We're all hopped up on Canada! Canada Day weekend is the perfect time to think about cooking Canadian - an easy and pleasurable task with these five inspirational Canadian cookbooks 2016. True North: Canadian Cooking from Coast to Coast by…
Last week the legendary Argentinian chef Fernando Trocca made his first visit to Canada, stopping in at Anthony Rose’s backyard BBQ hot spot Big Crow. At his flagship Buenos Airies restaurant Sucre (#29 of on the 2014 Latin American edition…
Little kids have Disneyland. Teenagers and millennials have their parents’ empty houses. What do the grown-ups have? La Cité du Vin: the new mecca for wine lovers. An adult theme park for oenophiles, La Cité du Vin is being heralded as the…
Chef Michael Hunter’s Antler Kitchen & Bar is a showcase for wild Canadiana. Its walls are decorated with mounted deer antlers and photographs of maple trees tapped with syrup and morels ripe for plucking. And just in case that messaging…
Did you know that Canada wastes roughly $31 billion worth of food from farm to consumer every year? Flashfood is a new app that might help turn that around. It's hard not to be infuriated by the shocking stats about food…
Heidi Ladell is Senior Vice President, Head of Culinary, for IMG – which owns and operates Taste festivals around the world. Currently, the annual event that is Taste takes place in 20 cities, including London, UK, where it originated, and…
Miku Toronto opened in late 2015 and ever since – like its Vancouver precursor - has thrived on the burgeoning popularity of its specialty of aburi sushi, a blowtorch-singed version of the more familiar nigiri sushi. In the run-up to…
Chef Chuck Hughes is co-owner of the Montreal restaurants Garde Manger and Le Bremner, a best-selling cookbook author and Food Network star. When Canada’s 100 Best caught up with the Iron Chef winner and Chopped Canada judge Chuck Hughes, he…
Sincerest congratulations to the incomparable Massimo Bottura. His Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy, was anointed last night as the best restaurant in the world at the New York release party for Restaurant Magazine’s annual list of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants.…
May we suggest you honour World Gin Day with The Locavore? According to Nick Baldassare, Beverage Manager of Nota Bene, the warm spices, and bitterness from the Capo Capo complement the fresh rhubarb and give the cocktail a feeling akin…
Brooklyn designer Danielle Trofe’s pretty MushLume lamp is made from biodegradable mushroom material. The MushLume lighting collection is grown, not manufactured, from mushrooms: mushroom mycelium to be specific. When combined with agricultural byproducts, she creates a beautiful organic, sustainable and…
Italian Wines were the big draw last week at Taste of Italy's Tre Bicchieri Wine Tasting. The enthusiastic and good looking crowd savoured the 100+ wines with the coveted Tre Bicchieri award from Gambero Rosso, Italy’s most influential wine guide.…