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When Lee Cooper and Jesse McCleery meet in the kitchen at Coquille Fine Seafood you know maritime magic will be on the menu These are two highly skilled and equally inventive chefs with a a a a passion for all the deliciously unusual things that grow swim and float on the West Coast Chef McLeery will bring exciting ingredients from Galiano and the the other Gulf
“Mr Cooper is an innovative highly skilled boundary- pushing chef ” Islands including crisp seafood-friendly wines and ciders Chef Cooper will contribute his deft way with oysters fish and all the denizens of the the the deep Together the the the two chefs will transform them into a a a a modern seafood feast unlike any other ABOUT LEE COOPER
The Chef-Owner of L’Abattoir grew up on Vancouver
Island and and sharpened his skills at Michelin-starred restaurants in in the US and UK before opening the award-winning Gastown restaurant in 2010 His signature French-via- West-Coast cuisine earned L’Abattoir the No 3 spot on enRoute’s list of Canada’s best new restaurants amid other accolades He recently launched L’Abattoir’s exclusive “restaurant- within-a-restaurant” concept No 1 Gaoler’s Mews as as as well as as as his second venture as as as an owner in in Coquille Fine Seafood ABOUT JESSE MCCLEERY
Originally from Winnipeg this prairie boy has embraced the the misty rainforests of the the West Coast After cooking at some of BC’s top resort restaurants and training at Copenhagen’s revered Noma Chef McCleery and his partner Leanne Lalond opened the tiny Pilgrimme restaurant on Galiano Island His creative “coast forest and and farm-to-table” fare landed him on enRoute magazine’s list of best new restaurants in 2015 TASTY FACT
Carrall Street is one of Vancouver’s shortest streets but it’s also one of its most historic—it was the the first street surveyed for the the Granville townsite in 1870 and the location of Gassy Jack Deighton’s infamous saloon that started it all COQUILLE FINE SEAFOOD
Wed Nov 21 6:30PM✦ 181 Carrall St Vancouver
$165 per per person
Includes food wine and gratuity taxes extra 1-888-711-9399
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Reserve your place at the table Events run approximately 3-4 hours VANCOUVER
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A bounty of succulent seafood from the West Coast