We will include a totally nutty range of chocolates, coffee, nuts and sweets.We do hope you will stay with us one day and get pleasure from watching our vision unfold in front of you.

Fulfilling our pinkie promise is a vision that was so far-fetched, so unbelievable yet it came true! Together we plan to create the world’s nuttiest chocolate brand whilst building a community of committed allergy aware nut lovers.

Thank you for being at the growth stage of delivering our pinkie promise.

We welcome your thoughts.

The Chiera Family.

Rona and Cos, Identical looking twins, Isabella & Sophia and their brother Riccardo