SriLankan Catering among best at Culinary Art

SriLankan Catering Services won 23 medals at the Culinary Art, Sri Lanka's foremost hospitality industry competition, proving that it is more than capable of competing among the best in the business.

SriLankan Catering, the inflight catering arm of the National Carrier, was placed among the top ten of companies at Culinary Art, winning six Gold, six Silver, and 11 Bronze medals.

The competition at the BMICH in Colombo drew 1,400 participants, mainly from Sri Lanka's hotel industry.

CEO of SriLankan Catering, Dilip Nijhawan, said: "It is a considerable achievement as an inflight catering company to distinguish itself and win such a high tally of medals in a hotel-oriented competition." SriLankan Catering has won a number of impressive global and local accolades recently.

These include two Silver Medals and a Bronze Medal at the recent Hong Kong International Culinary Classic; and a Mercury Award from the International Flight Catering Association.

At the last Culinary Art in 2005, SriLankan Catering won 11 medals. Production Manager at SriLankan Catering, Sudhish Pande, said: "This performance is all the more impressive because our team competed mainly in Live Cooking events, where they prepared dishes within a limited time in front of an international panel of judges, rather than in static displays."