Steam Wine Bar interior, set for a lunch event

Speakers archive

Names that have kept the City talking

Twenty years of Celebrity Lunches and Dinners in the basement at 1 St George’s Lane. A live archive, updated as new dates land in the diary.

A few of the names

The roll call

Sport, broadcasting, and the household names that have kept City lunchtimes interesting since 2005. Sampled here, scrolling below.

Sir Michael Vaughan

Cricket · England

Sir Andrew Strauss

Cricket · England

Joe Marler

Rugby · England

Jeff Stelling

Broadcasting · Sky

John Barnes

Football · Liverpool

Daley Thompson

Athletics · Olympic gold

Sir Ian Botham

Cricket · England

Harry Redknapp

Football management

Lawrence Dallaglio

Rugby · England

Frank Bruno

Boxing

Daley Thompson
Jeff Stelling
John Barnes
Ricky Hatton
Sir Ian Botham
Harry Redknapp
Ally McCoist
Lawrence Dallaglio
Frank Bruno
Sir Michael Vaughan
Sir Andrew Strauss
Alan Brazil
Paul Gascoigne
Sir Alastair Cook
Chris Waddle
Sean Fitzpatrick
Sir Geoffrey Boycott
Eddie Jones
Mike Tindall
Jimmy Anderson
Glenn Hoddle
Joe Marler
Damon Hill
Paul Merson
Sir Trevor Brooking
Kirsty Gallacher
Bryan Robson
Michael Holding
Ellen White
Stuart Broad
Coming soon

Past celebrity events

A run through of past lunches and dinners, who came, what was said, and what stayed with the room. This section is being populated as we work through the back catalogue.

In progress

The detailed back catalogue is being built

If you came to one of the lunches and have a story, a photo, or a memory you would like to share, drop us a line. We are pulling the archive together from twenty years of guest books, photo rolls, and emails.

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