Award winning chef's cooking demonstrations at Night Market

Visitors to this evening's [22 April] Rotorua Night Market are in for a culinary treat with free cooking demonstrations from professional chef Peter Blakeway on the evening’s menu.

The award winning chef will create a number of dishes combining fare from some of the region’s local growers and suppliers.

Mr Blakeway has almost twenty years’ experience in the hospitality industry, ten years spent running the Good Hotel Guide’s Hotel of the Year, Kilcamb Lodge in the Scottish Highlands. Prior to this, he worked at several Michelin-star establishments in Europe and USA.

Emigrating from the UK to the Bay of Plenty with his young family in 2004, he opened the Deli on Devonport and Plenti Cookschool in Tauranga in May 2005.

Rotorua District Council business partnership manager Nick Dallimore says organisers are rapt to have secured a chef of Mr Blakeway's calibre to entice and entertain market-goers.

"The cooking demonstrations will add to the ambience of our night market, which already carries the delicious smells of ethnic and Kiwiana cuisine, and an added attraction for locals who enjoy a casual evening out. And I’m sure people at the night market will also pick up a tip or two during Peter’s mouth-watering demonstrations.”

The Rotorua Night Market takes place in the Heart of Tutanekai Street, between Haupapa and Pukuatua Streets on Thursdays from 5pm to around 9pm.