Cornish Challenge 2012 - Calling all chefs!
It’s that time of year when the hunt is on to find Cornwall’s best eateries. Entries are now open for the Cornish Challenge 2011, the county’s own chef and restaurant competition. It’s easy and FREE to enter and open to all restaurants, hotels, pubs and cafes – in fact any business in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly that believes it deserves recognition for its great food and service and has what it takes to be a winner.
The Challenge is likely to be hotly contested and the 2011 winners, from the Rose in Vale, near St. Agnes, are already preparing to defend their crown.
The Cornish Challenge is a Cornwall Catering Excellence initiative, created by a group of Cornish businesses with links to the hospitality industry. Its aim is to encourage and reward good local restaurants who make the best of Cornwall’s fantastic produce. Of course, an essential element of every restaurant is its presentation and customer service and the Challenge tests this too.
Cornwall College is part of the Cornwall Catering Excellence group and plays a big part in the Challenge. Students of the college get the chance to learn from some of the best local restaurants and chefs by being involved in the action on the night. Taking part in ‘real’ occasions such as this is incredibly valuable experience for them and is intended to show them that jobs in the restaurant trade can be really rewarding – and good fun too.
To enter the Challenge, restaurants simply need to devise a four-course menu using Cornish seasonal ingredients. An independent panel of judges will select 6 worthy teams of contenders to sweat it out against each other in the grand finale, to be held on February 6th 2012 at Cornwall College. Every member of the lucky winning team will receive £100 prize money and, of course, the Cornish Challenge title for 2012.
Cornwall’s new food industry organisation, Cornwall Food and Drink, is managing entries this year. Further information and an entry pack are available from the website, www.cornwallfoodanddrink.co.uk or by calling Ruth Huxley on 01872 865101. The deadline for entries is Friday 4th November.
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