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Windows by Jamie Kennedy set to open in Niagara Falls this February

Jamie Kennedy and chef de cuisine Ross Midgley (Images: Jamie Kennedy Kitchens)

Back in May, we reported that Jamie Kennedy was lending his expertise (and perhaps more importantly, his name) to a fine dining restaurant on the 14th floor of the Sheraton on the Falls Hotel, to be called Jamie Kennedy on the Falls. The restaurant is now set to open sometime in the next month, under a new name: Windows by Jamie Kennedy. “We’ve been told mid-February,” Jamie Kennedy Kitchens spokesperson Jo Dickins told The Dish. Partner Canadian Niagara Hotels has already started the search for staff to work under chef de cuisine Ross Midgley, with Tony Aspler running the wine program. The restaurant hopes to draw GTA residents familiar with Kennedy by sticking with his famously locavore philosophy—but we’re sure the views of the falls won’t hurt either.

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Weekly Lunch Pick

November 14, 2011 | 8:35 am

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Weekly Lunch Pick: a hearty soup and sandwich in Corktown

The chicken galantine sandwich and curried pumpkin purée soup at Gilead Café (Image: Andrew Brudz)

With Jamie Kennedy’s withdrawal from the Wine Bar and Hank’s, and his Gardiner Museum restaurant turned into an event and catering space, the Gilead Café and Bistro is now the best place to go for his French-inflected locavore cuisine. Inside, the trademark wall of colourful preserved fruit and vegetables makes a cozy spot for a fall lunch.

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Aprons & Icons

November 4, 2011 | 3:52 pm

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GALLERY: At this year’s What’s on the Table benefit, Toronto’s top chefs came out to support The Stop

(Image: Jenna Marie Wakani)

On Wednesday, 550 Toronto foodies and philanthropists gathered in the Wychwood Barns for What’s on the Table, the annual fundraiser for The Stop Community Food Centre. The sold-out event featured 35 food and drink stations representing a staggering array of top Toronto restaurants, including Canoe, Scaramouche, Niagara Street Café, Parts and Labour, Jamie Kennedy Kitchens, C5, Ruby Watchco, Noce, Cowbell, George and the Gabardine, with desserts from Frangipane, Nadège and Soma, and drinks from Steam Whistle, Henry of Pelham, Frodpond Farm and Château des Charmes, among many others, not to mention two contestants from season one of Top Chef Canada.

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Foodie Follies

October 26, 2011 | 9:47 am

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This year’s What’s on the Table fundraiser for The Stop features over 30 top chefs from Toronto and beyond

Eat well and feed the hungry along the way—that’s the concept behind the annual What’s on the Table benefit being held this year on November 2. Since 2005, the fundraiser has gathered $1.5 million for The Stop, the innovative community food centre whose goal is to increase everyone’s access to healthy food (check out our interview with chef Chris Brown from shortly after he joined The Stop). Dining stations open at 6:30 p.m., and patrons won’t be starved for choice; the event features offerings from over 30 chefs, including Lynn Crawford of Ruby Watcho, Anthony Walsh of Canoe and pâtissier Nadège Nourian (see below for the very impressive full list).

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Locavoracious

October 13, 2011 | 4:36 pm

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In a bid to stop the “mega-quarry,” Michael Stadtländer rallies (nearly) every chef we’ve ever heard of for Foodstock

Michael Stadtländer has rallied 100 of the best chefs from across Canada to participate in Foodstock, an epic, pay-what-you-can public food event on October 16 to raise money to fight the construction of a huge limestone quarry in the town of Honeywood, Ontario. The Highland Companies’ plan aims to span 2,316 acres of land and run 189 feet deep (deeper than Niagara Falls), and will have to pump 600 million litres of groundwater out of the pit each day (about the same amount used by 2.7 million Ontarians), all to extract crushed stone known as amabel dolostone.

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High Art

September 22, 2011 | 2:52 pm

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The Scene: The Canadian Art Foundation hosts its 16th annual Gallery Hop Gala dinner and auction at the Carlu

A modern Pinocchio (Image: Simone Olivero)

The 16th annual Canadian Art Gallery Hop began with a relaxed evening of cocktails, contemporary art and cold hard cash (in support of the arts, of course). Set in the Art Moderne backdrop of the Carlu, guests perused works donated by 50 of Canada’s best emerging, mid-career and established artists while sipping on champagne and enjoying the culinary artistry of Jamie Kennedy. Emmanuelle Gattuso, a longtime supporter and collector of the arts, Carol Rapp, on the Board of Trustees at the AGO, Jane and Eb Zeidler, and PR mainstay Michelle Levy were all in attendance, hoping to, perhaps, snag a piece from the next Mark Rothko or Diane Arbus. Check out the scene from last night’s event and find out which three pieces of art sold for more than their estimated worth after the jump.

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From the Print Edition

August 5, 2011 | 10:30 am

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Best of the City 2011: Three stops for your meat, fish and fruits and veggies

(Image: Carlo Mendoza)

Game Fish Farmers’ market

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Aprons & Icons

June 6, 2011 | 4:34 pm

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Two foodie fundraisers set to benefit the Toronto Wildlife Centre this month

From last year’s Spring for Wildlife event, host Kevin Brauch (left) with Didier Leroy (right) and the Valrhona chocolate sculpture created by chocolatier Sylvain Leroy (centre) (Image: Robert Chapman)

There’s a reason food and fundraisers go hand in hand: what better way to encourage patrons and sponsors to empty their wallets for a good cause than to fill their bellies with delicious food? (See: this weekend’s Toronto Taste.) This month, the Toronto Wildlife Centre—the only organization in the GTA that rescues and provides treatment for wildlife in need—will be on the receiving end of two such events.

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Restauran-TO

May 31, 2011 | 10:38 am

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Jamie Kennedy back in expansion mode with new Niagara Falls restaurant

Jamie Kennedy takes his local and seasonal show on the road to Niagara Falls this November

A few months ago, Jamie Kennedy told us that for him, 2010 was a year for consolidation and rebuilding. Now, the busy chef—who already runs Gilead Café and Bistro and Jamie Kennedy at the Gardiner Café, in addition to a catering business—is firmly in expansion mode with the recent announcement that he’s opening a new restaurant in Niagara Falls.

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From the Print Edition

April 20, 2011 | 9:11 am

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The sipper club: meet the city’s competitive cabal of top sommeliers

Will Predhomme belongs to a competitive cabal of top sommeliers who sniff, sip and spit their way through hundreds of bottles a week. They do this to help you decide what to drink with your dinner, while making you think it was your idea all along
By Jason McBride | Photography by Sandy Nicholson

One hundred and fifty-one people have reservations at Canoe tonight. Among these are many Bay Streeters, a couple celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, dozens of people on dates, including the bar manager from Crush, and a young woman who plans to propose to her boyfriend over dinner. The two private dining rooms are fully booked.

Canoe, part of the ever-expanding Oliver and Bonacini empire, is routinely considered one of the finest restaurants in the city. Last summer, in a rigorous competition held by the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers, known as CAPS, Canoe’s head sommelier, Will Predhomme, was proclaimed Ontario’s best. Predhomme has devoted a third of his life—he’s 29—to wine scholarship. He now knows more about wine than almost anyone in Toronto.

Just after 5 p.m., the bar area begins to fill up with commuters sipping cocktails as they wait for the traffic on the clogged Gardiner, 54 floors below, to dissipate. One of the restaurant’s first guests, a retired trial lawyer, arrives. As a young female host escorts him to his large corner table, he puts an arm around her shoulder. “I don’t like to pay bills,” he says. “I want a fucking account. Last time I was here, I offered those ladies”—referring to the hosts who greeted him at his last visit—“$300 and told them to set up an account for me. And I still don’t have one.” He and his three dining companions, Canoe regulars, have brought in several bottles of their own wine, including a cabernet franc from the ex-lawyer’s private vineyard in Tuscany. When Predhomme arrives at the table to discuss the wine, the ex-lawyer, captivatingly bratty in a way that only the rich and sort-of-powerful can be, repeats his complaint. “Look, I spend about $50,000 a year at Bymark, and I’d do the same here if I had a fucking account.” Predhomme is unmoved, but gracious. “If you give me your contact information,” he says, “I’ll make sure that it gets to the right people.”

“You’ll get me an account?”

“I’ll look into it.”

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Restauran-TO

March 16, 2011 | 9:52 am

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Toronto chefs and Ontario wineries join forces for Japan earthquake relief dinner

In response to the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last week, a number of Toronto chefs and Ontario wine producers will be joining forces in a fundraiser on Sunday, March 27th, organized by Nobuyo Stadtländer, the business partner and wife of Michael Stadtländer.

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Aprons & Icons

March 14, 2011 | 1:43 pm

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Terroir 2011 roundup: we talk to Toronto’s top chefs and restaurateurs at the foodie symposium

Fergus Henderson (St. John’s) and Arlene Stein (event chair) at Terroir

A couple weeks back, 400 members of the food and hospitality industry gathered at Hart House for Terroir V. The annual symposium saw chefs, restaurateurs and members of the food media musing over this year’s theme: “the balance of artistic creation and traditional craftsmanship in our hospitality industry.” We caught up with some top chefs—including Jason Bangerter (Luma), Mark Cutrara (Cowbell), Matt DeMille (Parts and Labour) and keynote speaker Fergus Henderson—who shared with us what they took away from the day.

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Pantry Raid

February 3, 2011 | 2:27 pm

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Hooked to add sustainable fish to Leslieville’s ever-expanding range of food boutiques

Although locally and organically raised meat has become much more common in recent years, the pickings for sustainably caught fish are still pretty slim. That’s about to change with the opening of Hooked, a new sustainable seafood market in Leslieville.

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To-Do List

February 2, 2011 | 12:33 pm

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The Weekender: Nixon in China, Kuumba and six other events on our to-do list

1. FRIDAY AFTER FIVE: DINNER AND A MOVIE
This edition of the Gardiner Museum’s popular Friday night event features a screening of the 1992 magical realist flick Like Water for Chocolate, preceded by a cocktail hour and dinner inspired by the film and catered by Jamie Kennedy. You can also just go for the movie, but why would anyone choose to skip out on ceviche, mole and churros? February 4. Movie $5, $45 with dinner. Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park, 416-362-1957, ext. 201, gardinermuseum.on.ca.

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Aprons & Icons

January 17, 2011 | 4:14 pm

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Jamie Kennedy dishes on his plans for 2011 and beyond

Jamie Kennedy sports a new ’do at his flagship Gilead Bistro (Image: Davida Aronovitch)

Recently, rumours were brewing that chef Jamie Kennedy was looking to buy Prince Edward County’s culinary jewel, Harvest. While Kennedy confirms that he was approached by Harvest’s seller, he told us, “Considering everything that’s going on in my life, taking on something like Harvest is out of the question at this point.” Still, the rumour gave us an excuse to sit down with our locavore-in-chief to talk about what’s on his plate in 2011.

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