Tag Archives: Grand Finale

Chef Callan Austin wins international 2019 – 2021 S. Pellegrino Young Chef Academy Award Young Chef Award for Social Responsibilty, only SA winner!

 

Chef Callan Austin of Chefs Warehouse Tintswalo won the S.Pellegrino Young Chef Award for Social Responsibility at the Grand Finale of the S. Pellegrino Young Chef Academy Competition  2019 – 2021 in Milan this past weekend. His dish was named ‘The Ghost Net’.

Chef Paul Prinsloo was a Finalist in the Young Chef Academy Award, one of ten chefs. The overall winner was Chef  Jerome Ianmark Calayag, representing the UK and Northern Europe.

Chef Marcus Gericke is the Head Chef at Le Coin Français in Franschhoek, and  was a Finalist in the Fine Dining Lovers Food for Thought Award 2021 for his ‘Remembrance’ dish of a Quail consommé. Continue reading →

Nederburg Sweet and V&A Waterfront Sour Service Awards

The Sweet Service Award  goes to Nederburg, for hosting a season of wonderful monthly Sunday evening concerts, crowned by the Grand Finale last Sunday.  A concert with the vivacious soprano Zanne Stapelberg and her colleague Minette du Toit-Pearce was followed by a three course meal in the red wine cellar, creating a most romantic atmosphere, and was a lovely way in which music lovers could get to meet and chat to each other.

 

The Sour Service Award goes to the V&A Waterfront, for allowing smokers, mainly being staff of the shops, to smoke in the enclosed parking garage on both the Woolworths and the Pick ‘n Pay sides of the shopping centre.  The security guards seem very loath to take action, as it appears to be a regular practice. 

 

 

The WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog.  Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at info@whalecottage.com.   Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the WhaleTales newsletters on the www.whalecottage.com website.