For the second year running, The Samuel J. Moore‘s Chef Alexandra Feswick will be hosting The Dinner Party, a multi course dinner based up on the installation piece of the same name by feminist artist Judy Chicago. On Tuesday the 3rd of December, assisted by Leah Wildman (2013 Toronto...

Just when you think you have it all figured out, along comes a fellow like Tom Leonardini. After many years of understanding (and preaching) that only the hillside vineyard sites of the Napa Valley are capable of nurturing the finest of wine grapes, I find myself in the wine cellar of...

If I were to be entirely truthful, Prosecco is not a wine that I have paid a great deal of attention to over the years. Thinking back, my previous lack of enthusiasm probably has more to do with with some of my overzealous British WSET instructors harbouring unhealthy Champagne fixations than...

Winemaker Pierre Seillan is a man with a mission. A mission to make the very best Bordeaux blends in California. When the late Jess Jackson approached him just over 16 years ago and asked if it were possible to make a wine as great as the mighty Pomerol Château Petrus in Jackson’s...

If ever there were a wine region that forever seems to sit in the tall shadow of its neighbour it would be Bergerac. With the undoubtedly noble and much hallowed vineyards of St.-Emilion a literal stone’s throw away, Bergerac is so often overlooked, and this is such a great pity as both...

Chef Vikram Vij is an extremely canny man, of that I have no doubt. Thinking back over the multiple times I have seen him present kitchen demonstrations, I am convinced that he primes the room with the wonderful aromatics of roasted indian curry spices in order to makes his audience salivate...

An introduction by Malcolm Jolley… Marc Beyer calls himself “The White Knight of Fully Fruited Wines”, and the son of the man who gave his family its winery and reputation as one of Alsace’s greatest labels, Leon Beyer, takes his role seriously. “I am always...

Unless you have been out of the city all summer, you couldn’t help having bumped into the Fonda Lola team at some point. From their immensely successful seasonal Pop-Up in the back patio of Ossington Avenue’s Resposado Tequila Bar (where their team was often augmented by...

Those of you who are regular readers of Good Food Revolution will be well aware of our love for the annual Savour Stratford and Perth County Culinary Festival. Although we usually take the train down there, last Friday we merrily fired up our Waze app and asked it to take us out of the Toronto...

On The Twenty, nestled as it is in the quaint hamlet of Jordan, is a restaurant that has a very special place in my heart. Over my years in Canada it has been one of my favourite gastronomic destinations when travelling around Niagara Wine Country. This week we sit down after lunch service...

Jacques Lardière has worked as the winemaker for Maison Louis Jadot for 42 years. After announcing his retirement from the highly acclaimed winery, he stopped in Toronto as part of his farewell tour and gave this interview with Summer Hassam of Lifford Wine Agency. Bonne Chance,...

This week Good Food Revolution present an exclusive interview with Natural Winemaker Iago Bitarishvili at his small winery in the village of Chardakhi, Mtskheta, Georgia. As well as showing us his qvevri and giving us the opportunity to assist with the manual punchdowns, Iago explains the...

  Unless you happen to be one of the few who specialise in such things, I am willing to place a wager that most of our readers are unfamiliar with the Hungarian wine region on the shores of Lake Balaton, the largest lake in central Europe. Just the other week I had the opportunity to...

Good Food Revolution first ran into Australian Wine Writer back in 2010 at the Wellington Pinot Noir Festival, New Zealand and remember being most amused at his calling out of the amount of Brettanomyces in a number of the wines presented at one of the larger sit down tastings, what with his...

Having previously championed the wonders of Langdon Hall‘s Summer Barbecue series, we were especially delighted to discover that Chef Martin Juneau of Montreal’s acclaimed Pastaga restaurant would be visiting as Guest Chef upon the Friday evening we had chosen for our annual...

Ever since Craig McDonald joined Peller/Trius/Hillebrand/Thirty Bench as Head Winemaker we have seen exciting developments all across the board. The Hillebrand Showcase series has been around for quite some time now, but just recently the entire range has gone through quite the...

Around three and a half years ago I had the extreme pleasure of bumping into one of my heroes, the one and only Jamie Goode. Having always been a Scientist at heart, Goode’s writings upon the essential science of wine through his website Wine Anorak has always been of great appeal to me,...

Now, we have always been huge fans of Christopher Sealy and Giuseppe Anile’s west-Dundas West spot (at Gladstone), but we were recently most happy to see that they have expanded their menu from the usual salumi and cheese, giving control of the Midfield kitchen to veteran Toronto Chef...

A couple of weeks back Good Food Revolution had the pleasure of visiting Oyster Farmer Gaétan Dugas in Caraquet, New Brunswick. Gaétan’s family have been harvesting oysters on the Bay of Chaleur in the northeastern reaches of New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula for generations, and...

  What with it being the long weekend and all we were thinking that perhaps it would be better to hit you with something a little more lighthearted than usual… so rather than publish an interview with a serious Winemaker or Chef we decided to sit down for a chat with Kate Monster,...

As I was editing these videos Toronto Chefs Amanda Ray (Biff’s), Paul Boehmer (Boehmer), Mark Ota (416 Snack Bar), Thessavan Maniceavasakan (Southern Accent), and Kyle Deleary (Canoe) were outside in the bright Nova Scotian sunshine, grading and sorting oysters on the dock of Eagle...

As I was editing these videos Toronto Chefs Amanda Ray (Biff’s), Paul Boehmer (Boehmer), Mark Ota (416 Snack Bar), Thessavan Maniceavasakan (Southern Accent), and Kyle Deleary (Canoe) were outside in the bright Nova Scotian sunshine, grading and sorting oysters on the dock of Eagle...

Many moons ago, when I was working at the much lamented Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar, I was asked to start producing audio podcasts for the company website. After some initial reluctance to stack another responsibility along with the others, I then embraced the concept and spent my latter years...

Now in its second year, The Stop’s Night Market has in 12 months become thee essential Summer event for many a Toronto foodster. Selling out both nights in the what was literally the blink of an eye, this year’s Night Market raised $115,000 for The Stop’s critical anti-hunger...