Leading food services company, Harbour & Jones hosted top chefs and food professionals at a champagne reception for the first ever live Michelin Star unveiling event held at the IET London, Savoy Place on Monday 3rd October.
Harbour & Jones chefs prepared 3,000 canapés for Great Britain & Ireland’s top chefs and other high profile guests and served Veuve Clicquot champagne. The lunchtime champagne reception was held in the Riverside Room and on the Roof Terrace of the IET, where the catering operation is managed by Harbour & Jones. Over 300 guests attended the star-studded event including Heston Blumenthal, Michel Roux and his son Alain Roux, Raymond Blanc and Marcus Waring to name just a few.
Canapés devised by the IET’s Executive Chef Anthony O’Donnell included tequila cured salmon with lime crème fraiche in crisp tortilla, tuna tartare with sesame, wasabi and avocado on nori crisp and confit duck ballotine with Kashmiri mayonnaise and apple on a rice cracker.
Patrick Harbour, Director and Co-Founder of Harbour & Jones commented: “Harbour & Jones was proud to play a part in the first ever live Michelin Star unveiling event at one of the most prestigious venues in London – the IET at Savoy Place. With the nation’s top chefs and food experts in the same room together, the bar was extremely high but our staff exceeded expectations with a mouth-watering and innovative canapé selection and immaculate service.”
Event partners comprised: Bookatable by Michelin, Delifrance, Infiniti, Nespresso, San Pellegrino and Veuve Clicquot.
