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Daniel Boulud’s new Café Boulud announced last night at the Four Seasons

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The Four Seasons condo presentation centre played host to celeb chef Daniel Boulud last night, where he introduced his much-gossiped-about new restaurant, Café Boulud, set to take up residence in the new Four Seasons hotel on Bay Street. Café Boulud will have its own entrance and patio space facing Yorkville Avenue, and sit above a new bar that will celebrate the hotel group’s 50th year in business. Boulud is famed for his New York-based, globe-spanning empire of restaurants, including his most renowned, the three-Michelin-starred Daniel.

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October 18, 2011 | 10:39 am

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The cat’s out of the bag: Daniel Boulud to open restaurant at the new Four Seasons

Back in April, we reported that Daniel Boulud was another in the growing group of Michelin-starred chefs to snub Toronto in favour of Vancouver or Montreal. Not so, apparently: the National Post’s Shinan Govani confirmed yesterday the rumours that the lauded New York chef of Daniel fame will be opening a restaurant in the new Four Seasons hotel and condo complex on Bay Street (there’s an official announcement scheduled for next Thursday). This is the second Canadian hotel partnership in the works for the chef, who is opening Maison Boulud in Montreal in early 2012 to coincide with a $150-million renovation to the Montreal Ritz-Carlton. Previously, Boulud opened and subsequently closed two restaurants in Vancouver, DB Bistro Moderne and Lumière, after only two years in business.

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October 17, 2011 | 12:08 pm

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Q&A with Padma Lakshmi: the Top Chef host, who’ll be in town for the Delicious Food Show, talks about her favourite contestants and places to eat

Padma Lakshmi, the model, actress, sometime singer, Top Chef host and bestselling cookbook author, will be in town this weekend for the Delicious Food Show at the Better Living Centre. The show, which will also see appearances from Mark McEwan, David Rocco and Afrim Pristine of the Cheese Boutique, will feature cooking demonstrations, tastings, a wine-stomping and more. We chatted with the former supermodel about some of her favourite places to eat, her Top Chef co-star Tom Colicchio and her impressions of eating out in Toronto.

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June 7, 2011 | 12:51 pm

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Top Chef Canada recap, episode 9: the prez

Odd couple Roger Mooking and Thea Andrews at the quickfire challenge (Image: Food Network Canada/Insight Productions)

TOP CHEF CANADA
Season 1 | Episode 9

For any viewers who found the Milestones sponsorship in episode seven of Top Chef Canada unbearable, it’s probably a good thing you were too busy watching the Canucks get trounced by the Bruins to witness last night’s episode, which sometimes felt a bit like a glorified, 42-minute President’s Choice ad. Still, seeing the contestants squirm around the constraints of the challenge made for far more entertaining viewing than watching the obliteration of Canada’s Stanley Cup hopefuls. Plus, the editing in the introductory scenes didn’t manage to give away who would be eliminated—a definite improvement over some previous episodes. After the jump, our recap of how it all went down.

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May 17, 2011 | 11:39 am

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Top Chef Canada recap, episode 6: horsing around

Dale MacKay before head judge Mark McEwan and his boss Daniel Boulud; French Food at Home’s Laura Calder (Image: Food Network Canada/Insight Products)

TOP CHEF CANADA
Season 1 | Episode 6

Last night’s episode of Top Chef Canada might have featured superstar New York chef Daniel Boulud, but the viewing audience likely tuned in for another reason altogether: horsemeat-gate (last week’s preview for episode 6 revealed that horsemeat would make an appearance, setting off a pre-emptive e-backlash and prompting Metro Morning to call our own Chris Nuttall-Smith for his opinion). Aside from the horsemeat sideshow, the episode featured some entertaining character development—Dale MacKay as a sore loser, Rob Rossi as a baby-faced trash talker—a classic Top Chef misstep and, for the first time, not a single chef in their underwear. Our recap of it all, after the jump.

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May 12, 2011 | 11:47 am

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Next week’s episode of Top Chef Canada to feature horsemeat, outrage ensues

Oh, the controversy. At the end last week’s episode of Top Chef Canada, the preview for episode six featured, among other things, French-culinary-god-by-way-of-NYC Daniel Boulud as guest judge, a classic French cuisine challenge, and—how did we miss this?—horsemeat. Well, other viewers didn’t miss it, and many have been up in arms with Food Network Canada via Twitter and Facebook. They’ve even begun an online petition to boycott the network.

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May 10, 2011 | 12:25 pm

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Top Chef Canada recap, episode 5: 11 little piggies

A toast to us! (Image: Food Network Canada/Insight Productions)

TOP CHEF CANADA
Season 1 | Episode 5

Last night on Top Chef Canada, the competition moved into its second phase: some obvious underperformers have been eliminated, a leader pack is emerging, and the clowning around has died down. Tellingly, even when the contestants are shown in their underwear, they’ve got their game faces on. Here, our recap of an episode that contained everything from whole hogs to former military officers.

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April 14, 2011 | 4:28 pm

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Daniel Boulud announces new Montreal resto, joins long line of Michelin-starred chefs to snub Toronto

Daniel Boulud at his eponymous restaurant in New York (Image: winestem)

First Jean-Georges Vongerichten, then Daniel Boulud, then Gordon Ramsay, and now Daniel Boulud again. That’s three Michelin-starred celebrity chefs that have passed over Toronto to open Canadian outposts in Vancouver and Montreal. Boulud (who made his name at Le Cirque and Daniel, among others) announced today that he would open a new restaurant, Maison Boulud, at the Ritz-Carlton in Montreal.

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April 12, 2011 | 12:06 pm

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Top Chef Canada recap, episode 1: playing with knives

TOP CHEF CANADA
Season 1 | Episode 1

Like most fans of the original, American Top Chef, we came to last night’s premiere of Top Chef Canada with some pretty serious expectations. Would the level of competition be as fierce? Would Thea Andrews be credible as the host? Could we blindly trust head judge Mark McEwan the way we do Tom Colicchio? Would the producers be able to cram in as many egregious product placements?

We needn’t have worried. Top Chef Canada is eerily similar to the original—same structure, same music, same sound effects, same stock phrases—but with an extra dash of Canadian hokeyness added in. Here, our recap of the best dishes, quips and insidious sponsorship.

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February 17, 2010 | 9:34 am

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Gail Simmons on food, Jeffrey Steingarten and her hometown of Toronto

Hometown Gail (Photo by Bravo TV)

She may have ditched Hogtown for the Big Apple, but Gail Simmons still remembers her hometown fondly—especially when being interviewed by the Toronto Star. A recent profile in the paper details the early life of the Top Chef judge, including a post-university period of feeling “lost and scared” while living in her parents’ basement. The Cedarvale native had sweeter plans in mind, though, wanting to do nothing more or less in life than “cook, eat, travel, write.” After interning right here at Toronto Life and at the National Post, she realized there weren’t many food-writing jobs in Canada. “Most of the food news we consume is American, especially in magazines,” she says, which is why she packed up her taste buds and whisked off to New York.

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January 4, 2010 | 12:46 pm

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Eat the Olympics: the eyes of the world turn to Vancouver and its culinary scene

Vancouver's Olympic village awaits its hungry hordes (Photo by Roland Tanglao)

Vancouver's Olympic village awaits the hungry hordes (Photo by Roland Tanglao)

The 2.3 million people expected to attend the Olympics in Vancouver next month can expect more than just snow and ceremony and Sumi. They can also sample world-class food from a city whose gastronomical scene has been on steroids in recent years. Below is our roundup of news coverage from beyond our borders about Vancouver’s medal-worthy cuisine scene.

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November 4, 2009 | 3:01 pm

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More and more hot international chefs eating out in Toronto

Kahan, Achatz, Daniel Boulud (Photos by <a href=

Paul Kahan, Grant Achatz and Daniel Boulud (Photos by Kirk Bravender, Stu Spivack, winestem)

We have been noticing lately that internationally renowned chefs are increasingly traipsing through Toronto. A few months back, Grant Achatz of Chicago’s Alinea was in town tippling at Barchef and envying the St. Lawrence Market. This past weekend, culinary greats Daniel Boulud (owner of NYC’s Daniel and Vancouver’s Lumière) and James Beard Award winner Paul Kahan (executive chef at Chicago’s Blackbird, The Publican and Avec) were in town to help raise funds for Toronto General Hospital and Toronto Western Hospital at the fifth annual Grand Cru Culinary Wine Festival.

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Read All About It

November 3, 2009 | 9:26 am

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Whole Foods gets some competition, Rosie DiManno’s Halloween hijinks, rethinking turkey dinners

Fowl fun: Daniel Boulud, Wylie Dufresne and David Shea put together turkey dinners for New York magazine (Photo by Doug Shick)

• New York challenges three chefs to create a Thanksgiving meal using such classic ingredients as turkey, brussels sprouts, sweet potatoes, stuffing, pumpkin and oysters. It’s a bit late for the Canadian version of the holiday, but it does give us plenty of time to prepare for Christmas dinner. [New York]

• After taking her niece and nephew trick-or-treating on the Bridle Path this weekend, Rosie DiManno concludes that the residents are “pikers and meanies, folks who’d begrudge a youngster a licorice swirl.” Most homes, in fact, weren’t handing out sweets at all, and one of the children declared it the “worst Halloween ever.” [Toronto Star]

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October 6, 2009 | 11:51 am

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The Twitter diet, the best cheese in the world, the truth behind coffee’s contents

Wired magazine wakes up and smells the coffee (Photo by Terin Barrios)

• Wired magazine breaks down what’s in a cup of coffee, including the good, the bad and the ugly. On the plus side, it’s high in antioxidants and helps prevent cavities by preventing tooth-eating bacteria from attaching to teeth. Not so appetizingly, it contains dimethyl disulfide (one of the components that gives human feces their odour) and putrescine (a chemical released during the breakdown of amino acids that smells, well, putrid). [Wired]

• A new Twitter app known as Tweet What You Eat is shaming the iGeneration into eating healthier and losing weight. The tool, a simple on-line food diary in which users publically share what they ingest, even has the endorsement of Stephen Fry and Matt Lucas. In other news, staying in bed might actually be a wise weight-loss decision. Who needs StairMaster when you can just sleep and tweet all day? [Telegraph]

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