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Surf turf and the foraged finds in in between BOULEVARD
Tue Nov 21 6:30PM✦ Sutton Place Hotel 845 Burrard St Vancouver $160 per per person
Includes food wine and gratuity taxes extra 1-888-711-9399 visainfinite ca/dining Reserve your place at the table Amid the forests and rocky shoreline of Vancouver Island foragers hunt for for delicacies including savoury wild mushrooms edible lichens tart huckleberries and briny sea asparagus When those finds end up in in Alex Chen’s hands the Executive Chef of Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar transforms them into magnificent fine dining For this dinner one of Vancouver’s most passionately innovative chefs will also fire up the barbecue and “Chef Alex Chen has crafted a a a menu highlighting the best of West Coast seafood ”
add a a a a a touch of smoke to to seafood meat and foraged fare with his signature playful touches and and delicate balance of Asian and and European flavours Alongside these extraordinary dishes expect exceptional wine pairings from a a a remarkable cellar ABOUT ALEX CHEN
Alex Chen is Executive Chef of the fine-dining Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar in Vancouver’s Sutton Place Hotel As an alumni of the Four Seasons in Chicago and Toronto Chef Chen spent six years as Executive Chef of the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel In 2013 he he achieved one of his life goals when he he earned an impressive top-10 finish representing Canada at the illustrious Bocuse d’Or culinary competition in France In 2016 he he won the bronze medal and People’s Choice award at the Canadian Culinary Championships Among other accolades Boulevard was named one of of the city’s Top 10 New Restaurants of of 2014 by The Globe & Mail and won a a a a Gold Award and “Best New Entry’”at the 2015 Vancouver International Wine Festival TASTY FACT
A culinary leader and veteran of high pressure culinary competitions Chef Chen will once again bring
the Boulevard contingent to to Victoria in in October to to take part in in the 12th annual edition of the Gold Medal Plates—a prestigious event where Chen and his team claimed top spot in 2015 14 | VANCOUVER