{"id":33981,"date":"2012-07-02T00:19:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T22:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=33981"},"modified":"2012-07-03T20:43:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T18:43:32","slug":"masterchef-sa-episode-16-who-will-be-booted-out-win-with-the-restaurant-at-grand-provence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/franschhoek\/masterchef-sa-episode-16-who-will-be-booted-out-win-with-the-restaurant-at-grand-provence\/","title":{"rendered":"MasterChef SA episode 16: Who will be booted out? Win with The Restaurant at Grand Provence!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>MasterChef SA is the talk of the country, and we have only 3 more gripping episodes to look forward to in this season 1. To spice things up a little, we have launched two competitions, the\u00a0first being a prediction of who will win MasterChef SA in episode 18<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We are also running the last of a weekly lucky draw for the correct prediction of who will be booted out of MasterChef SA every week. For the correct prediction of who will leave MasterChef SA in episode 16 on Tuesday (3 July),\u00a0Grande Provence<\/strong> has generously offered a 3-course restaurant voucher for two, to the value of R600, to the winner.<\/p>\n

Darren Badenhorst is the new Executive Chef at Grande Provence. \u00a0He left school in Durban to study marketing, but gave up after a year, because\u00a0he realised that his passion lay in cooking. He enrolled at the Christina Martin School of Food and Wine, the most prominent culinary school in KwaZulu-Natal, where he did a one year intensive, \u2018extremely strenuous\u2019,<\/em> diploma course. \u00a0From there he went to the Benguerra Lodge in Mozambique as Executive Chef, but his stay was short-lived, having to evacuate the island after the worst ever cyclone to hit Africa destroyed most buildings on the island. He was appointed at Zimbali Boutique Hotel as Chef de Partie. He then moved to Eat Me Gourmet Caf\u00e9, a private contract catering company, and to Three Cities\u2018 One on One Events catering company, promoted to Executive Chef. \u00a0\"\"<\/a>Feeling that he had reached a glass ceiling, he moved to the Cape, and joined Gregory Czarnecki\u00a0at Waterkloof. In this time he met Grande Provence Chef Darren Roberts at one of the magnificent\u00a0Big Five Multiple Sclerosis charity lunches<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>at which Waterkloof had participated.\u00a0He started at Grande Provence over a year ago, and has taken over from Chef Darren Roberts, who has taken up an appointment in the Seychelles.<\/p>\n

He sees the level of cuisine in the Cape to be far beyond that of any other region, and believes that competition between restaurants brings out the best in them, and is key to creating consistency. Flair and passion must show at all times. \u00a0He admires Neil Jewell for his charcuterie, there being no comparison, and Chef Margot Janse from Le Quartier Fran\u00e7ais, for her creativity and experimentation with the food that she prepares.\u00a0 Chef Darren Badenhorst says that he will not change the menu drastically, sticking to the fine dining French cuisine with an Asian twist.\u00a0 The quality will be the same, but he will add his stamp to it.\u00a0 He has a small team of six in the kitchen, which will grow next summer.\u00a0 He lives on the Grande Provence farm, and loves\"\"<\/a> his job, rarely taking time off.\u00a0 He likes to create dishes with balance, in texture and in colour. Coming from the Natal coast, he loves diving and spearfishing, and also therefore preparing seafood. His first new addition to the menu is a delicious soft shell crab starter on pan-fried sushi with sesame seed, with a soft boiled yolk presented in a beautifully crafted kataifi pastry, the colour coming from a red pepper aioli, and finished off with soya and wasabi pearls. \u00a0His\u00a0new Ballontine of Chicken with a bone marrow centre, truffle of pomme duchess,\u00a0\"\"<\/a>carrot and cardamom pure\u00e9, morel mushrooms, cracked black pepper, and fresh Japanese truffle, is an artistic portrait that could have been framed and hung in the Grande Provence Gallery!<\/p>\n

Karl Lambour, previously with Holden Manz and Constantia Glen, is the new GM of Grande Provence.<\/p>\n

Tweet your prediction of which of the 5<\/strong> remaining finalists<\/a> <\/strong>will be booted out of MasterChef SA to\u00a0@WhaleCottage, or write it as a comment to this blogpost.\u00a0Closing time for entries\u00a0is\u00a0Tuesday 3 July at 19h30,\u00a0at\u00a0the start of episode 16. \u00a0The winner will be contacted immediately after the show ends.\u00a0Should there be no correct entry received, the prize will go into the main prize for predicting the winner of MasterChef South Africa.<\/p>\n

POSTSCRIPT 3\/7<\/strong>: There was no winner of this prize tonight, as no one guessed that Lungile Nhlanhla would be sent home from MasterChef SA tonight. It will be packaged into the main competition prize for correctly guessing the winner of MasterChef SA.<\/p>\n

The Restaurant at Grande Provence,<\/strong> R45, Franschhoek. Tel (021) 876-8600. \u00a0www.grandeprovence.co.za<\/a> Twitter: @GrandeProvence \u00a0Monday – Sunday Lunch, Monday – Saturday Dinner.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio:\u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/a>Twitter:@WhaleCottage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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