Amate gone
This cute little Mexican restaurant closed for renovations, reopened, and then finally closed for good. In its place, a new sushi restaurant called Sushi Umi. Stay tuned…
This cute little Mexican restaurant closed for renovations, reopened, and then finally closed for good. In its place, a new sushi restaurant called Sushi Umi. Stay tuned…

Montreal chefs Mathieu Cloutier and Jean-Philippe St-Denis with their Canadian Culinary Champion trophy.
Montreal Chefs Mathieu Cloutier and Jean-Philippe St-Denis, winners of the Canadian Culinary Championships.
(Photo courtesy of Steph Schumann www.stephschumann.com)

Carmichael's Grand Finale dish: sea urchin and scallop, salmon and uni roe, bathed in a coconut milk foam, and lacquered black cod crowned with a spicy lotus chip, on a carrot-coconut pureeus chip.

The start of the Black Box competition. The chefs in front of the pantry they may draw from, and, as it turns out, a nice shot of the three winners - on the right, Montreal chef Mathieu Cloutier, next to Ottawa's Matt Carmichael, and Toronto chef David Lee testing the rosemary.

Chef Matt Carmichael and sous chef Jonathan Korecki at the Black Box

Carmichael's quail dish at the Black Box

Our bronze and silver medalists, Matt Carmichael and Toronto's David Lee, with their sous chefs