Bengaluru, January 27: One of the most iconic and the largest congregation of student chefs from 50 countries will gather for a week, in different cities, to celebrate power of food to build bridges of solidarity and bring people and countries together.
The 11th edition of the Young Chef Olympiad, will be held under the aegis of the International Institute of Hotel Management (IIHM) in partnership with the International Hospitality Council (IHC) London. The Young Chef Olympians- student Chefs from 50 nations will undertake two rounds of culinary challenges, to attempt to win, the coveted YCO 2025 Golden Toque.
Speaking to journalists across India on a video conference before this global event, Dr. Suborno Bose, Chairman of International Hospitality Council (IHC) and Founder YCO, and Chairman IIHM said “Through the course of 11 years, the Young Chef Olympisd has grown from strength to strength and has taken on many worthy causes starting from unity in diversity to the UN Sustainability Development Goals and to the promotion of Millets. This year we will secure the future of hospitality & hospitality education to make Al which we call Advanced Intelligence) help tourism and hospitality do more for people with enhanced human touch. The immersive experience of the Olympiad, will dismantle barriers and cultivate an environment where dialogue flourishes and friendship blossoms.”
The competition rounds will start, at the IIIM campus kitchens, from Feb 3, in Goa, and from Feb 4 in Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. The top 10 Young Chef Olympians as per the scores of the two rounds, will compete in the Grand Finale of YCO 2025 in Kolkata on February 8, 2025. However there is also the plate trophy and the Dr Suborno Bose Culinary International Challenge prize up for grabs. Each trophy, in this global platform, is bound to embellish the careers of young chefs and validate their skills.
Bat cach of the Young Chet Mympinas, clong with their mentors, the judges, and the YOO crganising team and student volunteers will be quite liberally, on the same plate of friendship, as each of them will go home a winner, is the cause of cementing Friendships and unity through food
There will be another winner in this year’s YCO. This winter will not compete but be the calyst for phenomenal change in glitel hospitality education Al The Imemotional Institute of Hotel Management (IIHM), has adopted a comprehensive framework to integrate Artificial Intelligmer (Al) into global hospitality education This initiative prioritizes inclusivity, herran-centric values, and stainability. reflecting the industry’s evolving needs while preserving its essence.
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Judges is. Bengaluru will be Chef Szzin Kenworthy, Chefood concept consultant and sintegist, Chef Mario Perera. Executive Chef at The Beechester, London, Chef Etro Olivern, Celebrity Chat, Cavaliere OSI, President of lielian Chefs Federation Director Intemetional Hospality Council, Senior Judge Young Chet Olympiad Hospitality Educator, Food promaries, Ever/Exhibition Organiser The Chief Adjudicate wit be Chef Paul Jery is-head of stool Westminster capital city of college. The Bengaluru event will be sponsored by Ariane Porcelain. Brigade Beephality, Me Cain Foods, Incredible India Ministry of Tourism & Yova Tourism Rasgalere Chaprion and Deiptis
This year an additional climination round was the Young Chef India round which saw participulis from students frors hotel management institutes across the country. We are proud that the winner of the VCI 2025 is Aliakbar Rampurawale fries Bengaluru, upprisse Ms Sunchari Chowdhury, FHHM. Director JM Hotel School, Bangalore, Hood- South India & Co-Director- lod Smart Learning, while addressing the medis.
Showcasing the multicultural culinary diversity of different countries, YOO 2025 will also bring together the student chefs and chef mentors for the “United World of Young Chets There will be World Cuisine display by the 10 perucuparing countries at Bangalore & Karnataka Food festival organized by IHM Bengalore partnership with Venice Partner Brigade Hospitality on 314 hebruary 2005. We are expecting a foot fall of 500-700 pax to the present within the apo demographic of 18-25 in the student con and a mixture of 25-50 in the form of parens, mentors and chefs from abecad,” added Me Chowdhury
A book by Dr Subomo Bose on the A to Z of Al in tourism and hospitality will be Isanched during the opening of the YCO in Goa. This is uply called Harmonizing Marmar Touch and Alla Tourism and Hospitality Wat ‘YCO and Al Saborno Bose has changed the realm of hospitality education”, Palma Shri Chethanjoes Kapoor. Principal Judge and Mentor for VCO/2025
Intelligent hospitality, therefore will be a goal and a way of life of the Young Chef Olympians as they cook, compete, collaborate, but most importantly comment ties, in the largest grandstanding of culinary diplomacy in the world, achieved by young chofs. This impact will be felt beyond the kitchens in IIIM campuses, in the cities where two rounds of the Young Chet Olympiad will be held, culminating in the grand finale where the winner will be chosen.
As in previous years Padma Shri Chet Sanjeev Kapoor is the Principal Judge and Mentor for YCO 2025 while Prof David Foskett OBE, the legendary hospitality educator and author is Chairman of the Jury, The fodging panel includes internationally acclaimed celebrity chef judges including Chiet Judge Chet John Wood, a Michelin Star Chet and Founder of KitchenUT.
- Members of the public will also get an opportunity to participate. There will be an online voting opened to vote for the best dessert its rond-1 of the main competition, and for the most popular national dish in the United Wodd of Young Chefs competition.
As the chefs of 50 countries including India’s very own, Aliakbar Rampurawala from Bengaluru, return from YCO, the fire of solidarity of the Young Chef Olympiad movement will burn in hospitality college campuses and beyond in these countries, thus making the YCO, a truly global movement- curated and chiseled under the visionary leadership of Dr Suborno Bose, Chairman IIHM and Founder YCO.
