Pineapple festival Awards in Yeppoon

The festival of the pineapple has recently passed and as usual it was bigger and better than the previous year. Not that I get too involved with the whole festival thing. I am generally too busy to even contemplate a visit to the event. But once again Beaches Restaurant picked up an award. Brian Dorey gave me the call to inform us of the presentation.

This award even though it goes to the establishment was one by young apprentice Matthew Gavel, now at Megalomania. It was his creation and cooking that achieved the award. So well done to him. Maybe the award should go to the chef and not the establishment. So that now makes it five years running that one of my chefs, myself included have picked up an award. Congratulations to Megalomania & Zilzie Bay on taking out the main prize, shame they just can’t help but share it. The Judges said that the entries were up 50%, maybe due to the new restaurants opening!

On the theme of the Pineapple check this one out. Monica is holding a 5.2KG pineapple a few months back, I saved the photo especially for this post. Surprisingly it tasted great, and it made plenty of fruit salad for the wedding buffet.

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