Nancy Matsumoto 11/4/22 Nancy Matsumoto 11/4/22

17 cities, 23,000 kilometres, one undercover writer — I zigzagged across the country to pick Canada’s Best New Restaurants 2022

“When I tell people I spent a good part of my summer traversing the country to select Canada’s Best New Restaurants, a look of envy passes over their faces.”

Nancy Matsumoto 11/1/22 Nancy Matsumoto 11/1/22

Canada’s Best New Restaurants 2022: The Top 10

The Top 10 list is back by popular demand. Our anonymous food critic reprised her culinary marathon, landing in no fewer than 17 cities to taste-test menus at the most tantalizing restaurant openings across the country (polishing off 226 dishes along the way).

Nancy Matsumoto 3/5/22 Nancy Matsumoto 3/5/22

Music at Work

City Pop is not your typical restaurant kitchen music. While many male-dominated kitchens skew toward “hip hop and metal, often aggressive metal that makes you move fast, City Pop offers a special, more rarefied niche in the kitchen, emotionally elevating rather than punishing.

Nancy Matsumoto 4/18/21 Nancy Matsumoto 4/18/21

From cheese distributor to chef, members of restaurant industry reveal what life is like one year into COVID-19 pandemic

A sampling of voices from across the restaurant supply chain reveals how the pandemic has altered lives, laying bare both the inequities and strengths of the Canadian restaurant ecosystem.

Nancy Matsumoto 9/25/20 Nancy Matsumoto 9/25/20

8 Things to Love About Canada’s Restaurant Comeback

“There are probably 600 or 700 small organic farms throughout the province that are highly resilient,” says Fortier. “If the whole [food] chain breaks – and I don’t think this is the last time that will happen – these farms are there to feed local villages. To me, this is a really good first step.”

Nancy Matsumoto 3/19/18 Nancy Matsumoto 3/19/18

After Years Of Violence, Chef Offers Colombian Farmers Pride And Profit

Columbian chef Leonor Espinosa has made it her mission to revive traditional agriculture, ancestral foodways and culinary know-how among rural, mainly indigenous and Afro-Colombian people.