30th Anniversary Dinner of New Zealand School of Food and Wine
Our Dinner to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the New Zealand School of Food and Wine & Alice Hay’s 21st birthday featured a menu designed by Chef Finn Gybel and prepared by Level 4 and Level 5 Diploma Chefs with the event designed and coordinated by Level 6 Diploma of Hospitality students under the guidance of Franck Laruelle.
A selection of canapés were served with Quartz Reef Blanc de Blanc 2017 from Bendigo in Central Otago.
The first entreé featured Smoked Salmon with fragrant petit salad, shoots, coriander & Finn’s special bread!
The second entrée of spinach and ricotta tortellini, handmade a few hours before, and served in a light tomato consommé
Rack of lamb with red wine jus was one option for the main - and served with seasonal vegetables including asparagus, new potatoes, beetroot and mushrooms.
The Vegetarian option was baked aubergine with beetroot & lemon beurre blanc. Seasonal vegetables: potatoes, leeks, broccolini, asparagus, mushrooms & beetroot
This dinner provided the perfect occasion to decant some fine wines from the Christchurch, pre-earthquake days.
Chateau Duhart-Milon (Lafite) 2002, Chateau Destieux 2000 from Bordeaux. The corks needed help.
Franck admires the cork from the Chateau Kirwan 2000.
Diploma of Hospitality students serve the entrée.
We then retired to the Viaduct Room for Celia's presentation and to share a selection of leading New Zealand Cheese. From Waikato Meyer Aged Gouda & Meyer Maasdam. Over the Moon Creamy Blue and Triple Cream Brie also from Waikato.
Cranky Goat Reginald from Marlborough with a layer of ash from burnt coconut husks under the white rind and savoured on Chef Finn's Fruit sourdough with currants, apricots & raisins.
To finish, we returned to the dining room for Marzipan cake à l’orange with toasted almonds & crunchy caramel, vanilla Cointreau infused segments of orange, Star Anise ice cream. This was paired with Pegasus Bay Aria 2023.
Lynn Williams, Ally Trengrove, Guy Wellwood, Matira Taikato, Willy Trengrove, Sue Sheldon, Stephanie Harris, Martin Keay, Catherine Bell, Donna Hoyle.
Alice's table: Luke, Eliza, Alice, Avalon, Kyle, Rose, Josie, Piper.
Oliver's Table: Emma, Ben, Oliver, Mikala, Freddie, Naketa, Daniel, Henry.
NZSFW table of Gerwin, Marlene, Reanna, Nic, Nicole, Jinnie, Jimmy, Tim, Olivia.
Juliet Hay, Tony Forsyth, Jane Walton, Canada Loucks, Joy Bates, Jeremy Dryden, Ralf Schmidt, Diana Hay.
Celia talked about her 3 working babies, all born in September, and slotting in to a hospitality life. Here pictured at Celia's MBA graduation in 1995 at the restaurant. L-R Sir Hamish Hay, Celia, Allan Hay, Lady Judith holding Oliver and June Hay. Two Hay families combined.
Alice's cot in Celia's office - with a monitor plugged in so we could hear when Alice woke...
