David Wälti wins San Pellegrino Young Chef Swiss Final

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David Wälti wins San Pellegrino Young Chef Swiss Finale

The San Pellegrino Young Chef Contest Swiss Finale took place on 4^th September 2017 in Zurich and the winner was Daniel Wälti.

The Contest

The contest featured nine Swiss Chefs from all over Switzerland, and was acted out in two parts. First of all the chefs prepared their spectacular and delicious creations at Belvoirpark in front of the jury and then after a five course dinner at the Restaurant Sonnenberg high above Zurich, the winners were announced as follows:

The Winners

1st place: David Wälti, Souschef, Eisblume, Worb

2^nd place : Filipe Fonseca Pinheiro, Souschef, Restaurant de l’hôtel de Ville de Crissier B. Violer

3rd place : Marco Gaisser, Souschef, Restaurant Rias, Kloten

The Jury

The jury consisted of some very well known and illustrious chefs – André Jäger from Fischerzunft in Schaffhausen, Martin Dalsass from Talvo, Robert Speth from The Cheesery in Gstaad and Marcus Lindner from the Sonnenberg and the The Alpina Gstaad.

The Young Chefs Taking Part

The Chefs taking part in this competition were all from restaurants in Switzerland:

BENJAMIN LE MAGUET Sous Chef, ‘Le Maguet’ – Les Evouettes

DAVID WÄLTI Sous Chef, ‘Eisblume’ – Worb

DIEGO DELLA SCHIAVA ‘Sous Chef, ‘The View Hotel’ – Lugano

FILIPE FONSECA PINHEIRO Sous Chef, ‘Restaurant de L’Hotel de Ville de Crissier B. Violer’ – Crissier

JACO REDELINGHUYS Chef de Partie, ‘Maison Manesse’ – Zurich

KARIM ROBERT SCHUMANN Chef, ‘Hotel Vitznauerhof’ & ‘Waldhotel Davos’ – Vitznau

MARCO GAISSER Sous Chef, ‘Restaurant Rias’ – Kloten

NICOLAS PIERSON Sous Chef, ‘Bottle Brothers’ – Geneva

RODRIGO PARRACHO Chef de Partie, ‘Anne Sophie Pic at the Beau Rivage Palace Lausanne’ – Lausanne

Daniel Wälti will go on to represent Switzerland at the global Young Chef Competition 2018 on 22nd-23rd June in Milan and we wish him the best of luck! Only one chef representing each world area can attend the Grand Finale where the S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2018 will be announced.

The event took place in Zurich at the Restaurant Belvoirpark and the Restaurant Sonnenberg.

Restaurant Belvoirpark

Restaurant Sonnenberg

Address: Hitzigweg 15, 8032 Zürich

Phone: 044 266 97 97

Visit the Restaurant Sonnenberg website here

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All photos by Carmen Sirboiu and Christina Fryer

except for the photo of the winning dish which is courtesy of San Pellegrino

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