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CB WINE PROGRAM: TORONTO’S MICHELIN GUIDE

By Franco Stalteri & Donato Carozza

n May 10th, 2022, the Mayor of Toron-

Oto, John Tory alongside Chef Daniel Boulud, representatives from the Michelin Guide, as well as Franco Stalteri and Donato Carozza from Charlie’s Burgers announced that the Michelin Guide was coming to Canada, with Toronto being the first city to have a guide. This is really exciting for us at the CB team, and it’s something we’ve been working on, and keeping a secret for, well, a really long time.

A BIG ARRIVAL

While the process is still steeped in secrecy, we are now able to tell you that we at Charlie’s Burgers planted the seed and started the project to bring the Michelin Guide to Toronto and Canada many years ago. We worked hand-in-hand with the Michelin Guide, the City of Toronto, and the Province of Ontario to help make this all happen. A lot of these meetings felt similar to the fun cloak and dagger secrecy we’ve been deploying in our dinners from the beginning: meeting with the mayor, flying secretly to Paris, and pushing hard to make this a reality for our beloved city. Why did we work so hard for this? Because we believe in Toronto’s food scene.

IN CELEBRATION OF TORONTO

Since our first dinners in 2009, our whole raison d’être has been the celebration of our city, its great chefs, restaurants, and food culture. Every time we have brought in celebrated chefs from around the world (including Michelin Star holders Chef Fergus Henderson from St. John’s in London, Chef Kobe Desramaults from In de Wulf in Belgium, and Chef Melissa Rodriguez from Del Posto, NYC), it was not only to bring

their amazing cuisine to Toronto, but to show the world that Toronto is also a great food destination, one with the talent and culture to rival the best food cities in the world.

Our passion for the restaurant industry in Toronto was the reason we started working on the Michelin Guide Toronto all those years ago. It was an honour, privilege, and life-long dream to be able to be involved in the Micheline Guide Toronto project since its inception. We can’t wait for this fall, when the very first Toronto guide will be unveiled and the Toronto Michelin stars announced!

FS & DC