Burlington Son of a Peach Pizzeria chef earns two national pizza-making awards
Burlington can celebrate a multiple award-winning pizza chef.
Chef Bart Nadherny, owner of
Son of a Peach Pizzeria
and
The Sunshine Doughnut Co.
, won two awards for his pizza this month and also qualified for an international showdown.
At
Toronto's Restaurants Canada Show
on April 7, Nadherny took first place in the Traditional category. Along with a $3,000 prize, he earned a spot in the International Pizza Competition in Las Vegas next March.
On April 15, Chef Bart won first place at
Canadian Pizza Summit's Chef of the Year
competition, hosted by
Canadian Pizza Magazine
in Montreal.
That win also includes a guaranteed spot in the Las Vegas international competition, and an all-expenses paid trip to Vegas for two.
'This is absolutely surreal,' Nadherny said. 'We've always put love and creativity into every pizza we make — but to be recognized twice in one week, and now have the chance to represent Canada on an international stage, is beyond anything I imagined.'
Chef Bart Nadherny of Burlington's Son of a Peach Pizzeria won two national pizza-making competitions in April and advanced to compete in an international competition in Las Vegas next year.
Colleen Cross, editor of Canadian Pizza magazine, said Nadherny earned Canadian Pizza Chef of the Year honours with a pizza called The Pig + Peach.
'We'll be featuring it in an upcoming issue of Canadian Pizza, a trade publication for the industry,' Cross stated in an email.
She said Nadherny's winning pizza featured house-made peach barbecue sauce. Cross also said Nadherny took second place in the same competition last year.
John Gutenkast, an award-winning pizza chef from Ohio who hosted the Restaurants Canada Show's pizza competition, said Nadherny made 'a wonderfully simple pizza, but I think his crust and dough set him apart from the rest.
'His crust was a crispy char, which added to the cupping pepperonis' strength of taste. He also had pepperonis under the first layer of cheese. Nice! And I think his vivacious personality and passion for pizza won the judges over.'
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