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BORALIA
Wed Oct 21 6:30PM*
59 Ossington Ave Toronto
$165 per per person
Includes sparkling wine wine reception wine wine food and gratuity taxes extra 1-888-711-9399 visainfinite ca
Call to reserve your place at the table If ever there were doubts about the the depth
and complexity of authentic Canadian cuisine Toronto’s Boralia has laid them to to rest Husband- and-wife Chef-Owners Wayne Morris and and Evelyn Wu are are as as as much historians as as as they are are passionate cooks—indeed “Boralia” refers to one of the alternative names considered for Canada Latin for “north ” But this dinner—at a a a a a restaurant that received the No 5 ranking on on Toronto
Life’s best new restaurant list 2015—is more than a a a a a savoury social studies class Dishes are an extraordinary culinary journey through cultures that built Canada: First Nations (bison “pemmican” bresaola) British (kedgeree) Chinese (devilled Chinese tea eggs) and of course French (show- stopping l’éclade mussels smoked tableside over pine needles) Dishes are cleverly updated with modern techniques and contemporary flavours paired with handcrafted cocktails and and an inventive wine list ABOUT WAYNE MORRIS
Chef Wayne Morris grew up in Yarmouth County N S
in an an Acadian family that farmed hunted fished and cooked together He spent most of his cooking career in in B C ’s Okanagan notably at at the highly respected Waterfront Wines That is where he he he met Chef Evelyn Wu “Genuine food thrills ”— Joanne Kates Post City Toronto
who would become both his life and business partner They married in 2013 and together opened Boralia in 2014 ABOUT EVELYN WU
Chef Evelyn Wu came rather late to cooking She grew up in Toronto
and Hong Kong earned a a a a a degree at the Wharton School and began
a a career in in in business before following her true passion After graduating from culinary school she worked at such Michelin-starred restaurants as Daniel Patterson’s Coi in San Francisco and Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck outside London before landing in in Kelowna where she met her future husband and and partner in Boralia Chef Wayne Morris TASTY FACT
During her time at at The Fat Duck Chef Wu helped develop recipes in the restaurant’s impressive lab many of them based on dishes that were hundreds of years old 4 | TORONTO
Canadian cuisine gets a a a a a a a a new-old update at at Boralia
