The executive pastry chef of Melbourne's Hotel Windsor has been busy filming a segment for the international series Chefs of the Great Hotels of the World.
The series featuring the Hotel Windsor's Nigel Braithwaite will be televised in the US, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australia later this year.
The Hotel Windsor is the only Australian hotel to appear in the latest series, which is featuring the great chefs from 26 of the leading five-star hotels from around the world.
Other hotels featured in the latest of the series, now seen in over 40 countries around the world, include properties such as the Hotel Excelsior in Rome, the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, the Grand Hotel Europe in St Petersburg, and Raffles Hotel in Singapore. Braithwaite--who was formerly with the renowned Savoy Hotel in London--trained in Paris at the Ecole Lenotre, and specialises in chocolate and sugar work as well as the design and preparation of hot and cold desserts, cakes and petit fours.
In Melbourne he took the television crew to the Gentle Annie's berry farm near Lorne, one of his selected local fresh produce suppliers, and was filmed sharing tips for making pastry, dessert decorations, and dessert dishes such as a fresh strawberry tart accompanied by a warm chocolate sauce. The Hotel Windsor's chocolate fountain, a centrepiece of its famous weekend afternoon teas, also featured in the filming.
David Perry, CEO of the Hotel Windsor, which this year celebrates its 125th anniversary this year, said it was an honour for the hotel to be chosen to feature in the series, "particularly in an important anniversary year". "And it is also good to see that through this Melbourne will also be highlighted."
Chefs of the Great Hotels of the World producer, Ron Brown, of Forte Communications, said a chef of Braithwaite's reputation would be highly regarded by international audiences. "The Hotel Windsor is truly one of Australia's great hotels, and this is reflected in its ambience and service and, importantly, its food and traditions such as its famous afternoon teas," . We are very pleased to feature the Hotel Windsor in a series now seen in over 40 countries around the world"