Video: Coming To The ‘Table’: The Trinidad & Tobago Table Talk Food Awards
Magdalena Grand Beach & Golf Resort Director of Food & Beverage Vinod Bajaj and Table Talk Food Awards Chair/Founder Novia McDonald-Whyte. <strong><strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong></strong>
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January 27, 2017

Video: Coming To The ‘Table’: The Trinidad & Tobago Table Talk Food Awards

Coming To The ‘Table’

Sharon Clark-Rowley, the attorney-at-law married to the country’s prime minister, and her legal eagle daughter Tonya Rowley, generated a certain buzz on the Tuesday, January 17th guest list as the otherwise measured conversations and shutter speeds seemed to spontaneously erupt in their vicinity. Then there was Aioli founder & Executive Chef John Aboud, who deservedly earned three Trinidad & Tobago Table Talk Food Awards — the most nods at this, the third staging of the series’s twin-island republic edition. The festivities were backed by Scotiabank, Sperone, Estate 101, Caribbean Airlines, AS Bryden & Sons and Frigidaire, and unfolded in familiar territory at the private social members’ club in Maraval, Estate 101, where on a drizzly night Rock-native, Executive Chef Merrick Wilmot fêted patrons with his extensive buffet service. SO narrows its frame around the winners and patrons who came to represent and applaud excellence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flutes of Sperone prosecco.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong>
A cascading chandelier also lent some glitz to the affair.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong>
The event&rsquo;s red carpet was where the photo-ops and selfies went down.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong>
The awards ceremony&rsquo;s official pour was Sperone prosecco.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong>
The Sperone watering hole doled out bubbly at the third staging of the Trinidad & Tobago Table Talk Food Awards.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong>
The latest iteration of the Trinidad & Tobago Table Talk Food Awards was sponsored by Scotiabank, Sperone, Estate 101, Caribbean Airlines, and Frigidaire.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong>
Contractor Rakesh Samaroo and Dolce Desserts Head Pastry Chef Shivani Maharaj<strong>. <strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong><br></strong>
Layali co-managing directors, spouses Nalini Ramkissoon-Azab and Mazen Azab.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong>
Homemakers Jeneile McCarthy-Sinanan (left) and Michelle Sturge (centre), with Unit Trust Assistant Vice-President, Marketing & Communications Natasha Davis.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong>
Marine pilot Peter Lazzari and The Sweet Beet director Alix Fitzwilliam.<strong><strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong></strong>
Scotiabank Senior Vice-President & Head of the Caribbean, South & East Anya Schnoor (left) with mother and daughter attorneys-at-law, respectively, Sharon Clark-Rowley (centre) and Tonya Rowley<strong>.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong></strong>
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Scotiabank Senior Vice-President & Head of the Caribbean, South & East Anya Schnoor (left), National Canners Managing Director Jeremy Matouk, and Scotiabank Branch Manager Karrian Hepburn<strong>. <strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong><br></strong>
Mount Hope medical student Xiela Coyi (left) and University of the West Indies, St Augustine veterinarian student Briana Schwapp.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong>
Attorneys-at-law, Trinidad & Tobago prime minister&rsquo;s wife Sharon Clark-Rowley (left), and her daughter Tonya Rowley with Jamaica Observer Managing Director Danville Walker<strong> (GARFIELD ROBINSON)</strong>
The Trinidad & Tobago Table Talk Food Awards returned to the private social members&rsquo; club at 10 Saddle Road, in Maraval.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong>
Swag boxes, gifted to the patrons of the Trinidad & Tobago Table Talk Food Awards, housed ready-to-roll mugs, provided by Scotiabank.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong>
Table Talk Food Awards Chair/Founder Novia McDonald-Whyte (centre) with the Trinidad & Tobago PM&rsquo;s wife Sharon Clark-Rowley (left), an attorney-at-law, and her daughter Tonya Rowley, also an attorney-at-law<strong>.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong></strong>
Trinidad & Tobago Table Talk Food Awards judge and magistrate Kerianne Byer<strong>.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong></strong>
#TTFA, the larger-than-life hashtag to know, dipped in some Trinbagonian flavour for good measure.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong>
Trinidad & Tobago Table Talk Food Awards judges Niall &ldquo;Niall Royal&rdquo; McNish, entrepreneur and marketer, and Leah Marville, attorney-at-law, model, and Miss Barbados 2009.<strong>(GARFIELD ROBINSON) </strong>

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