How do Canadian Restaurants promote Canadian Food?!
This if for a project i have and would appreciate anyone who can answer. As many answers as possible would be great. Thank you!
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They use local ingredients, and often name the sources/farms for each product. Here are three restaurants in Ottawa that all use local/sustainable products:
Whalesbone Oyster House
Murray Street Restaurant
Fraser Cafe
You can check their menus, which often list the farms they get their products from.
Well it very much depends on which part of Canada the restaurant is located.
For example... i live in Vancouver (on the west coast) and some of the best places to dine here feature the freshest local ingredients the coast has to offer; ingredients that entice such as:
- alberta beef
- wild salmon
- fresh local crab
- fresh oysters
- local mussels and clams
- fresh 'Salt Spring Island' goat cheese
Restaurants that feature just a few of these items on their menu are usually the place to be. Fresh/local items are all the rage, and on the west coast we have copious amounts of fresh seafood that draw people to restaurants that feature it.
Just to chime in my 2 cents as a former chef with a Canadian hotel chain and worked over 20 year in Canada and abroad, we always used local, from when I worked in B.C to Nova Scotia and in Ontario here, we were the first hotels to have rooftop gardens, mostly herbs and small fruits, now some have very extensive ones, the foods in most restaurants can be traced to around or within a 100 to 200 mile radius.
We even did theme nights and served things like musk ox, caribou, ptarmigan, moose, wild game and foraged wild veg and mushrooms, but our farming and food service industry is well suited for our climate and need, we do have to in the winter bring in produce from the U.S until our growing seasons start
The following sites might have some information you can use.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Ch…
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/salutes…
http://foodday.ca/food-day-2010/news/a-m…
In Quebec at least, you'll see lots of restaurants offering a 'table d'hote' menu. It's the host's table, literally, and many restaurants use it to feature local foods.
for my restaurant i use certified alberta beef best in the world in my opinion
