A number of chefs from the Hilton Malta team participated in Malta Kulinarja, a cooking and culinary arts championship organised by the Malta Chef's Society and held at MFCC, Ta' Qali between 18 and 21 February.

Special praise goes to chef Noel Azzopardi who won Best Overall and Senior Chef of the year, Shawn Zammit who won Patisserie of the year and Gabriel Caruana who placed second as Junior Chef of the year.

Over 200 teams and individual competitors participated in the event which was split up into separate competitions for various cooking genres. The Hilton team placed gold, silver or bronze in the following categories: Cold platter static, Asian fusion dish, Entrée dish, Amuse Bouche, Warm and cold plated dessert, Vegetarian dish, Junior plated dessert, Local pork dish (junior and senior), Practical junior, Pasta dish (junior), Traditional Maltese dish (junior and senior), Mediterranean underutilized fish dish (junior and senior), three-course mystery box (senior) and Chef's Grand Prix.

All the winning teams who participated in the events were awarded the Tony Theuma Memorial Challenge Trophy named after the late Tony Theuma, former president of the MCFA and a pioneer in local culinary competitions.

 

About the Malta Chef's Society

The aim of the Malta Chef's Society is to stimulate greater interest and enhance higher standards in the culinary sector and to bring together chefs and other professionals, working, studying, or otherwise active in the catering industry, with the purpose of helping them further their knowledge and skills, and directly contribute towards the improvement in the quality and standards of the tourism industry in Malta and Gozo.