To showcase the next generation of culinary talent, students from the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts (PICA) and Vancouver Community College’s (VCC) School of Hospitality and Culinary Arts, collaborated on designing, preparing and presenting a unique menu at today’s reception to celebrate the launch of the MICHELIN Guide Vancouver.

MICHELIN and Destination Vancouver sign the menu at today’s announcement of the MICHELIN Guide Vancouver. From left to right: Chef Matthew Kammerer, The Harbour House Inn; Royce Chwin, President & CEO, Destination Vancouver; Kennedy Stewart, Mayor of Vancouver; Gwendal Poullennec, International Director, MICHELIN Guides; The Michelin Man (CNW Group/Destination Vancouver)

Chef Matthew Kammerer, Executive Chef of the two Michelin-starred and Michelin Green Star restaurant The Harbor House Inn in Mendocino County, was asked to work with the students and share the sensibility of his restaurant. “When sourcing ingredients for our menu, we first look towards our farm and the surrounding area along our coast to search for unique and high -quality ingredients,” he explains. 

He challenged them to look for ingredients available locally, produced and packaged sustainably and prepared with minimal waste.

The result was an imaginative selection which included sea cucumbers, foraged apricots, sage and spruce, sea urchin bottarga, goat milk cheese and strawberries. If it wasn’t produced locally from local ingredients, it was not used – right down to the Cowichan Valley balsamic vinegar, Vancouver Island sea salt and artisan honey.

The inaugural edition of the MICHELIN Guide Vancouver with the selection of local restaurants receiving honors will be announced this fall. Inspectors award MICHELIN Stars – One, Two or Three – to unparalleled cuisine. The Guides also bestow Bib Gourmand ratings on restaurants that offer great quality food at good prices, and award the MICHELIN Green Star to restaurants that are leaders in sustainable gastronomy.

With today’s announcement, Vancouver joins Toronto as the only MICHELIN Guide destinations in Canada and among the seven in North America.

SOURCE Destination Vancouver

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