CAFE 2025

Culinary Challenges

We are honored to host the 22nd Culinary Art Food Expo 2025 (CAFÉ) – Southeast Asia’s premier food and hospitality tradeshow – from June 13th to 15th, 2025, at the BMICH Exhibition Centre in Colombo. This annual event brings together over 3,000 competitors on a single platform, showcasing culinary excellence and fostering creativity.

We warmly invite all chefs and F&B professionals in Sri Lanka, along with our international friends from across Southeast Asia, to join us for CAFÉ 2025. This is a fantastic opportunity to connect, exchange experiences, and learn at this prestigious culinary event. This annual event brings together over 3,000 competitors on a single platform, showcasing culinary excellence and fostering creativity.

As Sri Lanka’s only professional and Recognized chefs’ association dedicated to promoting culinary excellence, we are committed to showcasing the skills and talents of chefs, cooks, pastry chefs, and apprentices from both local and international backgrounds. This event offers an ideal platform for industry professionals to demonstrate their culinary expertise, gain valuable experience, and foster communication within the regional culinary community.

This annual event has been the platform in identifying the talents of the young chefs who has been selected for many international events such as world culinary food Olympics, Germany & culinary world cup Luxemburg.

We are pleased to offer a variety of competition categories where participants can display their skills and passion in a professional environment. To ensure fairness and accuracy, WAC’s-certified judges will oversee the competition. The experience you gain here will undoubtedly serve as a significant milestone in your professional journey.

The organizing committee would greatly appreciate your support in registering as early as possible due to the limited space availability and not to miss out on this great battle of the chefs 2025. We wish all competitors the best of success and a memorable experience.

We look forward to welcoming you to CAFÉ 2025 !

Competition Schedule

Category

  • 3 Course Set Dinner
  • Mini French Pastries
  • Wedding Cake Structures
  • Artistic Pastry Showpiece
  • Artistic Chocolate Showpiece
  • Artistic Showpiece Salt Dough
  • Novelty Cake
  • Dessert Open
  • New Sri Lankan Cuisine
  • Hot Cooking Open (Meat)
  • Hot Cooking Open (Seafood)
  • Hot cooking chicken platter
  • Zara pasta challenge
  • Fruit and Veg Carving
  • Ice Carving
  • Palwatte cocktail canapes
  • Prima bakery team challenge
  • CIC twist of taste
  • Pyramid Wilmar Dress the cake
  • Tastyy Mediterranean dining
  • Apprentice Hot cooking
  • Apprentice Dessert
  • Apprentice Afternoon tea competition
  • Nescafe Creative Coffee
  • Scan Sunquick Mocktail Competition
  • IDL Arrack Cocktail Competition
  • Beer/Stout Cocktail Competition

Number / Category

  • Class A2 Static
  • Class A3 Static
  • Class A4 Static
  • Class A6 Static
  • Class A7 Static
  • Class A8 Static
  • Class A9 Static
  • Class B1 Live
  • Class B2 Live
  • Class B3 Live
  • Class B4 Live
  • Class B5 Live
  • Class B6 Live
  • Class B7 Live
  • Class B8 Live
  • Class B9 Live
  • Class B10 Live
  • Class B11 Live
  • Class B12 Live
  • Class B 13 Live
  • Class C1 Live
  • Class C2 Live
  • Class C3 Live
  • Class D1 Live
  • Class D2 Live
  • Class D3 Live
  • Class D4 Live

Category

  • Plated Desserts
  • Dessert Open l
  • New Sri Lankan Cuisine
  • Hot Cooking Open (Meat)
  • Hot Cooking Open (Seafood)
  • Hot cooking chicken platter
  • Zara pasta challenge
  • Fruit and Veg Carving
  • Ice Carving
  • Palwatte cocktail canapes
  • Prima bakery team challenge
  • CIC twist of taste
  • Pyramid Wilmar Dress the cake
  • Tastyy Mediterranean dining
  • Apprentice Hot cooking
  • Apprentice Dessert
  • Apprentice Afternoon tea competition
  • Nescafe Creative Coffee
  • Sunquick Mocktail Competition
  • IDL Arrack Cocktail Competition
  • Beer/Stout Cocktail Competition

Number / Category

  • Class A5 Static
  • Class B1 Live
  • Class B2 Live
  • Class B3 Live
  • Class B4 Live
  • Class B5 Live
  • Class B6 Live
  • Class B7 Live
  • Class B8 Live
  • Class B9 Live
  • Class B10 Live
  • Class B11 Live
  • Class B12 Live
  • Class B 13 Live
  • Class C1 Live
  • Class C2 Live
  • Class C3 Live
  • Class D1 Live
  • Class D2 Live
  • Class D3 Live
  • Class D4 Live

Competition Categories

STATIC – DISPLAY

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

A1

A2

A3

A4

A5

A6

A7

A8

Plated Appetizers

5 Course Set Dinner Menu

Mini French Pastries

Wedding Cake Structures

Triple Chocolate & fruit Dessert

Artistic Pastry Showpiece (pastillage, Sugar, marzipan)

Artistic showpiece (salt dough)

Artistic ANOD chocolate showpiece

PRACTICAL – LIVE

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

B1

B2

B3

B4

B5

B6

B7

B8

B9

B10

B11

Dessert open live (hot & cold dessert)

Fusion Sri Lankan Cuisine

Hot Cooking Open (Poultry, Beef & Lamb & Pork)

Hot Cooking Sea Food (Local fish / prawns/squid / mussel)

Fruit & Vegetable Carving

Individual Ice Carving

Cocktail Canapés

Artisan Bread Creations

Zara Pasta combo

Dress the Cake

Mediterranean Fusion Set menu

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

C1

C2

C3

C4

Apprentice Set Menu Live

Dilmah Afternoon Tea Competition for the 21st Century

Home bakers Novelty cake

Student Set Menu- Hotels schools Only

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

CLASS

D1

D2

D3

D4

Nescafe Creative Coffee- Nescafe Challenge Trophy

Sunquick Mocktail Competition

Arrack Cocktail Competition

Lion Beer/Stout Cocktail Competition

Sponsor Categories

Cooking Equipment (Ovens, Upright chillers, Gas cookers, SS tables- these items will be returned after use)

Bakery Equipment -small dough Mixers, Racks, Deck ovens- these items will be returned after use)

Ingredients -meat, poultry, Seafood, Oil, pasta etc

• Competitor meal sponsor- breakfast, tea snacks

Media partner- Newspaper, social media, TV, Radio