GastronomiX PRO 2017 will be the only professional culinary forum in the country to be held this year. It will organized for the second consecutive year in the framework of the SIHRE (specialized exhibition for hotel, restaurant, catering and spa equipment) at Inter Expo Center on 9 and 10 November 2017 at 10:00. AVA-M and METRO Bulgaria are the general sponsors of the event .
On the first day of GastronomiX – November 8 at 16.00, will be held the official opening and press conference – the organizers from the Bulgarian Association of Professional Chefs and Gourmet
Publishing will present GastronomiX PRO and other events of the forum.
GastronomiX PRO is a culinary forum for professionals, where4 talented and well-established Bulgarian and world authorities in professional kitchen and restaurant-keeping are transferring their knowledge and skills to their younger colleagues. It includes master classes of world-known and Bulgarian chefs and experts ,as well as presentations with cooking demonstration on various topics. The mastering chefs and restaurant -keepers have the chance to draw on ideas and experience from well-recognized professionals.
The forum was created with the thought of the future of the culinary and restaurant-keeping business in our country – the main goal is to enable chefs and restaurant-keepers to get ideas, new knowledge, skills and inspiration to master higher levels of the profession.
Speakers from Bulgaria and abroad
The foreign speakers in this year’s edition will be Jan Smink from the three-star restaurant Librije, who along with his colleague Mark Plake will present the taste of the Netherlands with the help of video and preparation of 12 different bites, and Dr. John Dunning – former training manager of Gordon Ramsey Holdings and a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, a guest at the HRC Culinary Academy. He will speak on “Restaurants and Services – A retrospective and Future Trends”.
Among the lecturers there will the names of well-known Bulgarian chefs. Georgi Boikovski from “Cosmos” will present “New Bulgarian cuisine with the old Bulgarian products”; Milen Panev, Milen Zlatev and Vladimir Todorov will focus on interesting fine dining techniques. Master confectioners Radi Stambolov and Borislav Ekzarhov chose to present Chocolate – a part of their remarkable avant-garde project Transformations, and Svetozar Georgiev from Auberge d’Hermance in Geneva (1 Michelin star) will showcase ideas and techniques for preparing different dishes and menu courses from one and the same seasonal products. Chef Ivaylo Dimitrov from Opium Restaurant in Rousse will introduce the audience to the peculiarities of the Danube regional cuisine.
“Magical” demos
Some of our most successful and experienced professionals will make interesting demonstrations in the showroom of Hall 6 at Inter Expo Center. Dimo Dimov will create magic with his Delicieux foie gras and duck delicacies, Peter Nikolov is going to devote himself to Japanese cuisine with the quality products of Kikkoman ,while Borislav Asenov has the task of showing the advantages of Robusta meat curing machines.
Access to all events from GASTRONOMIX 2017 is free for SIHRE visitors and you can register online or request the organizers’ invitation to have admission to Inter Expo Center during the exhibition.
GASTRONOMIX PRO 2017 PROGRAM
November 9, Thursday
Master classes
10.30 – 12.00 Dr. John Dunning:
Restaurants and Services – Retrospective and Future Trends
12.30 – 14.30 Chef Georgi Boikovski:
New Bulgarian cuisine with old Bulgarian products
14.30 – 16.00 Chef Svetozar Georgiev:
Ideas and techniques for different dishes and course in the menu from one and the same seasonal products
November 10, Friday GastronomiX PRO
Master classes
Master classes
10.30 – 12.00 Jan Smink and Mark Plake:
The taste of Holland in twelve bites
12.30 – 14.00 Ivailo Dimitrov:
Author’s version of authentic dishes from the Danube regional cuisine
14.30 – 16.00 Milen Panev, Milen Zlatev and Vladimir Todorov:
Fine Dining Techniques
16.30 – 18.00 Radi Stambolov and Bobby Ekzarhov:
Transformations: chocolate
Product demonstrations
11.30 – 12.30 Delicieux, foie gras and duck delicacies – Dimo Dimov
13.30 – 14.30 Kikkoman, VK Komersial – Peter Nikolov
15.30 – 16.30 Robusta, meat curing machines & ViVenda – Borislav Asenov
