Windstar Chef Wins Award In Bacardi Bartender & Chef Cruise Competition
Jan 24, 2007
Seattle, WA, January 24, 2007 —Windstar Cruises’ Chef Daryl Neamtu has won the 2nd Annual BACARDI Bartender & Chef Cruise Competition. His winning vegetarian recipe of beluga lentil and basmati rice cake with sautéed spinach and citrus poached carrots in a Bombay Sapphire gin butter sauce will soon be served on board all three Windstar ships.
“We congratulate Daryl for his initiative in creating such an inventive and delicious vegetarian recipe,” says Diane Moore, Windstar’s vice president of marketing and sales. “His creativity is an asset to the company and I am sure our guests’ palates will appreciate his superb skills.”
Chef Neamtu will travel to Miami for an awards gala on March 1 at The Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove to be recognized for his achievement. He will receive a 0 cash scholarship for independent study from the Marine Hotel Association which sponsors the contest in cooperation with Bacardi Global Brands Ltd.
The competition encourages cruise and ferry line chefs and bartenders to create new cocktails and entrées using Bacardi’s line of products. Chef Neamtu’s winning vegetarian recipe was chosen out of hundreds of entries by Johnson & Wales University, the official culinary judges for the competition.
Since 1994, Windstar Cruises has partnered with acclaimed celebrity chef Joachim Splichal of the Patina Group. Splichal recently created 100 new Signature Cuisine recipes for Windstar bringing the total to over 380 innovative recipes for all three ships. The Restaurant is an inviting environment where guests dine when and with whom they wish in a single, open-seating with place settings of elegant Rosenthal china and Riedel stemware.
Degrees, Wind Surf’s alternative restaurant, features a steak house menu created by Chef Joachim Splichal four nights a week and menus from Northern Italy, France and Indonesia other evenings. Degrees has been redecorated with a new burgundy color scheme, Rosenthal china and Schott Zwiesel stemware. Reservations are required but there is no additional charge to dine at Degrees.
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