HOTELYMPIA is the essential hospitality trade show and celebrates it’s 75th anniversary this year. GS Magazine is once again hosting
the Show’s main design Feature - The Designers Gallery Wall. Details of the participating designers are on the following pages.
The Wall is book-ended by the ever popular VIP Champagne Lounge, and the Shows main stage area (this year called Stage 75) - also
organised by the team at GS Magazine.
A full programme of events including design presentations, interviews, panel discussions and celebrity cookery demonstrations will
ensure that Stage 75 will be a constantly busy area. The daily programme appears below, with a few highlighted events that should
prove of particular interest to GS readers...
SUNDAY February 28th Sizzling Science from the Cambridge Medical about the best and the worst of hospitality trends
Research Unit, with special guest presenter. over the past fifty years
10.00am to 5.00pm 2.00pm Meet The Buyer 2.00pm Raymond Blanc, cookery demo on behalf of
The UK Barista Championship. Semi-finals How do Buyers select Suppliers? The industry’s Seafood Choices Alliance.
More than 20 contestants will battle it out leading Group Purchasing Offices come together for Raymond is passionate about this organisation and
on Sunday in a day of intense competition for six the first time to answer your questions. is here to tell us why.
places in Monday’s final. A panel discussion with Gordon Anderson 3.00pm The Designer’s Dream
Expectations will be high as last year’s UK champion, (InterContinental Hotel Group), Nigel Graham How a glorious listed building has embraced
our Inspiration Team Member Gwilym Davies, went (Whitbread plc) and Chris Durant (Beacon architectural modernity to become the most talked
on to win the World Championship in Atlanta! Purchasing). about restaurant of the year, Galvin La Chapel.
A series of lively demonstrations will provide some 3.00pm Be an Olympic Supplier. It’s not too late to Designers Design LSM join forces with renowned
light relief to the drama of this intense competition. benefit from the business opportunities arising from chef and co-owner Chris Galvin to show how this
the 2012 Games. Mike Mulvey, Head of the London modern classic has evolved.
MONDAY March 1st Business Network tells you how.
4.30pm Presentation of the Caterer and Hotelkeeper THURSDAY March 4th
UK Barista Championships – The Finals Equipment & Supplies Excellence Awards 2010. The
Today’s winner will be crowned UK Champion and awards recognise innovation and enterprise in the 10.30am Fashion Show – celebrating 75 years
go on to compete against 55 other nations at the development of professional catering equipment of hospitality fashion with model students from
World Championship held in June. and supplies which make such a vital contribution Westminster College
1pm The current World Barista Champion, Gwilym to successful food service operations. 11.00am An interview with…Cabinet Minister,
Davies, will recreate his winning coffee recipes and Margaret Hodge MBE MP
demonstrate how to make the perfect coffee, every WEDNESDAY March 3rd What else can the Government do to help
time. hospitality? Putting the questions to the UK Tourism
3pm An interview with…Gary Rhodes 10.30am Fashion Show – celebrating 75 years Minister is Bob Cotton OBE, Chief Executive of the
One of Britain’s best loved and most highly of hospitality fashion with model students from British Hospitality Association.
respected chefs joins the Stage at Hotelympia Westminster College 12.00pm Sustainable Hotels
4pm The Skillery. Cookery demonstration with 11.00am The Skillery. A look at ‘the UK’s greenest new-build hotel’ the
Alaska Seafood by Steve Munkley of The Royal Cooking demonstration with Michelin star chef, beautiful and stylish Scarlet Hotel in Cornwall,
Garden Hotel Tom Kerridge presented by award winning designer Stephan
12.00pm The Sustainability Question. Oberwegner of Max Bentheim Design
TUESDAY March 2nd Can operators help to save the planet and save 1.00pm The Skillery. Cooking Demonstration with
money? Bringing together some the industry’s our greatest New Zealand import, celebrity chef
10.30am Fashion Show – celebrating 75 years green experts including Philippe Rossiter, Chief Peter Gordon of The Providores
of hospitality fashion with model students from Executive of the Institute of Hospitality, David Clarke, 2.00pm The Savoy. A world exclusive!
Westminster College Chair of BHA Sustainability Committee and CEO Best Britain’s most iconic hotel will re-open its doors in
11.00am The art of Wine Western, and Dr Rebecca Hawkins of Oxford Brookes 2010 having been closed for more than two years
Gerard Basset, hotelier and one of the world’s University. to undergo a massive renovation. Here, for the
greatest wine experts, explains how to create the 1.00pm The Roux Brothers first time, we get a glimpse of its remarkable and
perfect wine list. A rare chance to see the legendary Roux brothers, sumptuous interiors. Presented by Conrad Smith of
1.00pm The Skillery Cooking Demonstrations… Albert and Michel, together. They will be talking Europe’s leading hotel architects, Reardon Smith.
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