Tag: Beckta
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Goût de France 2020
Goût de France is an international gastronomic event, celebrating French cuisine around the world, calling on all of us to sit down this April, and share a French dinner! While doing good in our communities. When it comes to Ottawa, it’s launched with great style, thanks to Ambassador Kareen Rispal and the team at the […]
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Top Vets
“But what of restaurants with staying power, with pedigree, with a noble history? The truth is, they tend to fall off the page.” I wrote a food feature for Ottawa Magazine’s Holiday issue, on veteran restaurants I still consider of genuine quality. I defined ‘veteran’ as those place that have blown out ten candles. (Two […]
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First Chefs & Shows at GCTC
“Come Hungry; Leave Entertained.” That’s the tasty thinking behind the GCTC Chefs & Shows, a marriage of the culinary and theatre arts, with the added pleasure of the food foreshadowing the performance. Chefs & Shows is the brainchild of Sheila Whyte of Thyme & Again, and Michael Moffatt, executive chef of Beckta, Play and Gezellig […]
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Chefs & Shows at GCTC
How brilliant is this! The Great Canadian Theatre Company, in collaboration with Sheila Whyte of Thyme & Again and Michael Moffatt, executive chef of Beckta, play and gezellig, has been playing matchmaker with the six mainstage productions of its 2016-2017 season. For one night, and one night only, each show gets a chef. And not just any ol’ chef. Just look […]
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GCTC new season promises pop-up pleasures
On the stage of the Great Canadian Theatre Company, just after the curtain was lifted on the 2016-17 season, and the chocolate truffles were making the rounds after a lovely lunch thanks to Thyme & Again Creative Catering, guests were told that each of the six plays will feature a pop-up dinner. My kind of […]
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The Dish List 2015
This year’s ‘Dish List’ is out and it’s a stunner! Huge congrats are due to photographer Christian Lalonde of Photolux Studio, to Ottawa Magazine‘s art director Jane Corbett, and to all the chefs’ involved. They were called upon to remake a plate I ate with much pleasure months before, and they clearly did so with […]