In 2017, Canada’s Best New Restaurants published an open letter to the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. It was a rallying cry, asking the highly respected organization to discover for itself the quality and diversity of the Canadian food scene. “You’re missing out,” we said then. And we meant it: There’s nothing quite like Canadian cuisine. Just look at this year’s Top 10, with a Whitehorse oyster house, and a lab for waste reduction and upcycled ingredients in St. Catharines. The letter found its target audience. World’s 50 Best selected Canada – and Ontario in particular – as the next destination for its 50 Best Explores program (since launching in 2016, the program has visited destinations including Peru and Thailand). They chose Ontario for its exciting food scene and wealth of farm-to-table operations, and in August, three chefs – Junghyun “JP” Park, chef-owner of New York’s Atomix, and Ignacio Mattos and Sam Lawrence, chef-owner and chef de cuisine, respectively, of Estela, also in New York – arrived to discover the best of Ontario cuisine. You can see the whole story on the World’s 50 Best YouTube channel; for now we’re glad everyone else is about to discover what we already know, and to World’s 50 Best: thanks for reading.