Juttaporn Daosawa and Suphat Kanongphat
from the Dusit Thani Pattaya accept the winning award in the ‘Wedding
Cocktail /Canapé & Fruit Carving’ competition from Attapol Wannakij,
director of TAT Pattaya Office.
Phasakorn Channgam
The Dusit Thani Hotel showed off the best of its food and beverage
skills to take 8 top honors at the recently held Pattaya Bartender
Competition.
The winning drink mixers and chefs won 8,000 baht each in the Aug. 28
contest hosted at the Dusit’s Napalai Convention center, beating out the
Zign Hotel and Long Beach Garden Hotel & Spa for the most number of top
awards collected.
Pattaya City Councilman Rattanachai Sutidechanai opened the popular annual
bartender challenge, which featured contests in a broad range of F&B skills,
from fruit carving to table setting to ice carving, and of course drink
mixing.
A full slate of local political and tourism-industry officials were on hand
for the event, which was capped off by an evening “luk thung,” or country,
party in which guests dressed in traditional Thai country costumes. Pattaya
spokeswoman Yuwida Jeerapan stole the show, dressed as a classic luk thung
singer when she dueted with Thachaya “Keng” Prathumwan, winner of The Voice
Thailand television talent contest.
Pattaya spokeswoman Yuwida
Jeerapan all dressed up for the “luk thung” party.
The competition, which carried the theme “Luk Thung
Hi-So,” featured the classic cocktails and “flair” mixing competition, and a
“Ms. Bartender” contest for women. Other events covered “romantic high tea,”
ice carving, wedding dinner table setup, wedding bouquet flower decoration,
wedding cakes, and wedding cocktail/canapé fruit carving.
The Long Beach Garden’s Analtachai Meenopkij won the headlined “classic”
bartender competition over Itthiphol Sangh-ngen of the A-One Royal Cruise
Hotel and Mai Worayotha from the Zign.
Vichan Fuangsuwan from the Zign took first in the “flair” bartender
category, followed by Dao Thiempa from Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort and
Theerachai Khemvichai from the Long Beach Garden.
The Dusit Thani took first place in the wedding cocktail/canapé-fruit
carving contest, with the Tsix5 Hotel taking second and Woodlands Hotel &
Resort third.
The Dusit also won first in the wedding freestyle competition. The Long
Beach Garden won second and Zign third.
The Long Beach Garden came out on top in the wedding bouquet and wedding
cake contests with the Zign finishing second and Dusit third in the bouquet
category; and Woodlands and Dusit taking second and third in the cake
competition.
A proud Chatchawal
Suphachayanont, general manager of Dusit Thani Hotel Pattaya (standing rear
center), poses with his management and winning F&B staff members following
the conclusion of this year’s Bartender Competition.
The Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort also won two first
place prizes for wedding table setup and romantic high tea. The Dusit Thani
took second in both while the Long Beach Garden took third for table setup
and the Zign third for high tea.
Finally, for ice carving, teams from the Amari Orchid Resort & Tower won
both first and third with the Dusit Thani taking second.
This annual event, put together by Pattaya City Hall, Thai Hotels
Association Eastern Chapter and the F&B Association is one of the most
anticipated competitions in Pattaya in which F&B staff from every contending
hotel are given the opportunity to compete and showcase their talents in
their respective professional fields.
Anantachai Meenopakij from Long
Beach Garden Hotel & Spa accepts the winning award in ‘Classic’ Bartender
category from Banjobg Banthunprayukt, a member of Pattaya city council.
Dao Thiempa from Centara Grand
Mirage (left) was the only woman in the ‘Flair’ Bartender contest and took
first place together with the 8,000 baht prize.
The top three in the ‘Flower
Decoration Wedding Freestyle’ category pose on stage.
Participants from the 10 teams
in ‘Miss Pattaya Bartender’ event pose on stage with Pattaya city mayor,
Ittipol Kunplome.
