Culinary showcase
Salon Culinaire awarda the best chefs, cooks and bakers in the region
One of the most anticipated cooking competitions in the region took place at Gulfood. Comprising a series of practical and display-based culinary competitions, Emirates Culinary Guild Salon Culinaire tested the skills of a cross section of professional chefs, pastry chefs, cooks and bakers, while celebrating food preparation and presentation.
More than 1,300 competitors were evaluated by a panel of judges, mandated by the World Association of Chefs Societies (WACS) to adjudicate culinary events across the globe. Gold, silver and bronze medals and certificates were awarded, in addition to trophies for individuals who have attained excellence at the competition.
Hospitality by Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) won 85 accolades across 27 categories with its core team of 49 chefs showcasing their skills across multiple categories, including five-course plated menu, Arabic mezzeh — practical cookery, an Arabian feast, ice carving, and the pastry showpiece.
In total, DWTC’s chefs won eight gold medals, 19 silver, 24 bronze and 34 merit awards, in addition to winning the title of Best Effort by an Individual Establishment for the sixth year.
Raimund Haemmerle, DWTC’s executive chef and team mentor, said: “On behalf of everyone at DWTC, we are extremely proud of our talented chefs and the stellar results achieved. We have participated in this competition for over a decade, and as an organisation that is renowned for its hospitality, we are thrilled that our team’s hard work and dedication to the culinary arts has been recognised. We invest a significant amount of time and effort in team training and development to ensure we serve premium quality dishes year-round to our guests. For instance, in the lead up to the Etihad F1 Grand Prix, we invested over 2800 training hours to plan for the 27,000 meals that were served at the event.”
Hospitality by DWTC has witnessed year-on-year growth and in 2015 it catered for over two million visitors at both the venue and off-site locations — with some of the team’s biggest off-sites contracts to date being the Etihad F1 Grand Prix, the Dubai World Cup at Meydan and the Dubai Airshow.
Also celebrating at Salon Culinaire was Citymax hotel Al Barsha, with several chefs from the Dubai property picking up awards. Sandeep Pundir was awarded the silver medal in the chicken practical cookery category; Faizal Aminat and Rabin K Sivaram were both awarded bronze medals in the fish and seafood practical category; and Prakash Yeshudasan and Dinesh Prasad were awarded with a merit certificate in the beef and chicken practical category.
Citmax Hotels COO Russel Sharpe commented: “This is a great achievement for our chefs at Citymax Hotel Al Barsha. We are proud to have a talented group of chefs and we will look forward to more of them taking part and succeeding in future events.”
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