CWA student Lauren Smith has whisked away the competition, in the local heat of Young Chef of the Year. Lauren, 17 from Gayton, who is studying Professional Cookery at CWA, wowed judges with her culinary skills at the competition, held at the College’s own Vancouver Restaurant. The Rotary Young Chef Competition is a well-established and successful competition organised and promoted by Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland. It is a four stage national competition to support and encourage development of cookery skills. The competition is open to all students in full time education between ages 11 and 17 on 31 August 2014. The competition was judged by local food heroes Les Philp, owner of Grants restaurant in Norfolk Street and Colin Rushmore who is now retired after spending many years running his own establishments. Both praised the work of the students and the high standard of cooking that the entrants who are on the Level 2 Professional Cookery course had shown. Entrants were required to prepare a three course healthy meal comprising  starter, main course and dessert for two people costing less than £15, within two hours. Lauren’s winning three course menu was Thai style mussels, Pan-fried fillet of sea bream with carrot and avocado salad, Filo stuffed pear with chocolate sauce. Lauren was presented the Matthew Hunt Memorial Trophy and a £30 book token, by Trinity Rotary Club of King’s Lynn representative, Bert Cook. Lauren will now head to the district finals which are also to be held at CWA on February 14th 2015.