Press & Media
Discover the stories and media features that celebrate Chef Thomas Tennant’s passion for local ingredients, sustainable seafood, and bold island flavors
Food & Beverage: Best of Cayman 2025 Winners List
(September 2025)
“Gold Medal in ‘Mobile Chef’ Category”
“I highly recommend reaching out to Chef Tennant to prepare you and yours a meal at the condos next time you’re staying with us.”
“So we have a bit of a Caribbean twist on it... so it’s going to be ‘Pepper Shrimp & Grits’”
“It’s definitely been a recent goal of mine or dream to win an award for a hot sauce.”
2025 Scovie Winners
(November 2024)
“Hot Sauce Verde - 3rd Place Green Parrot”
Food & Beverage: Best of Cayman Islands 2024 Winners List
(September 2024)
“Silver Medal in ‘Mobile Chef’ and ‘Catering’ Categories”
José Andrés Advocates for Eating and Hunting Lionfish
(February 2023)
“Tennant works with lionfish often, and I watched him adeptly slice off all of their venomous spines in seconds. He and Andrés took turns cleaning lionfish on top of an ice chest on board...”
Cayman Is The Flag-bearer Of The Caribbean Lionfish Movement (January 2022)
“No one on this side of the world ate lionfish before we started serving it in Cayman”
*Note we are no longer affiliated with Tomfoodery or FIYAH hot sauces
“The dish gives you the warm and soft rolled dough of a classic cinnamon roll, but instead uses island flavors. ”
*Note we are no longer affiliated with Tomfoodery or FIYAH hot sauces
THOMAS TENNANT | PDL (2020)
“Hot sauce is my passion. Cooking’s my love. Hospitality’s my everything.”
*Note we are no longer affiliated with Tomfoodery or FIYAH hot sauces
“...and then there was confit, cooking something submerged in fat for a long period of time at a low temperature. The result was surprisingly good.”
*Note we are no longer affiliated with Tomfoodery or FIYAH hot sauces
“That [idea] is 100 percent Chef Thomas Tennant [Schwartz’ chef on-island]. He really embraced that movement, and you know, it’s interesting, because there’s not a ton of options with local product down there, so whenever there’s something, he’s the first one to grab onto it, and take the ball and run with it.”