If your preference is for the hot kitchen you are following a grand old tradition. The hot kitchen holds many challenges and for those that persevere holds many rewards. Not an easy path, but one that has great scope for creativity in multiple ways. You will, of course, be called upon from time to time […]
Distell Inter Hotel Challenge PASTRY CHEFS
We are so proud of our Pastry Chefs who have joined us this year in spite of daunting odds. They will be producing, we are sure, exquisite entries for some equally fabulous prizes! This year, we held two of the four planned ‘Distell Inter Hotel Challenge 2020 Press Launches’ in March, one at The Palazzo […]
Anyone for Coffee?
Our very first year that we’ve introduced the Barista category in the One&Only Reaching for Young Stars competition and it has been a learning curve for everyone! Happy to say it was very well received that Avanti Coffee Company put together a most comprehensive curriculum for the team to follow and everyone was very enthusiastic […]
One&Only Reaching for Young Stars 2020
Each year our young enthusiastic candidates play their hot pianos as they prepare their entries in a hushed glass-enclosed kitchen at the International Hotel School, home to the competition. Here they are at it, as precious time ticks by, ready for the first starter plate to be called for on the dot of 12h00! CHEF […]
The Pastry Chefs Rising High
Cakes, pastries and desserts are the creative sides to cooking. Patisserie is an exquisite art form that can provide great satisfaction to the fortunate possessors of an artistic streak. It is rare to find chefs able to master both the hot kitchen and patisserie. There is no doubt that making patisserie your lifetime’s career will […]
The Bakers are on top form!
The feedback from the judges was superb with the many years of experience shared to all. Jac Kolver, Product Developer: Bakery & Market Bakery, Woolworths Foods, Lorraine Meaney, Head Pastry Chef, Cape Grace and Kyle Hickman, Executive Sous Chef, One&Only Cape Town giving a thorough run-through for every entry, providing a huge learning curve, which […]
Meet the Young Stars
The One&Only Reaching for Young Stars 2020 Candidates, all highly motivated; Bakers, Baristas, Hot Chefs and Pastry Chefs pulled out all the stops to succeed! ABDUL MU-EED SLAMDIEN “I am from the Southern Suburbs in Cape Town and attend the International Hotel School. I started at IHS after training as a pilot when I wanted […]
One&Only Reaching for Young Stars 2020
It is this time of year again, only this year has to be different! The essentials are all there and in place with a virtual Launch Workshop for the One&Only Reaching for Young Stars 2020. Of course, this is a most significant year, our 10th at our home, the One&One Cape Town, where we have […]
SKILLS EXCHANGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME Continued…
The Truffle Guru of South Africa A Truffle Gerfuffel! The Black Périgord Truffle is the legendary culinary black diamond of the kitchen – Tuber melanosporum – we have long read about in European magazines and associate it with the good life of champagne, caviar and a luxe lifestyle. Ah, the good life! Volker Miros, […]
FORMIDABLE ACHIEVEMENTS
Woman’s Day celebrates the formidable achievements of women. Today, it is fitting to feature enterprising and accomplished women in wine including a master distiller in an industry that has spanned centuries in the Cape, all of whom have triumphed in what was originally a definite male preserve. Remarkable Marlene Bester has been with Van Ryn’s […]