From the boreal forest to the tundra; from the Prairie grasslands to Ontario’s Carolinian woodlands, Canada is stunningly rich with flora and fauna. Bio-diversity is our most valuable heritage. With 71,000 species which have been scientifically described and another estimated 69,000 * species yet to be named and classified, it becomes crystalline that the protection of our ecological heritage is absolutely paramount.
First and foremost, Tuck Shop is a neighbourhood restaurant . Owner Jon Bloom writes “We are proudly located at 4662 Notre Dame Ouest in the heart of St-Henri. Historically, the neighbourhood is known for its working class residents, leather tanning
Named after the railway baron and industrialist Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, Van Horne is one of my favourite new restaurants in this marvellous edible city. Located in the very real community of Outremont it’s worth spending a bit of
When you finally find Le Bremner, it’s almost as though you’ve joined a secret club. Nearly at a dead end of rue Saint Paul East and hidden down an ancient hewn stone stairway with only the number 361 atop the
As Sooke Harbour House is to Vancouver Island, Manoir Hovey is to Quebec. On the banks of Lake Massawippi, near North Hatley in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, this inn and Chef Roland Ménard, have been harvesting the region and serving it
As of October 10, 2012, Derek Dammann, the well-tattoed chef who, with his business partner, Alex Cruz, built a stellar reputation for Montreal Restaurant DNA, has created the sort of restaurant he is all about…democratic and fun, delicious and fresh,
Les Jardins de Métis is a magical place and a testament to a dream that has spanned generations of the Reford family. In the summer of 1926, Elsie Reford began transforming her fishing camp on the Metis River into a garden.
One of the neatest restaurants in Quebec, Les Jardins Sauvages, is owned and operated by Chef Nancy Hinton and forager/farmer François Brouillard. Aside from being a country eatery, they create and sell a line of products derived from wild plants
Gold Medal Plates head judge James Chatto reports: What a perfect venue we found for this year’s Montreal Gold Medal Plates – the sharply modern Science Centre in the Old Port with its splendid view of the old city! Van
If you’re in the Ottawa Valley or the Outaouais and you mention the concept of regional cooking in Quebec, Les Fougères will be named. Chefs Charles Part and Jennifer Warren Part are completely and utterly dedicated to serving forth the
About a decade ago, Fairmont Hotels gave Le Manoir Richelieu (c. 1899) a $170 million make over. In it’s very early days it was constructed to emulate a French castle and, today, it really is a grand hotel on one
Danny St. Pierre is one of the new generation of Quebec chefs who are poised to take all of Canada by storm. They are celebrating their French roots with passion and style and extraordinarily good taste. Last year he personally hit
When I first met Chef Daniel Vézina he had just opened his restaurant and named it after his two his two children, Laurie and Raphaël. Even then, in the 1980s, he was starting to set up micro supply networks so
When we first met in 1999, Chef Alain Labrie was creating some of the finest dining experiences Quebec has ever seen at the iconic inn, Auberge Hatley. When that inn was not rebuilt after a fire in 2005, he and
Every time I head to this region of Quebec, I marvel. Firstly because the landscape, almost adjoining Gatineau Park, is so spectacular but also because it is so close to downtown Ottawa. No where in North America is such wild,
The Boucanerie Chelsea Smokehouse is legendary in the Outaouais region near Ottawa. But under the relatively new ownership of Line Boyer and James Hargreaves, it is now a full fledged culinary destination that can rival any in Canada. Period. The
Particularly at the holiday season, Canada overflows with festive flavours. The abundance of the harvest is past and now we turn to cooking and baking, almost to the point of happy exhaustion. Regional tastes are being transformed into the “New
The Canadian pulse industry and Food Day Canada are pleased to announce the winners of the Healthy People, Healthy Planet Award 2011. The prizes are being awarded to three chefs from across Canada who have created innovative pulse-based dishes that
Chef Geneviève Filion was one of the marvellous team of Auberge Hatley who was determined to stay in the area after the inn’s fire. Chef Alain LaBrie of La Table du Chef was the other. Her cooking is contemporary and
Chef Normand Laprise and business partner, Christine Lamarche have been regaling dinners and promoting their suppliers for as long as they’ve been in business. Normand hails from the southeast shore of the St. Lawrence River in the very French, very
From Quebec, with love. Chef Jean-Pierre Curtat actively promotes Québec’s products and specialities both here at home and on his many trips to the United States, Spain and Japan. His is elegant cuisine. When we first met, he was cooking on
Although I’d known about it for years, I first bought Lac St. Jean wild blueberry blossom honey in 2008 at Le Marché les Halles du Vieux Port, the fabulous farmers market in Québec City. It’s hue is slightly darker in
Most Canadians, unlike many of our ancestors in their less bountiful homelands, have such remembrances about the importance of meat on the table. It is often these main dishes like the Basque Boeuf Bourguignon that effectively nail a particular culture
Scratch the surface of any eastern Canadian and you’ll get a maple story. Early March was the time in which my grandfather, Albert Ovens, would have what he would call his annual “feed”, a fruit nappie filled with first run
This is a French-Canadian traditional recipe that was part of the food culture of les colons (settlers). It’s an adaptation of the even more historical, sugar pie, tarte au sucre. I use the darker, less expensive syrup because it lends
There are a few memorable meals that will never fade. One such occurred when my son, Brad (then a mere 12 years old), and I dined at La Pinsonniere, a fine Charlevoix inn. We had a window seat that overlooked
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