CABANA GRILLE HOSTS SECOND TERASEN GAS GOURMET AND GRAPES GALA AT THE OKANAGAN FALL WINE FESTIVAL – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4
Celebrate Harvest with Top Okanagan Chefs and Wineries – Get a Ringside Seat for the Friendly Iron Chef Showdown Between Top BC Chefs Ned Bell and Wayne Martin
Cabana Bar and Grille is thrilled to be hosting 2009’s second Gourmet and Grapes Gala presented by Terasen Gas and part of the ten-day, 29th Okanagan Fall Wine Festival. Sold out this spring, Gourmet and Grapes has become one of the new signature Okanagan Wine Festival events. This time around, well-known Vancouver restaurateur/chef and Four Seasons alumni, Wayne Martin is stepping up to the plate to challenge spring winner and Cabana Executive Chef and Co-owner, Ned Bell.
This mixing, mingling and grazing event will boast food stations helmed by some of the Okanagan’s best chefs including: Ned Bell – Cabana Grille, Mathew Batey – Mission Hill, Malcolm Gibb – Wild Apple Restaurant, Reg Hendrickson – Dairy Farmers of Canada, Jeremy Luypen – Hotel Eldorado Dining Room, Roger Planiden – Great Estates of the Okanagan and Heath Cates – The Harvest Restaurant.
Participating wineries include: Mission Hill Family Estate Winery, Gray Monk Estate Winery, Tinhorn Creek Vineyards, Pentage Wines, Sandhill Vineyards, and Great Estates of the Okanagan including Nk’Mip Cellars, Sumac Ridge Estate Winery, See Ya Later Ranch, Jackson-Triggs Vintners and Inniskillin Okanagan Vineyards. Get up close and personal with your favourite vintners and chefs, sample and swirl the best of new fall releases and enjoy the excitement of the friendly Iron Chef showdown. Cabana’s own celebrity chef Ned Bell welcomes Wayne Martin, executive chef and co-owner of Vancouver’s Fraiche Restaurant, Crave Beachside and Crave Main for the fun cook-off that was a hit at the Okanagan Spring Wine Festival.
Chef Martin spent 16 years with the internationally famed Four Seasons Hotel Group, before deciding to “get back in the kitchen” in 2005 and opened his first restaurant – Crave Main , an extremely popular Lower Mainland eatery. Since then the award-winning chef and entrepreneur has been turning out refined classics at the elegant, mountain-top Fraîche Restaurant , named one of Canada’s Top Ten Best New Restaurants of 2008 by enRoute Magazine and the more casual seaside Crave Beachside which opened in West Vancouver in 2008.
Tickets are $79, include entrance, wine tastings, food stations, complimentary wine glass and entertainment and can be purchased through Ticketmaster by calling 250.860.1470 or going online to www.ticketmaster.ca. Event supporters include presenting sponsor Terasen Gas, Valley First Credit Union and Sysco Kelowna.
With a premier position on Lakeshore Road just steps from stunning Okanagan Lake, Cabana Grille is a globally inspired, locally created upscale eatery owned and operated by three local restaurateurs, Jay Blackford, Michael Borg and Ned Bell. The restaurant blends a casual, relaxed atmosphere with exceptional food and drink led by Executive Chef Ned Bell who honed his culinary prowess at renowned restaurants across Canada including Lumiere, Accolade, Senses, Murrieta’s, Redwater Grille and Vintage Steakhouse. Bell was a regular on Food Network Canada’s “Cook Like a Chef” and currently films “It’s Just Food” for CTV. Focusing on fresh, local produce cooked in innovative ways for a wide range of tastes and budgets.
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Cabana Bar and Grille
3799 Lakeshore Road
Kelowna, BC V1W 3K5
Tel: 250.763.1955
info@cabanagrille.com
www.cabanagrille.com
Fraiche Restaurant, Crave Main, Crave Beachside
Crave Restaurants
Fraiche Restaurants
