The Gastronomic Forum returns to the city of Cristal

The city of La Coruña once again hosts the culinary event of the gastronomic forum for the third time in a row with many prospects for success

The venue for the gastronomic event will be the ExpoCoruña fairgrounds on March 12, 13 and 14.

This relay that took the coastal city of La Coruña back in 2014 by the hand of its Galician namesake, Santiago, has consolidated it as a reference for culinary creation, providing a lot of local gastronomy and above all a magnificent showcase for tourist attraction of the city.

Likewise, the local participation of Galician culinary masters and chefs has increased in this third edition, which already seeks to exceed the objectives of the past calls, with farmhouses of more than 20.000 visitors to the event and dozens of speakers and live show cooking. .

Among other activities, throughout the days of the gastronomic fair, there will be the delivery of recognitions and awards for business and professional careers to chefs, winemakers, room managers, producers and disseminators of Galician culinary culture in the figure the Picadillo Awards, as well as the InnoFórum Awards, to recognize innovation in the field of gastronomy, the product, the packagin and the flavor.

The event will be very well protected by the Fair environment that it exhibits within the Gastronomic Forum, by the hand of more than 500 brands related to restoration and gastronomy, this environment being an excellent showcase to publicize new products and developments, intended for the hospitality channel.

The congress will also invade the streets of the city with an interesting program of urban activities for all audiences within the framework of the program called Forum City, to be carried out together with the collective Coruña Kitchen.

The Gastronomic Forum Event has not only the endorsement and the successful conferences that its previous editions in the Galician city already treasure, but also its origins and formats, which have been developed for years in the Gastronomic Forum of Gerona and in Barcelona with the recent grouping of gastronomic events in the Barcelona Hosting Week, which was held last year in Barcelona.

Gastronomy from inside and outside the Atlantic concentrated in three days

The program of activities of the Gastronomic Forum of La Coruña It will be focused on the new Galician cuisine that will be treated and prepared by Galician chefs and chefs and a wide national representation of chefs representing the entire Spanish geography.

Among the participants of the demonstrations and workshops that will be offered throughout the three days of the event, we highlight the figures of:

• Pepe Solla, from the Solla Restaurant
• Angel León from the Aponiente Restaurant
• Diego Gallegos from Sollo Restaurant
• Luis Veira from the Árbore da Veira Restaurant 
• Iván Domínguez from the Alborada Restaurant
• Javier Olleros from Culler de Pau

Along with the outstanding and well-respected chefs, the sessions will also be conducted and prepared by many promising Galician chefs such as Iago Pazos from the Abastos 2.0 Restaurant, Alberto Lareo from the Manso Restaurant, Fernando Agrasar from the As Garzas Restaurant, Diego López from the La Molinera restaurant, Nacho Rodríguez from Gastromanía or the representatives of the chefs’ groups of Coruña Kitchen y Group Nine.

In the development of the activities of the Forum we will see important news with the realization of some novel monographic sessions, which will occupy the spaces of the afternoon of the event.

Days of meat and fish, and a new space called Agora, which will bring food trades and artisans to the same table, sharing training sessions with the public along with tasting of bread, cheese, charcuterie or cocktails.

The now classic oenological meeting of Wine Forum and the sweet tooth Dulce Forum They will not cease to have their importance within the activities of the gastronomic event that once again brings together the main actors in said events.