Mondial des Artes Sucres

Paris will be centre stage for the 2010 Patiserie Festival starting this weekend. Top pastry chefs are battling it out for the title. Lisa O’Brien, the sous chef responsible for pastry at the Bayview Hotel in Ballycotton, and 47-year- old Anthony Kelly, chef-proprietor of Riverside Restaurant and Guesthouse in Charlestown Co Mayo, will form the Irish team. They will showcase their pastry work against competitors from 11 other countries over three pressurised days. Ireland will have two judges at the event, Mary Reid, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, and Fergus Moloney, Pallas Foods’ pastry specialist. Pallas also sponsors the Irish Team.

Good luck to Lisa & Anthony