A word about the ganache: if you've never made it yourself, you might think it was the stuff of hard-core pastry chefs, along the lines of praline éclairs and spun sugar.
Mains $13-$13-$26 "curriculumculum" at chef Michael Solomonov's Zahav has changed very little since its opening, and that's not out of laziness: eight years on, his take on modern Israeli cuisine is still essential – there's still nothing else quite like it around.
For visitors, all this activity means a revived downtown core with restaurants whose chefs — and prices — could vie with those in Toronto or Montreal; spruced-up, outlying neighborhoods; and new places to stay like the Hotel Arts near the cultural heart of the city, or, the west-end Sandman Hotel & Suites, just across from Canada Olympic Park, site of the 1988 Winter Games.
We had already insulted the chef to the core.
His policy was simple: "I believe the key to success, the core, the essence of a chef, is work.
In a way, you have to hate all of him – the core of the warm-hearted chef is wrapped in threads of the man who made this full-body cringe of a video starring Ed Sheeran, Alesha Dixon, the dying gasps of Paul McCartney's credibility and every single size-L checkered shirt Fat Face has ever stocked.
Although this tiny island state now has a host of expensive gourmet venues linked to some of the world's most famous chefs, at its core is a vibrant culture of street food at very affordable prices.
I'm not a hard-core foodie, but I knew my chef wife would have fallen for the "Mercadão" the instant she walked through the door.
— Glenn Collins Serious Eats: When a French chef starts to fiddle with the core elements of a burger, weird things ensue.
Since Mr. Pfeiffer helped him teach at the World Pastry Forum in Las Vegas, where he was a core instructor last year, Mr. Joy has been working with chefs throughout the world.
The chef, Michael White, varies traditional Italian food while staying rooted in the core principles of Italian cooking.
