It’s mid-afternoon on a Wednesday and Gino Benevenga has been up since 5 am prebaking 167 pinsas at his restaurant, Venga Cucina, in the Junction. He stacks the flatbreads the size of small cutting boards on cooling racks before they go into the fridge. When the restaurant opens at 5 pm for dinner, toppings and … Read more
A dish from iDen & QuanJuDe Beijing Duck House. The celebrated Beijing restaurant is one of eight Vancouver restaurants to receive a coveted one-star rating from the Michelin Guide.Ken Huang/The Canadian Press Vancouver’s inaugural Michelin Guide was revealed at a glitzy, red-carpet ceremony that looked like the Oscars of the restaurant industry. Ratings systems of … Read more
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Things are heating up in six highly celebrated Vancouver kitchens, as some of the city’s most dynamic culinary talents prepare to compete at Canada’s Great Kitchen Party Vancouver. A noteworthy slate of competing chefs will face off at the regional qualifier on Thursday, November 24, 2022 … Read more
Address 99 Mt St north sydney, NSW 2060 view map opening hours Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat Features Accepts bookings, Licensed, Bar, Groups, Outdoor seating, Events payments eft pos, Visa, Mastercard Phone 02 8376 2900 They said it couldn’t be done, a feat up there with running the first four-minute mile and building the shells of … Read more
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. FFH-T has proposed taking Recipe Unlimited Corp. RECP-T private in a deal that values the restaurant-chain owner at $1.2-billion. Toronto-based Fairfax is already the controlling shareholder of Recipe, which owns restaurants including the Keg, Harvey’s and Swiss Chalet. The investment group currently holds 45.8 per cent of the company’s shares and … Read more
Phanor Viera, left, and Carolina Viera De La Torre outside the Arepas Ranch food truck at the Calgary Stampede grounds on June 7. Arepas Ranch is a family-run business that serves traditional Venezuelan food.Gavin John/The Globe and Mail With Stampede season under way fully for the first time since 2019, the quirky and vast realm … Read more
First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. Illustration by Rachel Wada As a young child, when someone would ask me, “Where are you from?” I’d confidently answer: “Here!” After all, being born and raised in Victoria was all I’d ever known. But … Read more
It’s not just your imagination. Restaurants really are overflowing in ways not seen since before the pandemic. Despite crushing inflation, an acute labor shortage and the lingering effects of pandemic isolation – not to mention mounting fears of recession – figures released by Statistics Canada this week showed sales at food services and drinking places, … Read more
We seem to be in the midst of a sort of golden age for burgers. Not that long ago, burger options at restaurants were mostly limited to the standard lineup of fast food spots like McDonalds, Burger King and White Castle, along with late-night diners and maybe the local bar and grill. And few of … Read more
Jen Agg is a Toronto restaurant owner and the author of I Hear She’s A Real Bitch. Despite the Toronto Raptors winning it all in 2019 – finally, we are a world-class city! – we still love, maybe even prefer, our praise from outside sources. So when the food world’s version of the NBA Finals … Read more
