BCF Junior Team
England - La Parade des Chefs Champions 2015!
The
Hospitality Show is the UK’s largest foodservice and hospitality show in the
U.K. and consistently attracts an audience of nationwide senior decision
makers, all eager to do business. The Hospitality Show is the must-attend event
for any chef, hotelier, restaurateur, publican, café or deli owner looking for
new products and ideas for their business. The show incorporates the British
Cookery Championships which is one of the largest cookery contest of its kind,
attracting teams of chefs from all over the United Kingdom.
Please find
enclosed photo from the day.
The La
Parade des Chefs is the renowned fine dining experience at the heart of The
Hospitality Show. 2015 sees a brand new Junior Team Talent event. Teams of five
juniors and one senior head chef operated a high spec kitchen and provided
three-course meals for 100 covers during the show. The three course dining
experience is run under competition rules. Under the guidance of Chef Mathew
Shropshall the BCF Junior Team England Manager was successful in the paper
judging round to gain only 1 of three places in the final beating every other
college or University in the Country.
The team
menu:
Starter
Pan-fried farmed halibut, crab ‘bon-bon’,
pickled onion, radish and cucumber, Romanesco puree, seaweed crumb, dill
velouté
Main Course
Peppered venison loin, pommes Anna, fennel and
ginger, wilted greens, wild mushrooms, lamb’s sweetbreads, Port and rosemary
jus
Dessert
Valrhona orange chocolate mousse, orange jelly,
blood orange sorbet, chocolate soil, crème anglaise, caramel wafer
The result
Wednesday supports the great job everyone does at UCB in educating young chefs
of tomorrow, also highlighting the standard in which the Grade 1 organisation
teaches at!
The Team:
Junior Team
England Manager Chef Mathew Shropshall
Junior Team
England Chef Edward Marsh
Junior Team
England Chef Jack Gameson
Chef
Michael West
Junior Team
England Chef Luke Duccia
Chef Anna
Claringbull
Kitchen
Porter/Chef Nathan Lane
The BCF
Junior Team England Team competed against the Compass Group Culinary Team &
U.K. Combined Services Junior Culinary Arts Team for the prestigious title and
after feeding 100 covers took the title receiving Gold Medal and Best in Class
award for the whole event.
Quote:
Junior Team England Manager Chef Mathew Shropshall
"The
five student chefs and 1 kitchen porter are an Inspiration to any young person
looking for a career in the hospitality industry! I’m so proud to be involved
and watch these talented chefs develop and move forward with their careers, it
has been an honour to mentor them through the competition, being the first Chef
lecturer to bring back to UCB gold Medal, Best in class at La Parade des chefs
is very important and a real honour, all the students hard work paid off. The
current BCF Young Chefs Academy is proving to support and develop young chefs
of tomorrow!
Quote:
Junior Team England Chef Jack Gameson, Former Savoy Trust Young Chefs Academy
Student
"Amazing
day, I learnt and experienced new skills, taking away some brilliant
memories!"
This was a
great achievement for Junior Team England being the highest award to date
in a culinary competition, the next big competition will see the team compete
in Eurfurt, Germany in 2016, before then is plenty of practicing.
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