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Back to school at Vatel Bordeaux 5 tips to start out right You’ve just started school at Vatel Bordeaux and you’re wondering what could help you succeed? You’re familiar with our school, but would like to review a few things? Here’s a short list (far from a complete one) of tips for a seamless [...]
Vatel Bordeaux Hotel has a new Rooms Division Manager Portrait - Eric Pourtau-Mondoutey, who started his job just three months ago, has already imposed his style and won his students’ hearts. After a mere few months, everyone thinks that this job was tailor-made for him. Eric, a charming, elegant and authentic man who always smiles, [...]
Quentin Merlet, the “Tables Vatel” Chef, will ensure the show for the 2017 Épicuriales event! There will be innovations by the bushel for the 23rd edition of the Épicuriales with Insider by La Fourchette, a gourmet bistro where talented Chefs with a bright future will be competing with each other. The new Chef of [...]
Tables Vatel has a port of call in the Antilles Students, supervised by Chef Franck Descas and Chef Quentin Merlet, prepared and served a Creole menu. On May 17, students doing an application week at the Tables Vatel had a unique opportunity: cooking and serving an Antilles menu, supervised by Chefs Franck Descas and Quentin [...]
Vatel Bordeaux hosts the Aquitaine Organic Winegrowers competition Experts blind-tasted hundreds of samples to determine the 2017 winning wines. Each year, in May, the New-Aquitaine Federation of Organic Wine organizes the Organic Winegrowers Competition to find the best organic wines in the area. “Open to all organic certified wines, (VQPRD and IGP, two French [...]
The 2017 Vatel Bordeaux Gala - an unforgettable evening Let’s have a closer look at this exceptional, pleasant and congenial event. The Vatel Bordeaux Gala is an event everyone loves, where all the different classes of the school meet up to celebrate the new Bachelor’s and MBA alumni. This year, students and the Vatel Bordeaux’s [...]
Students doing a hospitality and tourism two-year vocational degree, who will soon be graduating, decided to go to Bordeaux for their annual school trip. What kind of jobs can you get with a vocational degree in hospitality? Is my level high enough to continue my studies with an MBA? What do different schools expect from [...]
On March 11, Vatel Bordeaux hosted the L’Étiquette - Blind Tasting Inter-School Wine Tasting Challenge created by Kedge in 2016. Six teams of four students from the Kedge, the ESVV (School of wines and wine sciences), the EM Lyon and Vatel Bordeaux met to defend their schools’ colors. In front of a jury made [...]
A few words about the interesting presentation that Catherine Nicolas, a specialist in tea tasting and educational methods, gave us. The samovars are plugged in and an unusual odor of plants and fruit is penetrating the tasting room; quite a surprise for first year MBA students who are beginning their discovery workshop with the famous [...]
Let’s head to Martillac for a guided tour of Les Sources de Caudalie. Vatel first year MBA students were greeted by Marie Christine Ters, the hotel’s assistant manager and a Vatelien, for a general immersion into the 5* universe of the Sources Caudalie, an unusual palace in the heart of the Château Smith Haut Lafitte [...]