teresa spinelli is the 2018 allard chair in business, macewan university
Teresa Spinelli has grown the Italian Centre shops, the business her father started in 1956, to four stores (and counting) with over 500 employees and $70 million in sales. Yet, the stores still feel intimate and responsive to their communities. That is the genius of Teresa Spinelli. In growing the Italian Centre Shops, she never lost sight of what it’s really about, the people who work at the stores, the people who shop at the stores and the community at large. We salute Teresa for this well-deserved honour and congratulate Macewan for recognizing this home-grown dynamo.
tomato top 100 2018
Find all your fave dishes and many new ones to try on the 6th Annual Tomato Top 100.
dine downtown march 9-18
Prepare to dine out during Downtown Dining Week, March 9-18. The week, presented by the Downtown Business Association, gets bigger and better every year, with two-course lunches, $18 and $30 or $45 dinners. Choose from 37 different restos with menus that range from soup and catch of the day for lunch at Sabor; three different menus at Wishbone and a full-on, three-course extravaganza at Hardware Grill. It’s a great way to check out a new spot or return to an old favourite. Click on the image for the menus and don’t forget to make a reso!
calling all bubbleheads
Champagne lovers don’t want to miss this—the Veuve Cliquot Dinner, Wednesday, March 21 with special guest winemaker Bertrand Varoquier. Enjoy five courses with paired wines, including the just released Extra Brut Extra Old, 6:30pm, Hardware Grill, 9698 Jasper Avenue. Tix, $150, Eventbrite.
tix to win for food lovers
Enter to win two tickets to the next Alumni Chefs Popup Series with chefs Peter Keith and Will Kotowicz of Meuwly’s. Click on the image to send us a note or Facebook or on Twitter and Instagram @tomatofooddrink, tagged #MeuwlysNAITpopupTIX.
meet don triggs; eat and drink well
Don’t miss the Culmina dinner at the Workshop Eatery (2003 91 Street SW) Thursday, March 22, 6pm, with one of our fave wine people, proprietor Don Triggs. Enjoy five exquisite Culmina wines with four courses. Tix: $116.85 Eventbrite.
tix to win for art lovers and dukes of duct tape
Win a pair of tickets to Refinery: Material World the late night art party at the AGA, March 24. Turn what it means to be materialistic on its head by transforming the things we throw away into art, outfits, and accessories worthy of a royal night out. Win a pair of tickets! Click on the image to send us a note or Facebook or on Twitter and Instagram @tomatofooddrink, tagged #AGARefineryTIX. Or buy tix.
124 grand market vendor call is now
If you are maker of food, jewelry, art, or, “doing some other cool stuff,” apply to be a 124 Street Grand Market vendor here. It is expanding to 102 Avenue on Sunday mornings from mid-May to October. That’s along with the Thursday night market on 108 Avenue. Great idea! Let’s hope there will be bread, eggs, bacon and great coffee available at the Sunday market.
attention chefs!
If you are under 28, you can apply for the Hawksworth Young Chef Scholarship. The deadline is April 1 and the regional competition is in Calgary on Saturday, May 5. Find all the info here.
