The International Fair for quality food and beverages is presented this year as a benchmark for product and culinary creation in the national gastronomic scene.
El Gourmet Lounge, celebrates its XXIX edition achieving an indisputable leadership in the European continent, maintaining its exclusivity in terms of the contents presented, bringing together more than 1.000 exhibitors, who present and display more than 30.000 products.
Its figures are already indisputable, 30 editions of the event are about to be held, and the participation of nearly 80.000 visitors and 1.200 accredited media professionals certify this.
In this new edition of 2015, again the raw material to make will be the main protagonist of the exhibition, which will be present at the Juan Carlos I Fairgrounds (IFEMA) on April 13,14,15, 16, XNUMX and XNUMX.
With the motto “products on stage”, the show is the largest European event on delicatessen products and the best world showcase for Premium Range food and beverages.
His professional and professional vision makes the best firms and producing or trading companies in the sector choose to offer their innovations in the more than 18.500 m2 of exhibition space.
What can we see in this edition of the Salón de Gourmets?
Its exhibition area takes us into the spectacular world of food and beverage products, showing their news and elaborations in live sessions and show cookings that together with the demonstrations of the bartenders, will make us enjoy an unprecedented gastronomic encounter.
Professional buyers who are in some way linked to gastronomy, hospitality and Horeca distribution, will be able to go to the very origin of the elaboration and production to know and establish commercial relationships with the creators of the same.
In this edition , Portugal will be the guest of honor, that the organizing committee of the event, chaired since 2006 by SSMM D. Juan Carlos I, has decided to host at the Fair.
The neighboring country will put its best agri-food products such as sheep, beef and pork meat, canned fish and shellfish, etc., which together with the best broths of its different denominations will give a varied color and flavor to the exhibition space.
The exquisite will be present at the Workshop of the Senses
This gastronomic space shares the bill with the Hall and the Fair, and its main mission is to bring consumers and lovers of good cuisine closer to the entire gourmet and delicatessen universe in a single appointment.
Since its first edition in 1999, it continues to surprise each year with the great imagination and creativity of its participants.
Creation workshops and demonstrations that bring the world of bread, oil, cheese, wine, craft beer, etc. closer together. to all visitors in the exclusive environment of the Plaza de los Senses.
In it and through the spaces set up for this purpose, the new delicatessen products that are used or presented and offered by the exhibitors of the Fair can be purchased.
In its 3.000 m2 of exhibition and production, the thematic areas dedicated to:
- Chocolate, cakes, artisan pastries and jams in the GourmetSweet.
- La Spanish Oil Interprofessional will once again be one of the exponents with the greatest attention from the visiting public of the Workshop of the Senses, showing the enormous potential presented by the use in the gastronomic creation of the extra virgin olive oil. (AOVE).
- The staging of the meat sector will be completed by the sessions of Nutrition and Gastronomy by National White Coat Pig Symposium.
- Gourmet Cheeses It will be a new sensory experience within the recommendations of the cheese masters who will present the best dairy products paired with sweet jams, nuts and wine, as a prelude to the celebration of the Championship of the Best Cheeses of Spainto. In parallel, the I Contest to the “Best Cheese Board 2015“.
- La Vie en Rose, will be the space dedicated to rosé wine and pink sparkling wines, which in recent years have been experiencing a very important growth and demand from consumers, well focused by their producers with really interesting products and with a long history in the market. gastronomic panorama.
- The World Kitchens, will be the days dedicated to traveling with the senses, where one will try to move to distant gastronomic destinations without leaving Madrid, through the culinary creations of the countries of the world through the perception of them by the producers of the event.
Another interesting trend, very booming in recent months and great inspiration from brands and restaurants to offer their food to everyone and anywhere is Street food, which premieres in this edition a Food Trucks Area, where the mobile kitchens of the most exotic and representative trucks, caravans or gastronomic vans, will serve and offer the visitor their specialties and snacks.
Food equipment will have its space in the Gourmet Equip
It is an exclusive exhibition area, where participating companies and professional visitors to the event will be able to contact and generate commercial actions on the products on display.
During the exhibition days, specific activities will be carried out for the presentation and demonstration of machinery, utensils and tools for cooking and culinary creation, without forgetting the room service.
The hospitality establishments, hotels, cooking schools and other places of preparation and gastronomic service, are summoned to this event that will surely provide an environment of trend and modernity that will make and discover new opportunities for renewal to the attendees.
You can see all the complete information about the Show and its variants as well as the detailed programs with dates and times of the workshops and demonstrations on the website of the Gourmets Show that we link to you below, so as not to lose any detail of such a unique gastronomic event that It is held annually in the capital of Spain.