(RE)THINKING THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS

What is worrying restaurateurs? What are the appropriate opening hours? How to overcome the lack of staff? How to make work-life balance possible? What role is Artificial Intelligence playing? What are the new successful restaurant models? How to face the challenge of sustainability?

A powerful activities programme with the proximity between speakers and the public as the strongest point

Live show-cookings, cooking and debate of ideas and recognition to the professionals of the sector.

The three main axes

Catalan cuisine

In the year that Catalonia has been named World Region of Gastronomy, the event will feature masterclasses by leading chefs from renowned restaurants, including Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch and Mateu Casañas from Disfrutar (3* and Best Restaurant in the World according to The World's 50 Best Restaurants).

The transformative power of cooking

The show will analyse innovative proposals and gastronomic models that promote social inclusion, such as the one to be presented by José Polo and Toño Pérez (Atrio, 3*, Cáceres).

The 90s generation

This edition will focus on chefs under the age of 35, some of whom are already Michelin-starred, who form part of the 90s generation, who are on the rise and who will showcase their talent with a master class and showcooking.

LEARN

Auditori

Success stories from the hand of its protagonists. The Auditorium allows to enjoy live presentations by the most prestigious chefs.

We talk about gastronomy in all its forms

Our spaces, places to do business and share experiences...

INTERACT

Taller

Cooking sessions and demonstrations, with final tasting of the elaborated plates.

INNOVATE

Forum Lab

In the Forum Lab you will find a multidisciplinary space for new trends. Debates, conferences and round tables starring experts in sustainability, food innovation, new technologies and marketing, among other subjects.

TRAIN YOURSELF

Espai Catalunya
Regió Mundial de la Gastronomia

Live cooking space that demonstrate the gastronomic wealth of Catalonia.

GET TO KNOW

Aula Makro

SURPRISE YOURSELF

Forum Bar

The space for trends in the liquid world and mixology applied to the world of bar and gastronomy. Cocktails, premium distillates, healthy drinks, specialty coffees...

DEBATE

Aula Mercat Metropolità

Discover the gastronomic show

Auditorium

The space that allows you to enjoy a great cooking show with:

Live speeches by the most prestigious chefs such as Joan Roca, Albert Adrià, Oriol Castro, Eric Verbauwhede...

Thematic speeches and dialogues focused on (bio)diversity, the transformative power of cuisine, women in the cuisine and fire as a living element.

Workshop

The proximity between speakers and public offered by Gastronomic Forum Barcelona is demonstrated in the workshop with live cooking sessions with final tasting of dishes. .

Great masters such as Bego Rodrigo, Juan Sahuquillo or Javier Sanz talked about biodiversity in the kitchen.

Forum Lab

The space where ideas are cooked. Debates, conferences and round tables led by the best experts in a wide range of disciplines and three luxury partners: Barcelona Centre de Disseny, Fundación Restaurantes Sostenibles and Clúster Foodservice.

Aula Mercat Metropolità

Activities in which the present and future of sustainable gastronomy and biodiversity were discussed.
Space organized by the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona, Ajuntament de Barcelona and Mercabarna, with the collaboration of Slow food BCN and Oficina Conjunta d’Alimentació Sostenible (OCAS).

Cuina de l'Espai Catalunya

La Cuina de l'Espai Catalunya is a live cooking space promoted by the Barcelona Provincial Council, the Girona Provincial Council, the Lleida Provincial Council and Prodeca where producers and chefs from all over Catalonia meet. 22 sessions showcased products, producers, artisans, chefs and sommeliers from all over Catalonia as a sample of the gastronomic wealth of Catalonia.

Aula Makro

Makro showed its commitment to the dissemination of knowledge in gastronomy with Aula Makro. It offered seventeen sessions aimed at all professionals interested in learning about the latest gastronomic innovations to apply them in their hospitality businesses. To do this, it had the experience of up to 23 nationally recognized chefs.

HUB Alimentació i Acció Climàtica

It is the space that hosts presentations, exhibitions, round tables... focused on the field of food and climate action. The sector has very important challenges: in this space different projects and initiatives are presented to face them and turn these challenges into opportunities. The space is promoted by the Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda of the Generalitat de Catalunya and had the participation of different agents of the sector.

Forum Bar

The space for trends in the liquid world and mixology applied to the world of bar and gastronomy. Cocktails, premium distillates, health drinks, specialty coffees... In addition, in 2023 we celebrated the Maîtres de Hotel competition that recognized the work of hotel managers and hotel waiters.

Awards and recognitions

The spectacle of gastronomy with the Josep Mercader Awards, Cuiner Gastronomic Forum Barcelona 2024 Award, Plat Favorit dels Catalans, Best Artisan Panettone Award and Best Chocolate Panettone in Spain 2024 and The Baker Award.

MORE INFORMATION

All the activities organised by Gastronomic Forum Barcelona are free of charge for all professional visitors to the event.

Meet some of the speakers of the last edition!

Albert Adrià

Enigma*, Barcelona

Artur Martínez

Aürt*, Barcelona

Caroline Baerten & Nicolas Decloedt

Humus x Hortense, Brussels

Javier Olleros

Culler de Pau **+*V, d’O Grove, Pontevedra

Jesús Sánchez

Cenador de Amós ***+*V , Villaverde de Pontones, Cantabria

Joan Roca

El Celler de Can Roca***+*V, Girona

Jordi Butrón

Espai Sucre

Joke Michiel

Souvenir, Gante

Kamilla Seidler

Lola, Copenhagen

Manon Fleury

Datil, París

Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch y Mateu Casañas

Disfrutar **, Barcelona

Poul Andrias

Koks**, Denmark

Rodrigo de la Calle & Diana Díaz

El Invernadero*+

*Verde, Madrid

Zineb Hattab

Kle *V, Switzerland

And many more!

Guest events 2023

FOODTURE. The future Kitchen

Foodture Barcelona is the Innovation Summit in Food Design, Food Tech, Social Food and Sustainability born in Barcelona in 2010.

In this fifth edition, hold within the framework of the GFB, the objective was to publicize the most disruptive food innovation in order to explore and define new trends.

Foodture Barcelona highlights and brings together the creative minds who are leading the change in the global food order. Proposals that seem utopian but are now a reality.

Social Restoration and Circular Economy Congress

The International Congress on Social Restoration and Circular Economy Congress returned to Barcelona as a continuation of the one already held in Barcelona in the fall of 2021. This edition brought together national and international experts, academics and professionals.

A congress created within the aim of creating a multi-sector and avant-garde space for reflection and debate, that promotes the exchange of knowledge and experiences that allow continued progress in the necessary transition towards a gastronomic sector based on more sustainable, conscious and responsible management and restoration systems and models.

We're Smart Award Show

Cocineros como René Mathieu, Xavier Pellicer y Rodrigo de la Calle estuvieron presentes en la prestigiosa gala de premios a los mejores restaurantes del mundo en cocina vegetal.

La ceremonia de entrega de los prestigiosos premios anuales organizada, por We’re Smart Green World, se celebró por primera vez en Gastronomic Forum Barcelona.

III Science & Cooking World Congress 2022

Es un congreso internacional organizado por la Universitat de Barcelona, con el objetivo de explorar el potencial enorme de la Gastronomía Científica y como esta puede contribuir a dar soluciones a los grandes retos sociales.

La pasada edición giró en torno a Ingredientes, Tradición e Innovación.

FOODTURE

Es el Summit de Innovación en Food Design, Food Tech, Social Food y Sostenibilidad nacido en Barcelona y coorganizado por Barcelona Centre de Disseny y Plat Institute.

Dentro del FórumLab, se dio cita a proyectos visionarios, startups, ciencia, diseño e innovación para explorar y rediseñar el mundo de la alimentación.