Photo: EthicOcean | Yannick Billioux
The culinary competition Olivier Roellinger challenges chefs and floor staff to choose for sustainable fish and correctly inform their customers about it. The competition is open to young chefs, students at catering schools, and floor staff in training. The idea of the competition is to choose consciously for sustainable seafood and so contribute to ocean conservation. Candidates can submit their creation until 8 January 2024. VLIZ is a partner in the competition and hopes to see a lot of participants from Belgium and The Netherlands taking part!
The culinary competition Olivier Roellinger is open to young chefs (under 35) and students in a catering training in a European country. Please indicate in which category you wish to participate: as a young professional chef, as a chef-in-training or as a waiter-in-training. You can participate in English, French or Spanish.
Chefs and chefs-in-training must create two recipes using sustainable seafood, and prepare for practical tests and an oral presentation about their sustainable choices. Trainee waiters compete in a separate competition category. In addition to four practical tests, they must prepare for an oral presentation about the sustainable fish on the menu.
The brochure with the general presentation of the competition, rules and prizes can be found in English, Dutch, French or Spanish.
Selected candidates within the 'professional chefs' category prepare and defend their recipes at the Ferrandi Paris hotel school on 14 May 2024. Selected students from northern and western Europe will present their skills and knowledge at Yvon Bourges hotel school in Dinard (France) on 10 and 11 April 2024. Room staff tests for students from all over Europe will also take place during this two-day event. Chefs-in-training from Southern and Eastern Europe will take their tests on 30 April and 1 May 2024 at hotel school Le Monde in the Greek capital Athens.
Are you a young hospitality professional interested in taking part in this great adventure? Then contact lead organiser Ethic Ocean (concours@ethic-ocean.org) today to obtain instructions and registration form.
Originally French, the Olivier Roellinger culinary competition has been organised on a European scale since 2016 and is open to candidates from all European countries. Winners and former winners remain part of the ever-growing team of committed European chefs and seafood professionals, becoming true ambassadors for ocean conservation. Inspiring! And maybe there will be a Belgian winner again?
More information (images, winners and prizes) on this and previous editions of the Olivier Roellinger culinary competition can be found on the Ethic Ocean's website and their social media channels.
Ethic Ocean (www.ethic-ocean.org) is now organising this competition for the 14th year in a row. They are supported by French fish chef Olivier Roellinger and many European partners. This includes the Flemish Institute for the Sea (VLIZ) in Belgium. Meanwhile, the competition concept has already been adopted in Canada, China and Japan.