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January 30th - First in a Series Planned to Showcase ‘45 World Beers’ & Modern Comfort Food Menu Top Chef Canada Winner Dale MacKay, well-known for his lingering, multi-course wine-paired dinners, has expanded his repertoire in salute to ensemble Tap’s extensive ‘45 world beers’ cellar and modern comfort food menu. On Monday January 30th, Belgian Beer [...]

Top Chef Canada winner Dale MacKay takes on ten talented BC chefs at The Westin Bayshore on November 4th After finishing second in 2009 (to Rob Feenie) and again in 2010 (to Robert Clark), Top Chef Canada winner Dale MacKay will go for the top prize at the 2011 Gold Medal Plates competition in Vancouver [...]

Top Chef Canada contender promises fun & affordable dining just-off-Robson During the final week before opening his first restaurant as Executive Chef and Proprietor, Dale MacKay is wishing for more hours in the day. Mackay’s ensemble restaurant and bar begins dinner service on Tuesday May 10, 2011, offering reservations from 5pm-11pm Tuesday through Sunday, with [...]

Olympic Host: Adam van Koeverden Celebrity Host: Ron James Entertainment: Jim Cuddy, Colin James and Barney Bentall with Keynote Address by Alexandre Bilodeau Chair: Arthur Griffiths Gold Medal Plates is the ultimate celebration of Canadian Excellence in cuisine, wine, the arts and athletic achievement. Gold Medal Plates Vancouver Friday, October 29, 2010 6:00 pm Sheraton [...]

Proprietors David and Manjy Sidoo and partner Chef Daniel Boulud are extraordinarily pleased to announce that Lumière restaurant in Vancouver received the coveted Five Diamond Award Designation from AAA/CAA for 2011 – a designation awarded to just one British Columbia restaurant, and reserved for less than one-quarter of one percent of the over 26,000 AAA [...]

Ever dream of sharing a kitchen with a Grand Chef Relais & Chateaux?  Well now you can. Enjoy a private cooking lesson for eight, plus dinner with Lumière Executive Chef Dale MacKay. Chef Mackay invites you to rendezvous with him in the Lumière kitchen at 4:30 pm on Monday, March 29th. After the class, sit [...]

On Friday, October 23, Chefs and Olympians gathered, and the Chef’s competed to win the Gold Medal Plates.  Cactus Club’s Rob Feenie took Gold, Lumiere’s Dale McKay the Silver and Cioppino’s Pino Posteraro Bronze.  National winners will compete on November 27 and 28 in Vancouver, the home of the 2008 Gold Medal Plate winner, Blue Water’s [...]