Tag: Stofa

  • Gold Medal Plates 2018: Ottawa, meet your chefs

    Gold Medal Plates 2018: Ottawa, meet your chefs

    Updated: September 13, 2018 There’s a few things I’m mighty happy about in this year’s Gold Medal Plates competition, held at the Shaw Centre on October 11th. For one, look at that date! It’s a full month ahead of our typical mid-November slot. Ask any Ottawa-Gatineau chef what that means, and she’ll tell you it means greater […]

  • Pick of the Plates: 17 Memorable Dishes of 2017

    Pick of the Plates: 17 Memorable Dishes of 2017

    Chestnuts and Cabbage at Clover I ate this in the last gasps of last December, too late to include in my roundup of good plates of 2016, so it’s being squeezed into this one. There aren’t many chefs who can dream up a vegan dish with such complexity of flavours and textures, and plate, just […]

  • Opening: Sawision’s Stofa

    Opening: Sawision’s Stofa

    Have to admit, I’m pretty stoked for this place. Jason Sawision, chef de cuisine at Atelier restaurant for six years, Marc Lepine’s sous chef for both the 2012 and 2016 golden wins at the Canadian Culinary Championships, 14-month intern at chef Michael Stadtlander’s Eigensinn Farm, butcher for a year at Toronto’s The Healthy Butcher, chef/instructor […]