Featured Student Chefs Gallery

Y13 BTEC Pop Up Restaurant – Niam

On Tuesday 24th April the Y13 BTEC Hospitality students opened their pop up restaurant for one night only, which they called Niam! This was for their final unit where they have to plan, organised and run a catered vent. they decided to open an East meets West fusion restaurant to celebrate Island School moving to Sha Tin Wai. All the menu incorporated European syles  with local Asian ingredients. There was a total of 63 paying guest at the evening and the feedback from them was superb. The Y12 Hospitality student were the waiting staff for the event, which they counts towards their customer service unit. all the students should be extreme;y proud of themselves for pulling off such a high quality fine dining event. Many thanks to everyone who came and supported the event, it was great to have so many people there.    

ESF Island School Final Senior Winner – Jennifer Frawley

In Friday 20th April, the three senior finalist competed in the Island School final. The had the brief of Modernized street food, which gave them a wide scope to be creative and take inspiration from different cuisines. The students had two hour to produce a main course and dessert and they were being judged on the creativity, skills, presentation and taste of the dishes.   In Third place was Natalie Wong (12F), who made a Mexican inspired menu of a deconstructed pork taco and carnal flan. Second was Natasha Wang (12W), who made a Won ton and Noodle Main course and the then a Fortune cookie croque en bouch with creamy mousse, This year winner was Jennifer Frawley (12F), who made Fish made with a batter flavoured with hot cheetos, chips and curry sauce and then a Filipino dessert of a fruit filled spring roll with Banana ice cream. She will now be representing the school at the vESF final on 25th May at South Island School. Many thanks to the judges, Mrv Loggie, Mr Roper, Mr Pawlyn, Ms Law and Ethan Li and to the PTA, who donated the prizes of a selection of kitchen utensils

Homemade Pasta – Chefs of the week (Erika and Christy)

Homemade3 pasta week is one of the most challanging and tiring lessons in the Lord’s kitchen Elements. Students could make any sauce to accompaqny their pasta and then are givingf a real work out doinbg the rolling with the pasta machine and  some students even made filled raviolis. However Erika dn Christy were awarded Chef of the week for their perfectly presented spinach and mushroom tagliatelle, as they worked the most effectively as team to make it.

Eggs Benedict Challenge – Chefs of the Week (Jessica and Natalie)

Well doen to Jessic and Natalie, who were awarded Chef’s of the Week in Lord’s Kitchen Elements for their restaurant standard Eggs Benedict, they collaborated well and paid particular attention to detail to make this dish and show off their Hollandaise sauce making and egg poaching skills. Already looking forwad to next weeks homemade pasta and sauce dishes.

Island School ESF Cshef competition 1st round (Senior) – Winner Jennifer Frawley (12F)

The ESF chef competition got of to a great start at Island school at Island school on Friday, with 2 competitors from all six houses being put through their culinary paces with a creative  challenge. Students took in in turns to pick from either cooking chicken or salmon or hallouni, then had a range of carbohydrates and vegetables to pick from. They then had one hour to create a dish to present to the judges. The standard was extremely high and with only 6 places in second round, so was the tension. After much deliberating the scores were in and Jenifer Frawley wasbnamed the winner with her sweet and sour creation. The final placings of students going through to the next round were’ 6th Adeline Tam (N) 5th Natalie Leung (W) 4th Natasha Wang (W) 3rd Natalie Wong (F) 2nd Ritika Sadarangani (R) 1st Jennifer Frawley (F) Well done to all the students who took part and represented their house.