Canadian Culinary Championships 2011
The competitors are given their mystery wine at the Thursday evening orientation.
Chef Michael Moffatt and his team (Ottawa)
Chef Martin Juneau shows where he's from (Montreal)
Co-founder and CEO, Stephen Leckie
Chef Jeremy Charles (St. John's)
Friday night's Wine Pairing Competition
Friday night's Wine Pairing Competition
James Chatto and last year's culinary champion Mathieu Cloutier presents the people's choice award.
Olympian Adam Kreek
Chef Dan Walker plates his black box creation.
Chef Michael Moffatt plates his black box creation.
Chef Jeremy Charles plates his black box creation.
Olympian Adam Kreek and guests.
Chef Dan Walker
Chef Jeremy Charles.
Chef Martin Juneau
Olympians in attendance.
Performance by Colin James
Gold - Martin Juneau, Silver - Jeremy Charles, Bronze - Robert Clark.
The El Dorado hotel gears up for Friday night's wine pairing challenge.
Chef Duncan Ly and his team (Calgary)
Chef Frank Dodd and team (Toronto)
Chef Dan Walker and team (Saskatoon)
National Wine Advisor, David Lawrason
National Culinary Advisor, James Chatto
Chef Frank Dodd speaks about his wine pairing
Friday night's Wine Pairing Competition
The reveal of the mystery wine from La Stella.
People's choice award winner Jeremy Charles.
Chef Andrew Fung plates his black box creation (Edmonton)
Chef Robert Clark plates his black box creation.
Chef Martin Juneau plates his black box creation.
Chef Duncan Ly plates his black box creation.
Chef Frank Dodd plates his black box creation.
Gold, Silver and Bronze medals created by Birks.
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Chef Duncan Ly.
Musician Colin James
Chef Robert Clark
Chef Andrew Fung
The judges deliberate.
The Culinary Championship trophy presented by Birks and 3 knife awards presented by Cosmo Knives.
Host of the evening gala, Terry David Mulligan.
Olympian Adam Kreek leads the athlete parade.
Musician Barney Bentall entertains the crowd.
Harry McWaters
Last year's culinary champions, Mathieu Cloutier and JP St. Denis.
Adam Kreek on backup vocals.