Our Culinary Members across Manitoulin Island
Manitoulin Culinary Tourism
Barbara Baker
Manages Manitoulin Culinary Tourism
Manitoulin Culinary Tourism website and events are currently managed by Barbara Baker as the Manitoulin Culinary Advisory Group is currently not active. If you have a culinary event that you would like to see listed on the website please reach out to me and I will see that it gets listed.
The MCAG Executive
Nishin Meawasige
Co-Chair
Owner/operator of Manitoulin Brewing Company. Note Photo from Growler
Barbara Baker
Co-Chair
Owner/operator of Women of Manitoulin Entrepreneur Network and Manitoulin Culinary Tourism
Simon de Sousa Secretary
Owner/Operator of Mast Hospitality
Our Local Chefs
When it comes to all things culinary, having a great chef is the best place to start!
Whether you are looking to host an event with a culinary aspect, looking to have a customized meal made for you or a group of family or friends, planning your wedding or a party. Here are some of the chefs you can reach out to
Chef Louis Simard (Manitoulin Farmstead)
Chef Simard once the Executive Chef at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier in Ottawa, now resides on Manitoulin Island can create a wedding feast for you using locally grown products
Chef Jodie Elliott (Prepped Manitoulin)
Chef Jodie can create a memorable culinary experience. Whether she caters your private event, wedding or festival feast it will meet all your needs.
Chef Angel Martinez
Angel Martinez at Xoctli, is always willing and open to be a private chef, cater for a private dinner for two, small wedding for twenty, or holiday events; we can drop off an order of your favourite Latin or international dish at your door steps.
Chef Kevin Hemstreet (Garden's Gate)
Kevin, a Red Seal Chef with over 30 yrs in the industry. Kevin spent the last 12 years honing his skills and expanding his network. As a Chef Technician at Fanshawe College. We are pleased to have him on Manitoulin Island
Chef Joseph Shawana (DDCX Indigenous Kitchen)
We are please to have had Chef Shawana open a location at the Manitowaning Golf Club. Visit the DDCX Restaurant and enjoy some of his great cuisine.
Chef Doug Trudeau
4 Winds Indigenous Catering
4 WInds Indigenous catering is about reconnecting with food and people. Reintroducing food in a modern fashion that was taken from us during colonization and residential schools. Fresh, Local, sustainable ingredients supplied by Turtle Island with mother nature as our true artist
Chef's Obbrian Osbourne, Rajay Simpson & Dennis Koveos make up their team of chefs
North 46 Restaurant is Located within the Manitoulin Hotel & Conference Centre
Chef Simon DeSousa (Mast Hospitality)
Chef De Sousa can create an amazing Vegan or Vegetarian feast for your wedding using locally grown produce and products. You can also find his culinary delicacies at the NEMI Farmers Market in the summer.
Chef Genevieve Sartor (New Grain Kitchen)
Genevieve Sartor and her team can create a most amazing culinary experience or wedding feast for you. New Grain Kitchen collaborates with farmers and producers across Manitoulin and will create a memorable meal for you and your guests.
Chef Ricardo (R&R Eats 'N' Treats)
Chef Ricardo specializes in AUTHENTIC Jamaican & Canadian Cuisine! Also offer delicious baked goods, dessert. R&R will make a great addition to any culinary event you are hosting
Chef Sheina Hemstreet (Garden's Gate)
Sheina is a classically trained Chef in French cuisine and service. She spent her first 15 years in the workforce exploring all facets of restaurant and foodservice. Including the 2009 season at Red Lodge Resort, located on Manitoulin Island.
Chef Donskov (the Bear Sushi)
From Kyiv, Ukraine to Manitoulin Island. executive chef and co-founder Artem Donskov, has worked as head chef and executive chef at various restaurants in Kyiv, Ukraine. The Bear in Little Current serves Sushi and other delights.
Chef Marco Hobson
Executive Chef at Red Lodge Resort, Chef Marco has cooked around the world. It is worth the trip to Red Lodge to enjoy his cuisine.
Chef Pam Roy
Chef Pam is well known across Manitoulin Island for her monkey bread and Tacos. According to Chef Pam, "everything is better with butter"
Culinary Categories
A culinary experience is more than just eating, it can be about learning where that food came from
Foraging and things from the woods
Always changing. Will be updated as events occur.