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Since leaving Niagara Street Cafe last winter Chef Nick Liu and partner, Christina Kuypers have had a long and challenging road toward opening their own place. They now have a firm location for Gwailo, the restaurant that will feature Liu's new Asian cooking matched with the cocktail-heavy beverage programme that Kuypers is designing.
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The 2012 Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance's Summit attracted a diverse crowd of tourism operators, employees of regional associations, and media. This year's event was held on October 25 at London's Convention Centre.
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This will be my third year covering Cask Days, the crown jewel in Toronto's fall craft beer season. As well as the usual incremental increase to the already impressive list of brewers and the beers they are pulling from casks, this year's event features some big shifts in the programme. The obvious one is [...]
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When Michael Gray, Boston Pizza's Director of Culinary and Executive Chef sets out to change the menu at Canada's leading chain of casual-dining, sit-down restaurants he faces a long process. As well as hitting the right food-trend notes, he also has to satisfy the owners of the company's 340 locations and their respective regular [...]
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Savour Stratford is essentially built on the symbiosis of farmer and chef. Actually, the city's entire culinary scene rests on the special relationship between Perth County's farmers and the talented chefs of Stratford and the surrounding area. The Perth County soil and climate produce a wide array of fresh and delicious produce and many [...]
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The fight to stop the construction of a limestone mega quarry that The Highland Companies wants to build in Melancthon Township continues this October. Last year, MIchael Stadtländer and the Canadian Chefs' Congress joined with local activists to bring thousands of guests to Foodstock across the highway from the proposed quarry site. For 2012 [...]
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For every word written about beer I'd bet twenty are dedicated to wine. So, it can be tough when sitting down to do the former to not reference the latter. But here, with Toronto Beer Week falling right in the middle of our month of local wine and an event about pairing food and [...]
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If you're heading down to the Ritz-Carlton for the Vintages Consumer tasting at this year's Taste Ontario we'd like to offer a helping hand that may guide you to some of the bright spots.
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