Chef a la Russe – the All-Russian annual Championship of professional chefs teams has been held since 2014. It’s founded by Russian National Culinary Association and Metro CC and endorsed by Worldchefs. The 4th Chef ala Russe takes place on April 4-6, 2017 during Metro Expo in Moscow, Crocus Exhibition Center. This event finalizes the Regional Qualifying Competitions and welcomes 30 teams competing in 10 kitchens in front of visitors. Each team consists of 2 chefs and 1 pastry-chef and they will prepare 3 courses National dinner within 90 minutes. Duck breast in starter, northern lake-white fish in main course as well as honey, cowberries and blackberries in desert are mandatory ingredients. Day 3 will be even more exciting because the best 9 teams will compete in a Super Final Black Box. Worlchefs approved judges are invited to chose the best team.
Rules, regulations, organisers can be found here.
April, 4
11:00 – 12:00
The grand opening of the championship.
12.00 – 15.00
Team competition in the category “National dinner.” The first semi-final.
14.30 – 16.00
Competition culinary college students in the “black box.”
16.00 – 18.00
The award ceremony the winning teams of the first day.
5th of April
9.30 – 12.30
Team competition in the category “National dinner.” The second semi-final.
13.00 – 16.00
Team competition in the category “National dinner.” The third semi-final.
17.00 – 18.00
The award ceremony the winning teams of the second day.
April 6
11.00 – 13.00
Grand final of the team competition. Team – winners of the qualifying days competing in the “black box.”
14.00 – 15.30
Award ceremony of the All-Russian Championship of Culinary Chef à la Russe.
The closing ceremony of the championship
The closing ceremony of the championship
JUDGES

Thomas Googler
/ GERMANY /
Worldchefs President

Gerdt Klottske
/ SWEDEN /
Chairman of the Committee on WACS competitions

Svetlana Ryshkov
/ LATVIA /
President of the Lithuanian Association of Cooks

Maria Shramko
/ ICELAND /
Olympic champion in 2016 Pastry Chef of the national team of Iceland

Viktor Belyaev
/ RUSSIA /
Chairman of the Jury, President of the National Association of Culinary Russia

Alexander Prokopovich
/ RUSSIA /
Coordinator Judge, Vice-President of the National Association of Culinary Russia

Tahir Amiraslanov
/ AZERBAIJAN /
President of Azerbaijan Culinary Association

Ivan Berezutskiy
/ RUSSIA /
Chef Twins, Wine & Crab
For more information please contact Alexander Prokopovich by email.