Chef Paul Toussaint’s Mac & Cheese with Creole Spice
In Canada, people make products with love, and quality. So do I. When I work, I work with passion, and only the best ingredients. I like to bring a Creole element…
Culinary DNA Spurs Chanthy Yen’s Reinvention
The francesinha is a mind-blowingly rich experience.
Master Sommelier Pier-Alexis Soulière loves Côtes du Rhône Wine
My love story with Côtes du Rhône wines really took off when I moved to France in 2009 to pursue my studies at Université du Vin in Suze-la-Rousse. To put…
Beyond the Plate: Derek Dammann Rolls with It
Chef Derek Dammann is a much-loved stalwart of the Montreal food scene. His gastropub Maison Publique is fun and hospitable with a serious, disciplined kitchen, which is to say that it…
Beyond the Plate: Grumman ’78 is Good Food/Fun on Wheels
Grumman ‘78 debuted as Montreal’s first food truck in 2010 and instantly developed a fan-base with cult-like devotion. Owners Gaelle Cerf and Hilary McGown opened their bricks and mortar restaurant that…
Cayman Cookout: Food, Sun and Politics
HUNGER IS NOT A PROBLEM GENERALLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE CAYMAN COOKOUT. The exclusive culinary festival, which takes over the entire Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman resort for a week each January, is…
Five Minutes with Adrian Forte
On Wednesday, August 26th, the recently re-opened Café Boulud in the Four Seasons Hotel hosts guest chef Adrian Forte for a collaboration dinner with CDC Nicholas Trosien. In support of…
Beyond the Plate: Paul Toussaint’s Kamuy
Take a look at Chef Paul Toussaint (Agrikol, Time Out Market), and you'd never know that he's been working overtime to open a restaurant during the pandemic. His sunny smile…
Off the Beaten Track: La Cabane d’à Coté
After a two-hour, 60-km drive northeast from downtown Montreal to St-Benoit de Mirabel in pre-virus rush hour traffic, we spot the sign rising—just—out of the towering snowbank that flanked the…
A Letter from the Editor Jacob Richler
Twenty years back, when I was the hard-eating restaurant critic at the National Post, I once wrote a review of a restaurant in Toronto’s Koreatown that somehow managed to go…