Daniel Boulud announces the chef de cuisine for Toronto’s Café Boulud
If all goes according to plan, Yorkville’s Café Boulud, the 15th-or-so location in Daniel Boulud’s ever-growing empire, will open its doors at the foot of the new Four Seasons on October 5. Helming the kitchen will be Tyler Shedden, a B.C. native who previously worked as the private dining room chef at Boulud’s Michelin three-star flagship Daniel in New York (prior to that, he was an executive sous-chef at Gordon Ramsay at the London, also in New York). Shedden, who hasn’t previously worked in Toronto, will preside over a 150-seat “casual fine dining” restaurant, whose menu will combine classic French cuisine with local, seasonal ingredients and dishes from further afar. At a reception earlier this week, Boulud praised the young chef, saying, “Tyler has been a good soldier and now is becoming a captain” (Shedden replied with a half-excited, half-terrified grin). The restaurant will be Boulud’s fourth Canadian venture: he opened Maison Boulud at Montreal’s Ritz-Carlton earlier this summer and had operated two formerly Rob Feenie–led restaurants in Vancouver, which both shut down last year. Still not clear: whether David Chang’s gang from the soon-to-open Momofuku restaurants has already made good on their threats to sabotage “Daddy Boulud’s” new digs.
Thankyou Daniel for sharing the mediocre part of your culinary empire with Toronto. We are all so grateful.
Rose Mirvish is mad ! she is of the belief that chef boyardee is real.
Hotel restaurants in Toronto, blegh.
Is that the actor from Shutter Island? Who knew he could cook !!
No, thank *you* Rpse for giving us insights into the mind of a boorish odious cow. I’ve seen your posts elsewhere and do believe the world would be a better place without you. Your knowledge of food is clearly not up to scratch and your knowledge of what it takes to make a good restaurant is clearly flawed.