Malta Kulinarja Cookery & Culinary Arts Championship 2020: the winners

The Malta Kulinarja Cookery & Culinary Arts Championship 2020 just finished and it looks like it was bigger and better than ever. Every two years, a large amount of prestigious restaurants and chefs compete by creating dishes to win the award for their chosen categories. Tons of visually stunning dishes were involved!
 
Last night (Jan 31st), the results were in and the awards were handed out during the gala ceremony organised by the Malta Chef's Society. Overall, there were 230 accolades, 33 categories and 20 trophies up for grabs.



Photo credit: Daniel Curmi/Facebook

Although all the participants are of talent and deserve an applaud for their culinary works of art, some of the big winners of the night were:

1. Jerome Muscat, The Hilton - Junior Chef of the Year
2. Noel Azzopardi, self employed - Senior Chef of the Year 
3. Ramla Bay Resort - Parade des Chefs
4. Sheldon Sammut, Rosselli AX - Overall Best Junior Chef 




Just some of the other medal collectors included Predescu Aura from the Ramla Resort's pastry team who won Silver & Best in Class for Vegan Desserts, Rosselli's kitchen scooped up Best in Class for Cook & Serve, Tyrone Mizzi and Carlos Buttigieg (head and sous chef of Bahia) who received Silver  for Chopped Team of Two, and Kieran Borg, of Grotto Tavern, winning Bronze for Junior First Course Dishes. 

The Phoenicia Hotel won a number of awards including Silver for Junior Pasta Dish, The Vegan Challenge and for the Street Food section. Chris Borg of San Remo nabbed a Silver medal for Senior Local Pork Dish. The list really does go on!





ITS students racked up medals for Junior Local Pork Dish (Silver), Junior Pastry Challenge (Silver) and Amuse Bouche (Silver & Best in Class), to name a few.

Congrats to all those involved!