Vintage Hotels hosts Cookfest

Chef Jacques Pépin

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ON—Vintage Hotels will host top chefs and television personalities each weekend starting April 10 at the first annual Vintage Hotels Culinary Festival taking place this spring.

Internationally respected chef, cookbook author, television personality and cooking teacher, Jacques Pépin headlines a remarkable roster of executive and celebrity chefs

The event runs for four weekends beginning April 10th. It includes renegade cuisine queen Lynn Crawford, Food Network celebrity chef and author Anna Olson, multi-award winning executive chef Simon Smotkowicz, international competitors and members of Culinary Team Canada.

Other stars are the chefs of Vintage Hotels including Andrew Dymond of Escabeche Restaurant, James Olberg of Tiara Restaurant, Randy Dupuis of Cannery Restaurant, Roberto Fracchioni of Millcroft Inn & Spa, and Michael Wilson of Crush Wine Bar of Toronto.

Also appearing will be Trevor Ritchie, Queen’s Landing’s Chef de Cuisine and 2010 World Champion of the Junior Chefs Challenge held in Santiago, Chile this past January.

Hosted at the Prince of Wales, Queen’s Landing and Pillar and Post Hotels, in Niagara-on-the-Lake, all-inclusive weekend packages for the Vintage Hotels Culinary Festival will cost $325 CAD per person.