This year’s Christmas Number 1 is the Terrace Restaurant @ West Lothian College!

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11^th December 2012

This year’s Christmas Number 1 is the Terrace Restaurant @ West Lothian College!

West Lothian College’s training restaurant ‘The Terrace’ has made it to number one in time for Christmas. The restaurant has hit the top spot in the Livingston section of reviews website Trip Advisor, beating 35 other dining spots in the town to achieve the title.

International Chef, Tony Singh, paid a special visit to the restaurant to congratulate staff and students, after hearing the news. Tony said: “I have been involved and supported the Hospitality Department at West Lothian College for many years now.  I recall being the honorary guest at the grand opening of the state of the art Terrace Restaurant, employing recently graduated qualified chefs into the busy kitchen of roof terrace restaurant Oloroso in Edinburgh and - more recently - joining Andy McDougall, College Chef Lecturer where we were the Official Judges for the National Association of Care Catering at their annual Care Cook Off Competition.

"West Lothian College's Hospitality Department staff and students provide a fabulous restaurant service to students, staff and visitors from the local and wider communities.  The high standard of technical skills learned are transferred onto the plate and into the dining arena by budding Chef and Service students, making the overall dining experience truly exceptional!"

Bob Prentice, Hospitality Centre Leader at West Lothian College, added: “Everyone behind the scenes has been doing their best to encourage people to comment on their experience at ‘The Terrace’. We pride ourselves on providing high quality food at very affordable rates and customer satisfaction is a huge part of our ethos. We’ve often been referred to as the best kept secret in West Lothian, but really we’d rather not be secret any longer! Our location is slightly off the beaten track but hopefully this excellent ranking from Trip Advisor will encourage more people to come and find us.” 

‘The Terrace Restaurant’ is an on-site training restaurant for Hospitality students providing a valuable experience of a real restaurant situation where they produce dishes of the highest standard. The students are supervised by experts in the planning, cooking and serving of dishes and the restaurant operates in a totally professional way. The restaurant is open to students and members of the public for both lunches and evening meals. 

SVQ2 Professional Cookery student, Ian Blair, who works in the Terrace Restaurant, commented: “We aim to provide a high level of customer care and food that matches. We are often compared favourably with quality restaurants in Edinburgh. The Terrace Restaurant is not known to everyone in West Lothian and being on the website will put our name firmly on the map.”

-ENDS-

Image 1: Chef Tony Singh at the Terrace Restaurant.

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