In the prime of summer, Chef Labelle makes the hour-and-15-minute run to the city for deliveries frequently. On Wednesdays, his busiest day, it’s a 15-stop run. To start, after crossing the Champlain Bridge, his truck full, he heads for the…
And no one is happier and more excited about it than its eminently gifted executive chef — returned native son Kristian Eligh. “My beaming smile says it all. I’m thrilled,” says Eligh, who left the capital of B.C. for Vancouver in…
DON’T GET ME WRONG. I like my Kaluga Queen caviar from China just as much as the next guy. And, if next week a waiter at my Toronto local restaurant goes hog-wild over my Dover sole with a slicer and…
Naturally, Hadida has lots of regular haunts along the route from wine country to the city. On Dundas Street in Mississauga, there’s Monasaba, a Yemeni restaurant known for its mandi–roast lamb or chicken with aromatic basmati. Nearby, a Venezuelan café…
While the challenges of managing kitchens in two different cities simultaneously are daunting, Chef Chen finds ways to make the most of things. The advantage that I have from the rest of the competition [in Whistler] is coming up from…
From a spectacular perch on the western shore of Okanagan Lake, about 15 minutes from the city of Kelowna, the views here are idyllic. And they recall some of the world’s most famous wine regions — in, say, France, Spain,…
Alongside centuries of tradition, winemaking in Portugal is going through a veritable revolution as a new generation of vignerons take over their families' historied estates or start their own independent vinicultural projects. Across the regions, investments in both vineyards and…
Say, the small figurine peering outward from behind the glass-fronted hostess stand that looks like some sort of hybrid of Bibendum and Krusty the Clown. Or, if you missed that one, Michael Jordan in his Bulls uniform, perched on a…
Late on a weeknight at Alobar, in Yorkville, the bar is still full, and in the surrounding lounge and dining room, the crowd is just beginning to thin. So the hustle in the partly open kitchen at the rear is…
Fairmont Royal York, the city's most happening hotel, is ready to aid and abet you in your celebratory desires. Whether it's an excuse for a cocktail, Mother's Day Afternoon Tea To-Go, a decadent Sunday brunch or the arrival of their sparkly new…
“LISTEN TO THE FLAVOURS” WAS THE THEME OF THE 2022 GIFFARD WEST CUP COCKTAIL COMPETITION. Crowley won the national finals and represented Canada proudly in Angers, France, with a cocktail inspired by her grandmother’s strawberry-rhubarb pie, paired with the Don…