Vancouver Mag's 2009 Restaurant Awards

[barolo]

Vancouver Magazine's 2009 Restaurant Awards are posted here

A little - not especially surprising - changing of the guard this year.

[eatrustic]

There's also a piece about Umberto and all the chefs who've worked for him and who are successful on their own.

They mention that both Mario Enero (La Rua) and Barbara-jo McIntosh (Books to Cooks) worked as cooks for him. Never knew that, I thought they were Front of House..........

[Oyster Guy]

It is good to see that the judges (even if they are a whole year late) give Melissa Craig her well deserved kudos.

Having won the Gold Medal Plates Canadian Culinary Championships in 2008, one wonders what took them so long to realize this young woman's talents.

Congrats to my former employers on their long deserved and way overdue award.

Nice to see the editors actually paying attention to what is going on in the culinary world rather than appearing to reward the establishment spending the most advertising dollar as in past years.

Congrats again to Melissa and Andre as they so totally deserve this recognition!

Kudos to the editors for finally realizing that there is a lot of talent out there that has been overlooked for years.

Keep up the good work.

Edited April 15, 2009 by Oyster Guy (log)