Good Food Dining News
Food competition delivers double winner
THE county’s longest-running cookery competition for young people reached a dramatic finale when Alice Browning (14) from Walderslade Girls’ School clinched the senior title in a live cook off. The event, created by Produced in
Kent, took place at K College, Tonbridge, and saw Alice succeed to the overall title, having previously won the junior category in 2009. The junior title was won by Phoebe Icke (11) from Ashford School.
Alice impressed the judges, who included celebrity chef and Kent restaurateur Richard Phillips, with her “novel and technically outstanding” recipe for tea-smoked quail in apricot and ginger glaze, with a quail’s egg pasta stack and braised lentils. Commenting on her third final and
second win, Alice said: “Kent Young Chef Award has been an amazing grounding for me with my ambition to become a professional chef one day and it has been an incredible three-year
experience. I’m absolutely buzzing about my second win. “Being part of this great competition has helped me
know I’m on the right path and confirms that this is the career for me.”
The other junior
competitors included Thomas Perkins (last year’s junior winner) from Holmesdale Technology College, Snodland, and Hana Davis from Ashford School. Charlotte Seaman from St Saviour’s School at Westgate-on-Sea was the youngest competitor ever to take part in the competition. Richard Phillips said: “It’s been astonishing and amazing to
see the level of skills demonstrated during the final. The bar just keeps on rising, which is so exciting to see.”
Fire damaged fish shop re-opens
A FISH and chip restaurant in Ditton has re-opened – 18 months after being destroyed by fire.
Papa’s Top Quality Fish & Chips, also this year celebrates its 20th anniversary since taking over a former farm shop in London Road.
Owners Michael and Theo Papa-Adams have now brought the popular takeaway and restaurant back into business, having made improvements to the cooking facilities, seating layouts for diners and toilet arrangements in the rebuild.
A taste of Portugal
PAUL Almeida has spearheaded the opening of a Portuguese restaurant in Maidstone.
Café Mundo, at 75 Tonbridge Road, offers breakfast, snacks and a tapas bar daily from 7.30am and 6pm.
P J’S Farm Shop Seasonal vegetables/salads Vegetable box’s made to order & delivered locally
Local fruit Free range eggs C W Parkers & Son fine cheese’s, ham, bacon etc Korkers sausages Clearly juice
Kentish made pies Meat from East Sutton Park Milk/cream/yoghurts from Hinxden Dairy
Marmalades, Chutneys, Jams, Pickles & Salad Dressings, Local honey Grumpy Mule coffee’s, Locally baked bread, Vegetable Plants,
Bedding Plants & Hanging Baskets, Sweet peas & seasonal cut flowers, Hand made crafts
Orchard Place, Heniker Lane, Sutton Valence, Kent. ME17 3ED (We are behind the Total Garage on the main road to Headcorn)
Tel :- 01622 840272 / 07984623424 Open Monday – Saturday 8.30 – 5pm and Sunday 10am – 4pm 22 Mid Kent Living
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