Slovenia has been officially recommended to be awarded the title of European Region of Gastronomy 2021 by an international jury of experts on 20 July 2018. The announcement took place during a press conference organised at Ljubljana Castle in front of local and national media and followed the official presentation
The spotlight was on reinventing traditional recipes using local produce as Slovenia European Region of Gastronomy candidate 2021 held its first National Preliminary competition of the European Young Chef Award (EYCA). With a creative dish of Bohinj trout, red beet sauce and buckwheat popcorn, Rok Žurman took home first prize
Slovenia and Coimbra Region (Portugal) formally presented their candidature for the European Region of Gastronomy 2021 title by submitting their bid books on 31 May 2018. In both regions, a stakeholder group involving institutions from the public, private, third and education sectors has been set up, with the aim to guide the regions towards the
Slovenia impressed the European Regions of Gastronomy Platform with their proposal to become candidate for the award in 2021. Slovenia, has already taken important steps to towards the Award, with ten key institutions already signing a protocol agreement demonstrating their firm commitment for Slovenia to bid for the title in
