There’s a new restaurant manager and sommelier at Sidart. Existing staff member Stefano Baldin is taking control on the floor at the awarded Ponsonby fine dining restaurant. A consummate hospitality professional, 27-year-old Italian-born Baldin has been working as senior waiter at Sidart since October 2014.
He came to New Zealand on a working visa in September 2014 passing both the Introductory and Certified Sommelier exams organised by the Court of Master Sommeliers in July 2015.
Sidart owner Sid Sahrawat says he and Stefano have achieved a lot since Stefano arrived at the restaurant in late 2014 as senior waiter. “We’re so pleased Stefano has been able to step in to the position of restaurant manager and sommelier. I am positive we will continue to evolve and refine the SIDART experience with Stefano in his new role.”
Former Sidart sommelier Amanda Rogers had been with SIDART for three and a half years and has moved on to pursue other interests.
SIDART, Three Lamps Plaza, 283 Ponsonby Road, T: 09 360 2122, www.sidart.co.nz