European Pizza & Pasta Show.

European Pizza and Pasta Show

The European Pizza & Pasta Show 9-10 November 2016 Olympia London The European Pizza and Pasta Show is celebrating five years, and will take place at Olympia, London, on the 18 and 19 October 2021 (www.pizzapastashow.com).

CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS

Visitors will be able to celebrate the old, the new, the best and the tastiest, say the show’s organisers; namely, the one and only pizza!

Organised in association with the UK’s PAPA (the Pizza, Pasta and Italian Food Association, www.papa.org.uk), and with the support of Visit Britain, the event has become a leading business to business meeting of what has become one of the largest UK food and beverage industry segments – pizza, pasta and Italian food.

Visited by 4,000 key buyers, the event showcases the latest products and technology for restaurants, pubs, cafés, takeaways, dark and shared kitchens, hotels, catering companies, as well as wholesalers, supermarkets, grocery stores and delicatessen from across the UK and Europe.

“This is a very positive show, with more pizza makers attending this year. The show is a good meeting point for those in the industry - an excellent platform for launching new products,” said Antimo Caputo, MD of Naples-based flour company, Antimo Caputo srl.

This year’s show is being sponsored by Molino Caputo, GI Metal, Jestic, PeppaCo, SaltWell and Petra Srl, and will be aiming to unite the industry and market by delivering two days of excitement and innovation on stage with the best chefs on hand to show us how through the making of the dough, to how to achieve the best taste when it comes to cooking one of the oldest pies known to mankind!

PIZZA CHEF SHOWCASE

“With so much competition, the industry’s chefs and developers are always keen to find the next big thing. British Baker visited the European Pizza and Pasta Show to find out what’s hot in pizza, and as the late Freddie Mercury once sang ‘I want it all, and I want it now’. That’s pretty much how Brits feel when it comes to pizza. Luckily, the industry is responding!” said British Baker’s Amy North when reflecting on the event’s prominence.

Challenging the norms of today, the European Pizza and Pasta Show has become an integral showcase for invention and origination - a stage for many world-leading chefs to bring their expertise and skills in support of the industry.

From cooking master classes to the European Pizza Championship, and the hotly-contested, PAPA Pizza Chef of the Year Final, the event will setting out to bring together industry leaders across some 20 sessions to discuss the present and the future of our industry.

AJMAL MUSHTAQ

The 2021 edition’s headline speaker will be Ajmal Mushtaq, considered by many to be the UK’s leading authority on the takeaway sector. He writes for many of the UK’s leading trade magazines and has become a regular ‘feature’ on television news for his expert views.

Ajmal Mushtaq is the director of Boss Pizza – a pizza company that has ambitious national expansion plans. He is also the owner of the biggest takeaway operation in Britain and has featured in BBC2’s Best of British takeaways, on BBC 1 and in Channel 4 ‘s Dispatches and many more.