Where to find Adande this autumn: Catering Innovation and The Depot Kitchen
Where to find Adande this autumn: Catering Innovation and The Depot Kitchen
It’s a busy season coming up for the Adande team, and we want to make sure you know exactly where to find us. Over the next few months, we’re taking our drawer refrigeration out of the brochure and into two very different live environments — a chef-led collaborative kitchen event in Northamptonshire, and one of the industry’s biggest one-day trade shows in London. Here’s what we’ve got planned, and what you can see (and taste) on the stand.
The Depot Kitchen Sessions
Monday 14 September 2026
The Depot Kitchen Sessions is a new event from Premier Ranges and Charvet UK, hosted at their kitchen showroom, The Depot, in Northamptonshire. This isn’t a traditional showroom or exhibition. It’s been built around live, chef-led sessions that shows how equipment from different manufacturers work together, rather than everyone demonstrating their own kit ALONE. Alongside Adande, the partner line-up includes Charvet, Unox, Ceramics & Steel, de Buyer, Pacojet, OxGrills and Udale Speciality Foods.
Ben Aird, Managing Director of Premier Ranges and Charvet UK, explains the thinking behind the event:
"We created The Depot to be used, not simply looked at. We wanted a space where chefs could cook, experiment, ask questions and experience equipment properly. The Kitchen Sessions takes that idea much further. By bringing together manufacturers and suppliers that share our approach, we can create an experience that is far more valuable to chefs than simply demonstrating one brand or one piece of equipment. The professional kitchen is an ecosystem. Charvet might sit at the heart of it, but chefs are also using ovens, refrigeration, specialist cookware, ingredients and preparation equipment every day. Bringing that expertise together makes the experience much more relevant to the way chefs actually work."
Adande features across three of the day's six live sessions:
- Precision & Consistency (12:00–12:45) — with Charvet and Unox, exploring how modern refrigeration, precise temperature control and combi oven technology improve consistency, efficiency and kitchen workflow.
- Finishing & Presentation (13:00–13:45) — with Charvet, Ceramics & Steel and de Buyer, looking at the details that elevate a finished dish.
- Waste Less, Create More (15:00–15:45) — with Charvet and Unox, a practical look at reducing waste and improving yield without compromising quality.
We’re also part of the free-roaming Innovation Kitchen (16:00–16:45), where chefs and partner brands can experiment without a fixed agenda. Doors open at 10am, sessions run from 11am to 4:45pm, and the event closes at 5pm. Registration is free via the Kitchen Sessions page.
What we're bringing
An Adande SVS2 combo prep station, joining a VCS2 unit already on site and a VCS1 cassette in the Charvet showroom — giving visitors a good spread of our drawer refrigeration to see in action across the day, all built into working prep counters rather than sat on a stand.
The Catering Innovation Show
Monday 5 October 2026
A few weeks later we’re heading to London for the Catering Innovation Show, held at the Business Design Centre. It’s grown into one of the must-attend one-day events for foodservice professionals across restaurants, hotels, contract catering, healthcare, education and leisure, bringing together the industry’s major brands and suppliers under one roof.
What we'll be bringing to The Catering Innovation Show
On our stand, we’ll be bringing our SVS2 Prep Station unit along with our VCC1 Compact drawer.
The Adande VCC1 Compact Drawer
The Adande VCC1 Compact Drawer is a slimline, rear-engine unit designed with an ultra-short 450 mm width and impressive 69-litre deep capacity, allowing operators to squeeze high-efficiency, variable-temperature storage (22°C to +15°C) directly onto the end of a tight cookline. With a fry basket holding station on top!
Registration for the show is via the Catering Innovation Show website.
We hope to see you there!
Whether you’re a chef looking to get hands-on in a working kitchen at The Depot, or a buyer scanning the floor at the Business Design Centre for what’s next in commercial refrigeration, we’d love to talk drawers. Come and find the Adande stand at either event — or both.