Lombardi Restaurant Wins At Wild Food Challenge

Lombardi Restaurant A Winner At Monteiths Beer & Wild Food Challenge

Lombardi restaurant at Grand Mercure St Moritz was a winner at the 10th Annual Monteiths Beer & Wild Food Challenge 2007, taking out the top prize for Best Individual Beer & Food match.

Lombardi's winning meal was "Thyme for Rabbit" - wild thyme short-crust pastry filled with rabbit, kumara and puha pot-au-feu, served with walnut and watercress crusted rabbit loin, which was matched with Monteiths Celtic beer. The restaurant tied in first place with Surreal, also in Queenstown.

Head chef Avi Yochay and Sous Chef Kylie Burke created both the winning dish and one other for the competition: "Quintessential Quail" - prosciutto wrapped quail rubbed with horopito, served with pickled wild mushrooms on a rocket salad, matched with Monteiths Pilsner.

This is the third consecutive year that Lombardi has entered the competition and the third time they have won a prize. In 2005 the restaurant received the Best Service award and in 2006 was the Queenstown regional winner.

With such an impressive record, the Lombardi team is determined to maintain its winning streak in next year's competition.

For more information on Lombardi restaurant visit the hotel website www.stmoritz.co.nz

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