Regional finalists announced for Roux Scholarship 2011

22nd February 2011, 2:35pm

The 18 regional finalists for this year's Roux Scholarship competition have been unveiled.

Two regional heats will be held on Thursday 10th March at Birmingham College of Food and Thames Valley University, Ealing.

Competing in Birmingham:

Mark Birchall, LEnclume, Cartmel, Cumbria
Richard Edwards, Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa, Wiltshire
Viresh Singh, The Connaught Hotel, London
Carl Chappell, The Montagu Arms Hotel, Beaulieu, Hampshire
Frederic Aumeunier, Devonshire Arms Hotel & Spa, Skipton, N Yorks
Richard Cullen, The Spotgate Inn, Staffordshire
Judges will be Alain Roux, James Martin & Steve Love (Roux Scholar 1997)

Competing in London:

Andrew Wong, Bumbles Restaurant, London
Thomas Brockbank, Self employed working with Compass Group
Pramod Ghadge, Restaurant Associates, London
David White, Restaurant Associates, Barclays Wealth, London
Nick Whatmough, Restaurant Associates, Barclays Wealth, London
Matthew Whitfield, The Montagu Arms, Beaulieu, Hampshire
William Best, Wiltons Restaurant, London
Neven Vanderzee, Galvin At Windows, London
Matthew MacDonald, Vinoteca, London
Oliver Farrar, Haymarket Hotel, London
Quinton Bennett, Haymarket Hotel, London
Mark Berdin, UMU, London

Judges will be Michel Roux Jnr, Gary Rhodes, OBE, Brian Turner, CBE, David Nicholls & Andrew Fairlie.

Six winners across the two heats will go through to the national final, which takes place at Westminster Kingsway College, London.

Contestants will have 2.5 hrs to cook their dish as originally submitted along with a dessert from a list of mystery ingredients given to them on the day.

The judges will be looking for those recipes and methods, which demonstrate the best balance of creativity, taste style and practicality in the finished dish.

The 2011 Roux Scholarship winner will be announced at the Awards Ceremony at The Mandarin Oriental, Hyde Park London the same evening.

Michel Roux Jnr said: "We had a very high standard of entries, with a lot of Asian influenced recipes this year. Monkfish lends itself well to these flavours and Iʼm really looking forward to tasting the dishes."

Alain Roux added: "This year the techniques in the recipes are different, lots of new cooking styles, such as using vacuum pouches along side traditional methods. There are interesting combinations that are exciting and not too powerful so the fish can stand out as well as some more classical recipes."

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• 09 Jan 2012 - Chefs urged to enter 2012 Roux Scholarship competition
• 31 Mar 2011 - Alain Roux teams up with Eurostar to design premier dishes
• 15 Mar 2011 - Roux Scholarship 2011 – six regional finalists announced
• 19 Oct 2010 - The Roux Scholarship 2011 open for entries
• 07 Apr 2009 - Wiltshire chef wins Roux Scholarship
• 09 Mar 2009 - Final six chosen for Roux Scholarship 2009
• 16 Feb 2009 - Regional finalists for Roux Scholarship 2009
• 11 Mar 2008 - National finalists selected for Roux Scholarship
• 08 Feb 2008 - The Roux Scholarship regional finalists are out

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