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.

Share a memory