Culinary Challenge

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 !


Rule Book 2025


Amendments & Sponsor

Competition Schedule



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Application Form

Competition Categories

STATIC – DISPLAY

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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

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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

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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

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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

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