IIHM Launches Institute of Pastry and Culinary and The First Ever Chocolate Hotel
The International Institute of Hotel Management has launched
a world-class Pastry School, IIHM Institute of Patisserie and Culinary (IIPC)
headed by renowned Pastry Expert, Chef Avijit Ghosh, Brand Ambassador, the
Belgian chocolate company Callebaut and former Corporate Pastry Chef, Leela
Palaces Hotels and Resorts.
IIPC's first ever unique 'Chocolat Hotel' is all set to open
doors in Bangalore. A hotel, café, banquet, rooms and buffet designed, inspired
and themed on chocolate is an incredible and unexplored area. The new hotel
will have its own chocolate café and chocolate buffet with the best
international chocolate brands displaying their products here. Chocolate-lovers
will also get to see, taste and buy a variety of items that will be available
at the chocolate exhibitions that will be held here from time to time.
The good news for young culinary talents who aspire to
become pastry chefs or homemakers who want to master the art of making
chocolates is that IIPC will start special classes to learn chocolate-making.
Interested people are welcome to come to the hotel, stay for six days and learn
the art of chocolate making. It's a residential programme open to all
interested candidates.
The hotel rooms, too, will be themed on chocolate. Chocolate
exhibitions displaying the best chocolate brands and their products. This is
the very first Institute in India promoting culinary tourism. The attempt is to
make The Chocolate Hotel a destination for holiday – goers.
IIPC will be offering nine months and a six months
certificate course in patisserie which will also have the residential option.
IIPC will also offer weekend courses and customised residential courses for the
matured students.
Chef Avijit Ghosh said, "This is a unique and
innovative idea of starting a Chocolate Hotel. This will be the
first-of-its-kind and people will experience chocolate in so many forms like
never before. At IIPC, people interested in learning the art of
chocolate-making will find a lot of inspiration for making various kinds of
chocolates and pastries."
Dr. Suborno Bose, the Chairman and Chief Mentor of IIHM
said, "This is going to be the first Chocolate Hotel in India where
everything will be themed on chocolate. Everyone loves chocolate and it is a
way of expressing a lot of emotions for most people. I think this new concept
will provide a unique opportunity to taste and experience chocolate in various
forms. We are starting IIPC as well where the very talented and renowned pastry
chef, Chef Avijit Ghosh will lead the pastry and chocolate-making
classes."
About IIHM
IIHM (International Institute of Hotel Management) is the
largest chain of premier hospitality and hotel management schools across India
that started its journey in 1994 at Kolkata. IIHM is a part of Indismart Group,
the conglomerate that operates the Indismart Hotels. IIHM campuses are located
across eleven National and International cities with the associate institute
IAM-IHM located in Kolkata, and Guwahati. Students passing out of IIHM are
armed with an international degree from the University of West London and
equipped with global hospitality skills that enable easy placements in any
hospitality brand across the world. IIHM is dedicated to its pursuit of
excellence in teaching and placements. Real time experience is the key to
success in hospitality and that makes the institute popular. In recent years,
IIHM has been instrumental in organizing the Worlds biggest Culinary Olympiad
Young Chef Olympiad, with participation of over 50 countries, a unique idea and
initiative inviting young culinary talents across the world. It has MOU's with
over 50 countries for student and faculty exchange bringing the best of
education for its students from around the World.
The institute has bagged several prestigious awards in the
past 24 years. The list includes the Best Education Brand Award from Economic
Times consecutively in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. It was also featured in
Forbes Magazine as Great Indian Institute and Great Place to Study
consecutively in the year 2018 - 2019 and 2019 - 2020. IIHM was also awarded as
one among the World's Greatest Brands & Leaders 2015-16 by URS
International (IMEA - Process Reviewer PriceWaterhouseCoopers PL) and also
received the Best Institute in Hospitality Education 2017 Award by Assocham
from Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey, Hon'ble Minister of State for HRD (Higher
Education), Govt. of India.