This week I chatted with Dimitri Antonopoulos, the co-owner and VP of Marketing for Experience Old Montreal, part of the Antonopoulos Group, a family-owned hospitality company that runs a number of boutique hotels, spas and restaurants in Montreal including Verses, Jacopo, Maggie Oakes, Kyo, Bevo, Méchant Boeuf, Modavie and the Vieux-Port Steakhouse. We talked about […]

We’re taking a week off, which you’ll understand if you’re in the podcast’s home province of Quebec, where we just call it the construction holiday. Where do you not want to be this Sunday afternoon? On a highway back to Montreal. But, if you are stuck in traffic (then or any other day), why not […]

We’re taking a week off, which you’ll understand if you’re in the podcast’s home province of Quebec, where we just call it the construction holiday. Where do you not want to be this Sunday afternoon? On a highway back to Montreal. But, if you are stuck in traffic (then or any other day), why not […]

In this episode, I chat with Time Out Market CEO (and former jetsetter) Didier Souillat about reopening Montreal’s Time Out Markets now, the updated timeline for opening new markets in Dubai and London post-Covid and the future of food halls. Plus, his favourite restaurant in the world and the first restaurant he went to in […]

In this episode, I chat with Time Out Market CEO (and former jetsetter) Didier Souillat about reopening Montreal’s Time Out Markets now, the updated timeline for opening new markets in Dubai and London post-Covid and the future of food halls. Plus, his favourite restaurant in the world and the first restaurant he went to in […]

Host Amie Watson chats with Chef Rhea Gilkes of Barbados restaurant Fusion Rooftop about restaurant and hotel closures, the future of the island’s tourism industry, Slow Food Barbados and the Chef’s Alliance and eating local because of Covid-19. They also talk about liming, what Rhea’s cooking at home with her family and what she’s cooking […]

Host Amie Watson chats with Chef Rhea Gilkes of Barbados restaurant Fusion Rooftop about restaurant and hotel closures, the future of the island’s tourism industry, Slow Food Barbados and the Chef’s Alliance and eating local because of Covid-19. They also talk about liming, what Rhea’s cooking at home with her family and what she’s cooking […]

In Part 2 of my conversation with The Globe & Mail restaurant critic Alexandra Gill, we talk about writing negative reviews these days, where you should go when you head back to restaurants, and what Alex has been cooking lately at home. Plus, a quasi-lightning round and the best (and most interesting) restaurant meals of […]

In Part 2 of my conversation with The Globe & Mail restaurant critic Alexandra Gill, we talk about writing negative reviews these days, where you should go when you head back to restaurants, and what Alex has been cooking lately at home. Plus, a quasi-lightning round and the best (and most interesting) restaurant meals of […]

This week I chatted with The Globe & Mail restaurant critic Alexandra Gill about how she’s been writing about and reviewing restaurants in recently reopened Vancouver. We also chatted farmers, supply chains and what percentage of Canadian restaurants she expects will make it through Covid, plus unexpected upsides of reopening like increased elbow space. Come […]