Yesterday’s finals in the 9th edition of the Culinary Festival Bernard Loiseau did not by any means signify the end of this extraordinary and unique event at Constance Belle Mare Plage.
Gastrologik’s Jacob Holmstrom advises teammate Sandy Sokalingum
Lots of things are still happening, and the result of the competition is still a well-guarded secret. Everybody – except for the jury members, who deliberated yesterday afternoon – have to wait until Saturday evening to know the names of the winning team.
The 12 chefs involved in the competition haven’t had a lot of time to spend on the beautiful beach at Constance Belle Mare Plage or golfing on Constance’s two championship courses. The chefs are still in the kitchen cooking – preparing tonight’s Six Star Dinner at the Deer Hunter restaurant. This lavish event, where each Michelin star chef prepares one course, is offered to journalists and special invited guests and represents one of the gastronomical highlights of this incredible week of culinary cooking.
Yesterday’s finals are still on everybody’s minds, however, and speculations on the winning team are heard everywhere throughout the resort. Everyone seems to have turned into an experienced food critic overnight. At lunch at the pool side restaurant Indigo, our friendly waiter tells us that he believes that the British chef Tim Allen and his Mauritian partner Yogessen Ramen will win, but the sommelier disagrees: ‘I think that the team of Nicolas Masse from France and Sasha Dinnoo had the most beautiful dishes of the all,’ he says, adding that Jens Rittmeyer from Germany and his Sri Lankan team mate Dinushan Patabadage stand an outside chance to end on top of the podium Saturday evening.
I’m keeping my thoughts to myself for now. At any rate, except for the members of the jury, none of us has tasted the dishes – only seen them as presented yesterday afternoon. And as taste counts double in the four criteria used by the jury (looks, smell, colour…, creativity & originality…, proper use of imposed products…, taste) anybody’s guess is as good as mine.
With some free time on my hands, I played a round of golf at the Links course this morning, situated 10 minutes from the hotel by shuttle bus. The course was in great shape and turned out to be much more forgiving than the other Constance course, the Legend, which has water everywhere and is much tighter than the Links.
Article by Peter Bojesen of Luxury Aficionados.
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