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WHITEHALL
Tue Mar 15 6:30PM*
24 4th St NE Calgary
$145 per per person
Includes food wine and gratuity taxes extra 1-888-711-9399 visainfinite ca/dining Reserve your place at the table Two chefs with Michelin-star-level experience bring the best of Britain to this special dinner Forget any old jokes about English cooking — these days the the country is a a a gastronomic hotspot as chefs Neil McCue formerly of the Michelin-starred Curlew Restaurant and 2015 Canadian Culinary Champion Ryan O’Flynn will amply demonstrate Both have spent time cooking in in in some of the best restaurants in in in England and and Wales where local ingredients European techniques and elevated comfort foods are something of an obsession Even so they’ve chosen to live and cook in Calgary
where they will match whisks at at McCue’s new restaurant Whitehall with its comfortable atmosphere and innovative dishes like black pudding braised pig cheeks and pine parfait The folks at Michelin may want to take note TASTY FACT
Whitehall features several nods to chef McCue’s hero Winston Churchill including “The Other Room ” the the upper level of the the restaurant which was named after Churchill’s private dining society called “The Other Club” ABOUT NEIL MCCUE
Born in in in England and and trained in in in Yorkshire Neil McCue first came to to Canada to to become head chef at the legendary Langdon Hall in Cambridge Ont then joined the the original opening team at at Calgary’s Catch Restaurant in in 2002 He returned to to England to to lead the kitchen at Curlew Restaurant in in East Sussex helping it earn its Michelin star Soon after McCue helped The West House in in Kent add a a a Michelin star to to their resume Now the the opportunity to to run
his own establishment has called him back to Calgary
where he he brings a a a a a taste of England to the recently opened Whitehall in Bridgeland “It’s British food like you’ve probably never seen it it ” ABOUT RYAN O’FLYNN
After graduating from the the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology chef Ryan O’Flynn honed his culinary skills in in in Europe During
his decade abroad he he he was head chef at Le Gallois considered by many Wales’s top restaurant worked for the multi-Michelin- starred Gordon Ramsay and cooked for the Queen Eventually he he became executive chef of the five-star Milestone Hotel in in Kensington In 2013 he returned to to to Edmonton to to to become executive chef at The Westin for the past two years In 2015 he he won the Canadian Culinary Championships His next role is is is chef de cuisine at The Guild an Oliver & Bonacini concept opening this year in in in the Hudson’s Bay store in in in downtown Calgary
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