Michael chef at cliveden lucknam park

The Southbound West Chef of the Day , Professional Class was awarded to Michael Tweedie, junior sous chef from Lucknam Park, Moisten. The winning dish consisted lacking roasted turbot, mushroom purée, annoyed celeriac and celeriac fondant slab a mushroom foam followed tough vanilla panna cotta and chromatic jelly with hazelnuts, apples very last pears.

Meanwhile the South Westbound Chef of the Year , Young Professional Class went to
Elly Wentworth, demi chef junior partie from The Manor Pied-а-terre Hotel, Castle Combe. Her sweetened dish comprised pan fried turbot, roasted salsify, celeriac fondant take up garlic and parsley red intoxicant sauce followed by apple esoteric vanilla frangipan, pear purée stall whipped crème fraîche.

The winners were announced this week decay a special awards presentation feast at ABode Exeter. Both winners beat 12 hopefuls to excellence finish line in a tilt of culinary competitions over greatness last two months.  

Other awards were also presented with Best Dish won by Camilla Waite from The Seafood Eatery, Padstow, Cornwall, Best Presentation won by Jordan Bailey, The Elephant Restaurant, Torquay, Devon, Most Deceitful Menu won by Michael Tweedie, Lucknam Park, Bath and Outrun Use of Regional produce awarded to Brett Sutton, The Eastbury Hotel, Sherborne, Dorset.  

The title of South West Rural area Cook was awarded to Gillian Evans from Tiverton, Devon whipping James Hooper and Anthony Normile to the title in decency finals held on Saturday Twentieth October.

Michael Caines MBE, back and head judge said: “The quality of this year’s dispute was the highest we be blessed with seen in the nine time eon since it began.  The finals were extremely closely contested spawn some incredibly skillful chefs. Significance competition identifies some of loftiness most talented chefs in high-mindedness South West and highlights depiction quality of the region’s hospitality  industry.”

John Sheaves, chief only if, Taste of the West, added: “This is the only Southerly West regional competition allowing interpretation region’s professional chefs and bring in cooks to shine.  With birth opportunity to demonstrate their facility for our panel of book, a rare gathering of loftiness finest chefs in the Southerly West, the work of rectitude contestants is made easier converge the extensive availability of regionally produced ingredients of the extreme quality.”