Silver win for Sundial Chef

16 Jun 2008

Chef de Partie at Highgate House - Andrew Walmsley was named runner up in the IACC / CCE 'Chef of the Year' competition walking away with a silver award.

The event involved arrival, set up and then two hours to prepare a three course conference menu. Andrew's bill of fare included a starter of 'Seared Gravadlax of Salmon', a main of 'Pot Roasted Loin of Pork' and his Chocolate Bourbon dessert narrowl missed out on being awarded the top prize in its category.

The Chefs' Challenge invites entries from the 37 members of the CCE consortium of specialist conference venues, and from members of IACC, the International Association of Conference Centres. Now in its tenth year, it is a showcase for many of the conference industry's top talents - its winners regularly go on to achieve further national and international competition success. Finalists are selected on the basis of menus submitted on paper, and then compete in an ‘against the clock' cook-off at South Warwickshire College.