Locally sourced ingredients—including honey from the 14th floor rooftop hives—flavor sustainable and seasonal cuisine
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Dining out means not having to look up dinner recipes at work, allowing you to get back to what you're there to do: defend your edits of the Event Horizon Wikipedia page. Explore the outer reaches of dining with this Groupon.
The Deal
C$99 for a three-course chef-created prix fixe dinner for two (Up to C$186 value)
The buzz surrounding the Fairmont Royal York doesn't just come from reporters or bloggers. It comes from the bees—as many as 350,000 of them—that reside in six carefully managed hives in the hotel's rooftop garden. Every year, beekeepers here harvest an average of 450 pounds of honey, some of which ends up a few floors down in the kitchen of Epic Restaurant. There, sustainability-conscious chefs bake the sweet local syrup into pastries and drizzle it onto artisanal cheese plates, a testament to their commitment to eating locally.
That commitment doesn't stop with honey. From organic chicken raised at nearby Yorkshire Valley Farms to ramps foraged in the Ontario woods, most of the savory ingredients on Epic Restaurant's seasonal menus are sourced from within 100 kilometers of the hotel. Some herbs, such as the chili that flavored a recent seafood pasta, are also harvested from the rooftop.
The chefs attend to ocean sustainability by using seafood approved by the Vancouver Aquarium's Ocean Wise program, including Vancouver Island spot prawns, Atlantic halibut, and Nova Scotia sea bream.
Food was impeccable, well prepared with gorgeous presentation. Service was professional and delightful. What a treat. My wife is a chef and they did not disappoint, her standards are quite strict.
Highly recommended
Lyle B. ·
August 17, 2014
food and service was great
Trevor N. ·
August 16, 2014
The food is very rich but amazingly good. Nice atmosphere.
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