Woodlands Hotel &
Resort’s bartender shows off his skills, accompanied by the hotel’s Miss
Bartender, during the press conference announcing this year’s Pattaya
Bartender Competition Aug. 28.
Warunya Thongrod
Hotel food and beverage employees across the region will compete for
cash and fame in the Pattaya Bartender Competition Aug. 28.
The competition is not only for bartenders, though, as it actually
offers contests in a broad range of F&B skills, from fruit carving to
table setting to ice carving.
Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome and Thai Hotels Association Eastern Region
President Bundarik Kusolvitya announced the event with Food & Beverage
Association executives July 17 at Central Festival Pattaya Beach. To be
held at the Dusit Thani Hotel, the competition this year is themed “Luk
Thung Hi-So,” using the phrase with which Thais refer to high-society
mixed-race Thais.
In line with its bartender moniker, the contest features the classic
cocktails and “flair” mixing competition, and a “Ms. Bartender” contest
for women. Other events cover “Roman high tea,” ice carving, wedding
dinner table setup, wedding bouquet flower decoration, wedding cakes,
and wedding cocktail/canapé fruit carving. Top prizes total up to 20,000
baht.
Bundarik noted the competition has been taking place for 20 years and
has proved very popular, as well as successful in pushing F&B workers to
improve their skills.
