Canada’s Best New Restaurants 2008

The Foodies

Introducing the cross-country panel that tabled the contenders for Canada’s Best New Restaurants:

Mary Bailey publishes Edmonton’s City Palate and founded the city’s Slow Food convivium.

Stéphanie Bois-Houde, the food critic for Le Soleil in Quebec City, has just published Solutions Restos, a guide to Quebec City’s best restaurants.

Linda Bramble is a Niagara-region wine educator and journalist who writes on wine and food travel.

Jillian Brown edits Ciao!, a Winnipeg food, fashion and home magazine.

Rémy Charest, an editor at Le Soleil in Quebec City, has been writing about food and wine for over 10 years and blogs with abandon on winecase.wordpress.com. 

Cinda Chavich is a journalist and author whose food, wine and travel reporting appears in The Globe and Mail and Avenue magazine and on CBC Radio. 

Jennifer Cockrall-King publishes the culinary newsletter The Edible Prairie Journal and freelances from her home bases of Edmonton and Naramata, B.C.

Ron Eade, the food editor at the Ottawa Citizen, shares his passion on his blog, Omnivore’s Ottawa, at ottawacitizen.com.

Liz Feltham, a former professional chef, is the long-time food writer for The Coast: Halifax’s Weekly.

John Gilchrist reviews restaurants for CBC Radio, writes about food for the Calgary Herald and has written eight guides on dining in the Calgary area. 

Gary Hynes founded, edits and publishes British Columbia’s bimonthly EAT magazine.

Pierre Jury, the food columnist for Ottawa’s Le Droit, picks travel destinations based on food rather than beaches or museums.

CJ Katz is the publisher of savourlife.ca, Saskatchewan’s online food and drink magazine, and the culinary host of CTV Saskatchewan’s The Wheatland Café. 

Bartley Kives writes about politics, food and travel for Winnipeg Free Press and is the author of A Daytripper’s Guide to Manitoba.

Marie-Claude Lortie, the food critic at Montreal’s La Presse newspaper, is the author of the restaurant guide Solutions Restos.

Philippe Mollé fills the pages of Elle Québec and Saveurs de France with his food writing when he’s not travelling to the world’s best markets for Canal Évasion.

Heidi Noble, the author of Menus for an Orchard Table, and husband Michael Dinn run Joie Wines in Naramata, B.C. 

Charlene Rooke is the Vancouver-based editor-in-chief of Western Living, Western Canada’s lifestyle magazine covering travel, food and wine, homes and design.

Amy Rosen, who has eaten her way across Canada twice for enRoute, writes and illustrates the weekly Dish column in the National Post.

Michael Smith, the host of Food Network Canada’s Chef at Home and Chef at Large, is an award-winning cookbook author based in PEI.

Bill Spurr is the restaurant critic for Halifax’s The Chronicle Herald and a judge for Gold Medal Plates and the Canadian Culinary Championship.

Chris Mason Stearns is a Vancouver-based writer and photographer whose work can be seen and read in enRoute, Western Living, Vancouver Magazine and EAT. 

Margaret Swaine, whose columns appeared in Toronto Life for 25 years, is the weekly wine columnist at the National Post and the Toronto restaurant critic for Gault Millau.

Karl Wells is the food critic for Newfoundland and Labrador’s daily newspaper, The Telegram, and hosts One Chef One Critic on Rogers TV.

George Wybouw launched the Atlantic Canada World Wine Festival and initiated the Slow Food movement in New Brunswick.