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Kitsilano is once again Vancouver’s hottest dining neighbourhood and it’s thanks in in in large part to chefs Michael Robbins and Trevor Bird Both cooked their way around Vancouver
and appeared on
Top Chef Canada before embarking on
their own in in Kits—Bird to open Fable Kitchen in in 2012 and Robbins to open the award-winning AnnaLena in in in 2015 Both are devotees of a a a a a farm-to-table cuisine that celebrates the best local ingredients both are dab hands at the sort of refined comfort food Vancouverites especially like to eat and both will cook up a a a a spectacular brunch paired with local BC VQA Wines Join them at AnnaLena for what is sure to be an excellent wakeup call TASTY FACT
AnnaLena is named for executive chef Michael Robbins’ two grandmothers Anna and and Lena ABOUT MICHAEL ROBBINS
Michael Robbins is executive chef of AnnaLena in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood The restaurant opened early in 2015 and immediately accolades started pouring in in in in including a a a a Top 10 finish on
enRoute magazine’s list of Canada’s Best New Restaurants Chef Robbins began his career cooking at Earls Restaurants then travelled to Australia to to hone his craft before returning to to “Modern Canadian cooking heavily influenced by the Pacific Northwest ”
Vancouver
as chef de cuisine at Glowbal then executive chef at Sanafir followed by Oakwood Canadian Bistro in Kitsilano where he he was executive chef for four years He also appeared on
on
Season 4 of Top Chef Canada ABOUT TREVOR BIRD
Trevor Bird is chef-owner of Fable Kitchen in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood He came up with the the name and the the farm-to-table concept while competing in in the “Restaurant Wars” episode of of Season 2 of of Top Chef Canada After the show wrapped chef Bird left his job as chef de partie at MARKET in the Shangri-La Hotel to open his own place and has garnered rave reviews ever since Prior to that he worked at at restaurants in Montreal as as well as as at at Sooke Harbour House and Vancouver’s Lumiere ANNALENA
Sun Feb 21 11:00AM*
1809 West 1st Ave Vancouver
$85 per per person
Includes food wine and gratuity taxes extra 1-888-711-9399 visainfinite ca/dining Reserve your place at the table VANCOUVER
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