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A Life in Pursuit of Excellence
Chef Darren Mitchell lands at the Grey Eagle Resort & Casino — Fred Holliss “My true belief is to try and learn from as many people as you can,” says Chef Darren Mitchell, the Executive Chef – Casino Operations at Calgary’s Grey Eagle Resort & Casino, and, “If you don’t cook with passion and love […]
Father and Son Reunion
This is the first time we’ve interviewed a father-son combination here at Dining Out, and this first time is a really great start. Norm Flann and his son Blake are the combo behind BLAKE Canmore, PD3 by BLAKE, and YUGO EAT by BLAKE. Their newest endeavour, the flagship restaurant BLAKE Canmore opened around January of […]
From the Seaside to the Foothills
Chef Paul Stoffel’s Journey from youngest in class to classiest of the pack An interview with Chef Paul Stoffel, Chef/Owner of Q Haute — Fred Holliss Born in in the seaside town of Bournemouth, England, Chef Paul graduated youngest in his class at 15 not really knowing what he wanted to do. After an interview, […]
Scouting a Future on the Avenue
Glen Heal’s journey back to Calgary’s downtown — Fred Holliss Life has looped around a little for Glen. The first complete meal he ever cooked was when he was a kid camping with the Scouts, a passion he pursued until he was 25. Now here he is, with his own son, and Scouts are back […]
Kade Klimchuck
Legendary Alehouse Black Swan Ale House I studied business in University, and while doing so ended up managing the student bar and various other places in Regina, before moving to Calgary and taking on the Black Swan. The first thing I noticed about the Black Swan was that it was a very comfortable room. The […]
Chef Jen Ruszczak
I never thought I was going to get into cooking. I thought I was going into something you needed a university course for. Luckily enough I was in a high school that had a co-op program, they let you do three hours a day, three days a week. I thought I wanted to go into […]
Chef Mike Santos
Transformations… When we decided to transform Tyn Lounge into something else, we looked at the competition around the area and new trends in dining. At Tyn it was more of a fine dining French/ Italian/Mediterranean cuisine place. There were a bunch of different restaurants around this area that offered the same types of food, so […]
Chef Roy Oh
The word “Anju” means food that you eat with alcohol, so the food that we’re doing is not fine dining, it’s very casual, and I’m working with Korean drinking food as well as regular dishes. My vision for Anju is to introduce Korean food to the general population of Calgary, to make Korean food approachable, […]
Chef Peter Tudda
Stromboli Inn Were your parents restauranteurs when you were born? No. My dad was a zookeeper, believe it or not, at the Calgary Zoo. He was told he had gotten as high as he was going to. My mum could cook and he figured if he could feed the zoo animals… They started when I […]
Chef Jeff “Heffe” Clements
Metropolitan Grill I seem to have known I wanted to become a chef since the age of 14, because when we were at restaurants with my family I was always fascinated with the food preparation and watching the dynamics of a restaurant. My career began when I got my first dishwashing job at a hotel […]
Chef Beja Cassiano
Hogshead Canmore Growing up in a small, Ontario town on sixty acres, I was lucky enough to always be surrounded by amazing farm-grown produce and locally raised meats. My Dad, a culinary instructor and my inspiration, was always cooking the most amazing meals using ingredients from our back yard or the neighbouring farms. Being first […]
Chef Toshi Karino
Carino Japanese Bistro and Wine While working in Japan I gained my experience in wine sales, as a sushi chef, and as an apprentice cook in an Italian restaurant. In order to come to Canada I was hired as a sushi chef. Subsequently I was offered a job at Teatro as a cook where I […]
Chef Eben Brummit
Korq Winehouse & Kitchen I have a picture of myself at no more than eight years old standing on a step-stool over my parents’ stove cooking “goulash.” However, it wasn’t until mid high-school that I decided that my passion for cooking would become my career. I love the chaos and the fast pace of a […]
Chef Mauro Martina
OEB Breakfast Co. As a young child growing up in Italy, in the south of the peninsula to be exact, with vast lands of olive oil, pasta, pizza and amazing wine, it was hard not to be inspired. It all began when I grew up with my grandparents. I remember it as if it was […]
Chef Trevor Hopper
Smuggler’s Inn As a child the idea of cooking struck me as interesting. Though I did not fully understand the fundamentals of it, it still did not stop me from experimenting. From as early as I could remember I was creating, For one example, when I was 5 and my parents were entertaining guests I […]
