The Business of Pleasure: how to make a career out of eating and drinking

Want to be a food writer? Fancy yourself as a restaurateur? Longing to open your own cafe, cookery school or street food stall, or proudly strut your stuff on the world’s finest floors?

Tim Hayward, Bristol-born food writer, broadcaster and restaurateur, in discussion with six panels of food and drink professionals.  Learn from the industry experts the pleasures and pitfalls of life on the inside in a series of sessions designed for those already in the business as well as those who are yet to take the leap.

Buy single tickets for each session or get four or more sessions for only £20 or £5 for students. Book here.

How to be a food writer/blogger: making your way in these parlous days of publishing. Chaired by Xanthe Clay.

11.00 - 11.45

Panel:

Fiona Beckett (Guardian drinks writer and blogger)

Claire Thomson (Guardian’s ‘5 O’Clock Apron‘; first book published April 2015)

Sarah Lavelle (Editorial Director, Ebury Press)

Mitzie Wilson (ex-editor of BBC Good Food and Delicious magazines, now freelance food writer and stylist)

Tim Hayward (food writer, broadcaster and restaurateur)

Dan Vaux Nobes (food blogger)

£5 tickets here.

How to be a food stylist/photographer: Ready, Steady, Shoot

12.00-12.45

Panel:

Genevieve Taylor (food stylist for brands including Masterchef, Aardman, Random House and Bloomsbury; author of six cookery books)

Rob Wicks (film maker and photographer specialising in food and drink)

Genevieve and Rob demonstrate how best to style and shoot a plate of food, and discuss their busy and successful careers.

£5 tickets or £1 for students here.

How to run a food business: turning a passion into a profit. 

13.00-13.45

Panel:

Laura Hart (Hart’s Bakery)

Mitch Church (Bagel Boy)

Elly Curshen (Pear Cafe)

Jenny Chandler (cookery school owner, food writer and consultant)

Michael Parrott (licensing lawyer dealing with clients ranging from individual restaurateurs to large pub groups)

Dom Lane (PR Strategist, Colour & Thing)

Nathan Lee  (one-time waiter; now co-owner Milk Thistle/Hyde & Co/The Ox)

£5 tickets or £1 for students here.

How to be a chef: words of wisdom from young gunslingers and the old guard.

15.00-15.45

Panel:

Barny Haughton (Rocinantes/Quartier Vert/Bordeaux Quay/Square Food Foundation)

Chris Wicks (ex-Bell’s Diner, now King of Cookery at City of Bristol College)

Romy Gill  (Romy’s Kitchen)

Matthew Pennington (The Ethicurean)

Imogen Waite (ex-supper club host, now chef/prop Bravas/Baker & Co)

Ruby Bell (Bordeaux Quay/Arnolfini Cafe Bar/Flinty Red/Bell’s Diner & Bar Rooms)

£5 tickets or £1 for students here.

How to be a front-of-house star: giving your customers the full eight inches.

16.00-16.45

Panel:

Russell Allen (maitre d’, The Ox)

Jack Hudspith (UK Top Ten Barista Hit Parade, Small Street Espresso)

Liberty Wenham (ex-Café Anglais, Mark Hix, now co-owner Wallfish Bistro)

Frederic Maindron (ex-Bell’s Diner maitre d’, now Restaurant Manager tutor City of Bristol College)

Tom Pridham (ex-Riverstation, Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons, Flinty Red,now wine consultant for Corbin & King)

Kate Hawkings (Rocinantes, Bell’s Diner & Bar Rooms and many floors in between)

£5 tickets or £1 for students here.

Date: Saturday, 3 May

Location: At-Bristol Science Centre , STEM Learning Suite, Anchor Road, Harbourside, BS1 5DB