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Al Bustan Rotana Dubai chefs dominate Junior Chef Awards 2008

  • United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, July 08 - 2008 at 10:13
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The Al Bustan Rotana Dubai's excellent roster of junior chefs dominated the recently concluded Junior Chef Awards 2008 by winning sixteen (16) medals out of sixteen (16) entries and bagging the much coveted Best Junior Pastry Chef award.

Junior Chef Awards, a highlight of the Dubai Summer Surprises festival, was conceptualized to be a prestigious competition to recognize culinary talent in Dubai.

Master Chefs from all over the world judged the finest presentations prepared by hundreds of young competing chefs from the biggest hotels and restaurants in a 7 day competition at the Time Square Centre last week.

Chef Christophe Prudhomme, Executive Chef of the Al Bustan Rotana Dubai highlighted, "We participated in 11 categories and the result was outstanding with each of our competing chefs winning an award in all the categories we participated in."

Al Bustan Rotana Dubai's culinary representatives impressed the judges with their skills and talent which resulted to 4 gold, 8 silver and 4 bronze medals. Indika Perera stood out among his competitors and won the prestigious Best Junior Pastry Chef in the UAE Award. Other awardees from the hotel include Ranjan Bargage, Anees Mundassery, Indika Sampath, Mihira Merenta and Athula Kumara.

"We take pride in these recognitions given to our chefs at the Junior Chef Awards. These awards are great manifestations of the skills possessed by Al Bustan Rotana's chefs. It just goes to show how rich the culinary talent is in our hotel and we take it as a challenge to improve this talent further and produce the best chefs in the city,"


commented Detlef Winter, General Manager of the Al Bustan Rotana Dubai.
From left to right: Chef Christophe Prudhomme, Excutive Chef of the Al Bustan Rotana Dubai, the winning chefs, and Mr. Detlef Winter, General Manager of the Al Bustan Rotana Dubai. 
From left to right: Chef Christophe Prudhomme, Excutive Chef of the Al Bustan Rotana Dubai, the winning chefs, and Mr. Detlef Winter, General Manager of the Al Bustan Rotana Dubai.
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