The businesses we used to know and love simply as restaurants are undertaking all sorts of initiatives to keep food and money moving, and a few core employees on the payroll instead of EI. Many restaurants are offering simplified takeout…
Six years ago my business partner Geoff Dawe and I launched Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants with a view to celebrating the very best this great industry has to offer. Today that same industry is not just on the ropes, but…
Make a case for slowing your pace. In a digital world, slow is the enemy—slow internet service, slow trains, slow traffic: all are unwanted. But in the travel world, slow is becoming a prized quality. The budding slow travel movement…
When you consult our 2019 list of Canada’s Best Restaurants you’ll find a hotel restaurant at every echelon. Top ten? Try Langdon Hall, in Cambridge, Ontario. Top 20: Hawksworth at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia, in Vancouver. And on it goes,…
Chefs are making their charity work personal. Eight of us are gathered tonight in Gaoler’s Mews, the private restaurant within a restaurant behind Vancouver’s L’Abattoir, where a pair of the country’s best chefs are cooking us dinner. Across the bar,…
Jaffa, the ancient city just south of Tel Aviv, is awash in hip restaurants, trendy galleries and glowing nightlife. Many inhabit neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance buildings, making for an irresistible pairing of old-meets-new. At the heart of it sits the Jaffa…
The first time we shacked up at an Ace was a decade back, in midtown Manhattan. The room was small, but so what? We went downstairs for oysters, bottarga flatbread sandwiches and a baked bluefish head at April Bloomfield’s John…
Our first stop was in the Marche region, on the Adriatic coast, where Massimo Mancini’s family-owned factory produces pasta. The cream-coloured spaghetti is a great support for a glistening, perfectly emulsified vongole sauce made with butter and white wine.
After a day on the water, guests and local naturalists retire to Wickaninnish Inn’s On the Rocks Bar. The remote hotel, perched atop the Tofino shores and circled by a pine forest, recently revamped the bar, bringing in furniture and…
On the early-morning drive from L’Aquila to San Pio delle Camere, an armoured truck zooms past us in the fog. Is saffron now transported by military? The spice so expensive it’s called “red gold” has, according to local legend, been…
With the excessive charges for checked bags these days, the carry-on reigns supreme. At the front of the pack: Away, a brand that has built a cult-like following on tarmacs and in terminals—and for good reason. Offered in a rainbow…
Winter is here, get out and make the most of it! In Vancouver, try a winterized zipline over Grouse Mountain (with sleigh rides and sledding for the less daring). Eastward, the Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello covers 300 acres of trails…