KENYA – Serena Beach Resort and Spa in Mombasa, Kenya, presented an inaugural seafood festival with various dishes showcasing a unique dining experience.
With its beachfront location, the culinary festival that celebrates the ocean was held at the Jahazi Grill, where guests were served fresh seafood sauced with casual flavours by the beach.
The exciting eight-course culinary event with diverse and captivating flavors only featured sustainably caught and harvested seafood making it a unique gesture in the midst of an alarming rate of marine pollution.
The event themed, “celebrating the ocean, appreciating land and sea experience,” was attended by over 50 seafood lovers and is geared towards creating awareness about conservation, sustainability and replenishing of the ocean including marine forests such as mangroves, sustainable beaches, and the entire marine ecosystem.
According to the hotel’s general manager (GM) Alphazard Chege, Jahazi Grill at the resort has over the years carved a niche on the coast as one of the best seafood restaurants hence the event was an opportunity for them to showcase their culinary prowess.
“We brought together our top fine-dining chefs from our various units to reward our loyal Jahazi Grill clients with a choice dining experience complemented by carefully chosen wines from around the world,” said Chege.
Chege said the seafood festival celebrates the essence of coastal cuisine where it’s a journey of tastes straight from the ocean to the dinner plate with each dish freshly prepared in front of our esteemed guests.
He added that the hotel surrounded by deep water teeming with marine life, boasts a long history of expertly cooked fresh catch.
Nevertheless, according to the manager, the fine dining event which took at least two months of meticulous planning sought to use the ingredients in season at that particular time from farms and each dish had a story to tell, from the forgotten grains, to how the hotel team sustainably sources for seafood and vegetables.
The GM highlighted that the turnout was excellent citing that over 50 clients attended the event and they all left full of praise and compliments for the experience.
The resort projects to host this vibrant tapestry of food experience after every six months in future in an effort to celebrate, showcase and appreciate the diversity of ingredients available in the ocean.
The festival celebrates the incredible tastes of sumptuous lobsters, succulent prawns, delectable local catch and aromatic crabs promising an unforgettable dining experience for foodies.
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