THREE talented chefs from Northwich have served a three-course menu, consisting of their own dishes, to diners at Nunsmere Hall Hotel.

Chloe Palmer, 15, of The County High School Leftwich and Liam Kearns, 14, and Emma Nasralla, also 14, both of St Nicholas Catholic High School, were awarded first place in the Rotary Club of Northwich’s Young Chef of the Year competition.

As a result, the Year Nine pupils had the opportunity to showcase their dishes by overseeing progress in the kitchen and helping to wait-on in the hotel’s main dining room.

Chloe created a salmon salsa, Liam focussed on a main course of lemon chicken and Emma provided a sweet finish to the meal with her Eton mess dessert.

Michael Melville, organiser of the event and member of the Rotary Club of Northwich, said that in the 20-year history of the young chef competition, one local youngster has been appointed chef at the Savoy Hotel, in London, and another is now working at a hotel in Hong Kong.

The judges were Mark Huntley, hotel manager at Nunsmere and head chef Craig Malone.