Hastings House Country House Hotel and Dining Room on Salt Spring Island is pleased to announce our guest chef program is returning for 2011—top BC chefs have been invited to prepare multiple-course dinners in the Hastings House kitchen, incorporating Salt Spring Island’s produce, seafood, and meats. Wine pairings featuring BC wines will be offered to complement the extraordinary menus.
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Salt Spring Island is a food-lover’s paradise, blessed with a mild Mediterranean-like climate and devoted growers and producers renowned for their organic fruits and vegetables, meats, and cheeses. Fresh-caught, wild seafood rounds out nature’s local pantry. In recent years, island wineries have further added to the diversity of the local harvest. Diners can look forward to amazing experiences as the celebrated guest chefs each put their own personal spin on Salt Spring Island flavours.
Help support the Salt Spring Abattoir Project
These events will also raise awareness of the health and economic benefits of using local, organic and sustainable ingredients and bring into focus how local farming is being challenged by changing regulations that favour large
agri-businesses. A portion of the proceeds of the Guest Chef dinners will go to Island Natural Growers to benefit the Salt Spring Abattoir Project.
Links of interest:
Livestock production on Salt Spring farms has decreased 50% in last 5 years
Chefs Across The Water Schedule
June 27
Seven course meal prepared by the returning chefs from 2010:
John Bishop, Sean Brennan, Frank Pabst, Jean-Francis and Alessandra Quaglia, Pino Posteraro and Hastings House Chef Marcel Kauer
$120.00 Per person, wine pairings $45.00 per person
July 18
Five course dinner by Vikram Vij
$100.00 per person, cocktail pairings $40.00
Aug 15
Five course dinner By Ernst Dorfler
$100.00 per person, wine pairings $40.00
Sept 12
Five course dinner by Michel Jacob
$100.00 per person, wine pairings $40.00
Oct 3
Five course dinner by Tojo
$100.00 per person, wine & Sake pairings $40.00
