Future of the industry and world-class chefs

GastroNord & Vinordic, northern Europe's most important trade fairs for hotels, restaurants, catering and fast food, will open its doors on April 26.For four days, Stockholmsmässan will be packed with exhibitors, world-class chefs, competitions and seminars. There will be plenty of activities and discussions when the industry gathers to do business and develop its future together.

Highlights at GastroNord & Vinordic:

Special day for the future of the industry
This year's GastroNord is focusing on restaurant students by giving them their own day - Friday, April 29. On this day, students will be able to meet representatives from the entire industry and the Student Chef of the Year will be announced. A student restaurant, Grow, is also being built at the fair, which will be run entirely by students, and the Junior National Culinary Team, of which several members are Sweden's leading young chefs and confectioners, will have a pop-up restaurant, Respect, at GastroNord for the first time.

Svenska Bocuse d´Or star fine-tunes his preparations
At the exhibition, Alexander Sjögren, Sweden's candidate for Bocuse d’Or, will practice in a specially constructed competition kitchen in front of an audience 9:00AM–2:00PM every day. Besides world-class food preparation, trade fair visitors will also be able to participate in interesting interviews and conversation at the table in front of Alexander’s kitchen.

“Former competitors from Bocuse d’Or will talk about what the competition meant for them and for Swedish gastronomy, and every day will end with an interview with Alexander and his team. We have also invited interesting profiles from the industry to come talk about the development and future of the industry,” says Frida Rönnlund from Gastronomy Sweden, which is responsible for the Swedish Bocuse d’Or participation.

Swedish National Food Truck Championship
The first official Swedish Food Truck Championship will be held at GastroNord. Twenty-five competing food trucks will continuously prepare their best dishes. The entries will be assessed based on flavor, appearance, value-for-money, hygiene and the quality of the ingredients. The jury is headed by Fredrik Eriksson, owner of Långbro Värdshus and chair of the jury for Chef of the Year. The other jury members include Maria Rankka, CEO of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, and Jens Linder, journalist and author of cookbooks.
Wednesday, April 27, 2:00PM.

Vinordic Wine Challenge 2016
Vinordic Wine Challenge is Sweden's only EU-certified wine competition and is arranged by Vinordic in association with the Allt om Vin magazine. The goal is to find Sweden's best value wines. All wines are tasted blind and individually. The test is led by Bengt-Göran Kronstam, from Allt om Vin and honorary chair of the Swedish Winewriters Association. The winners will be presented at Vinordic on Tuesday, April 26 at11:00AM.

Gastronomic Week
In parallel with the trade fair is Gastronomic Week, with several food-related events being held throughout Stockholm. The week focuses on food and drink in all of its forms and several of the activities are open to the general public. www.gastronomicweek.se

GastroNord and Vinordic, which will be held April 26-29, are northern Europe's most important trade fairs for hotels, restaurants, catering and fast food. The fairs are arranged every other year at Stockholmsmässan.

For more information, please contact:
Daniel Fritzdorf, Project Area Manager, daniel.fritzdorf@stockholmsmassan.se, + 46 70 789 41 96
Lotta Signeul, Press Officer, lotta.signeul@stockholmsmassan.se, + 46 70 789 43 36
www.gastronord.se, www.vinordic.sewww.gastronomicweek.se