GOODS: Hawksworth In The Rosewood Hotel Georgia On The Lookout For Morning Cooks
March 6, 2012
Hawksworth is located in Rosewood Hotel Georgia at 801 West Georgia St. | www.hawksworthrestaurant.com
The GOODS from Hawksworth
Vancouver, BC | Hawksworth Restaurant at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia is looking for passionate cooks to fill breakfast positions immediately. Ideal candidates have two years cooking experience. Please send your resume to ke@hawksworthrestaurant.com. Details on the restaurant after the jump… Read more
GOODS: The “Hawksworth” Team Is Headed To Hong Kong To Cook At Acclaimed SEVVA
February 23, 2012
Hawksworth is located in Rosewood Hotel Georgia at 801 West Georgia St. | www.hawksworthrestaurant.co
The GOODS from Hawksworth
Vancouver, BC | The Hawksworth Restaurant executive team are thrilled to have been invited by Bonnie Gokson, owner of Hong Kong hot spot SEVVA to present a series of showcase menus to discerning diners at the highly acclaimed international restaurant. This exciting opportunity offers a culinary exchange between two exceptional dining establishments, both leaders in the restaurant industry in their respective styles and countries. At SEVVA the cuisine is inspired by the cultural diversity of Hong Kong itself exploring authentic tastes typical of those created in everyday Chinese regional kitchens alongside a myriad of influences from the colonial days. Hawksworth’s contemporary Canadian cuisine embraces the very best of local land and sea while similarly drawing on the city’s melting pot of cultural diversity to include Asian, Indian and European influences always imparting a fresh West Coast flavour. Read more
SEEN IN VANCOUVER #334: $10,000 In Fat Black Winter Truffles Land At “Hawksworth”
January 13, 2012
How do you make a chef happy in January? Bring him black winter truffles of course. Chef David Hawksworth of Hawksworth in the Rosewood Hotel Georgia took delivery of a $10,000 pile of them this morning from Perigord, France, and will be using them in the restaurant starting this evening. Anyone else fancy potato gnocchi with oxtail dusted with black winter truffle for supper?
EVERYTHING SEEN IN VANCOUVER
GOODS: “Hawksworth” In the Hotel Georgia Primed For Its First Ever New Year’s Eve
December 13, 2011
Hawksworth is located in Rosewood Hotel Georgia at 801 West Georgia St. | www.hawksworthrestaurant.com
The GOODS from Hawksworth
Vancouver, BC | Ring in the New Year in style at the city’s most historic luxury hotel in the very heart of downtown Vancouver. Enjoy the elegant seasonal surrounds of the Rosewood Hotel Georgia before embarking on a glamorous evening celebration at its acclaimed signature restaurant, Hawksworth. Certain to be one of the hottest tickets in town, Hawksworth will present a magnificent and decadent six-course dinner, prepared by Chef Hawksworth and his talented team. Each course is served with exceptional fine wines, expertly paired by Wine Director / Sommelier Terry Threlfall. A few menu highlights include Butter Poached Lobster, wild mushrooms, potato gnocchi and lobster emulsion paired with a 2009 Vincent Girardin Narvaux Vineyard “Vieilles Vigne” from Meursault, Burgundy and Braised Beef Shortrib, cauliflower, black truffle and natural jus, with a 2008 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellar “Artemis” Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley. Learn more about the evening and the award-winning restaurant after the jump… Read more
GOODS: After “Best New” Nod At EnRoute, Hawksworth Gets Wintry With New Dishes
November 30, 2011
Hawksworth is located in Rosewood Hotel Georgia at 801 West Georgia St. | www.hawksworthrestaurant.com
The GOODS from Hawksworth
Vancouver, BC | Recently recognized by enRoute Magazine as one of Canada’s top three best new restaurants, Hawksworth continues impress both guests and critics with the very best in contemporary Canadian cuisine. Highlights from the current menu include: Okanagan Bartlett pears, cooked sous vide for an hour in spiced syrup, paired with speck from Oyama Sausage Co., creamy burrata from Italy and a house-made roasted shallot dressing; a charred octopus salad features slow-cooked octopus finished on the grill with smoked confit Langley fingerling potatoes, grilled frisee and confit fennel infused with lemon; grilled sturgeon returns, lightly grilled following a 24hr marinade and served with a sunchoke fricassee, butternut squash flan, manila clams freshly shucked from the shell, finished with a clam nectar broth. Read more
GOODS: David Hawksworth’s “Bel Cafe” In The Hotel Georgia Is Looking For Cooks
October 27, 2011
Hawksworth is located in Rosewood Hotel Georgia at 801 West Georgia St. | www.hawksworthrestaurant.co
The GOODS from Hawksworth
Vancouver, BC | David Hawksworth’s new Bel Cafe is searching for hard working, passionate cooks both pastry and savoury. The cafe is located in the recently renovated Rosewood Hotel Georgia. Full time availability is required. Please apply via email at adeah@hawksworthrestaurant.com. Read more
Ingredient Of The Week: Making The Very Best Of The Very Last Of The Summer Corn
October 11, 2011
by Claire Lassam | My grandfather is not a picky eater. As product of the Great Depression, he will eat just about anything without fuss. But he is fussy about corn. He grows it in his backyard and when dinner is entirely cooked and the pot of water is at a roaring boil, he goes out into the and picks it himself. Then, and only then, does he cook it. It doesn’t cook for very long, and when it’s done he pulls it out and slathers it with butter (the only thing I’ve ever seen him slather butter on, likely again a Depression habit). And then we eat it. That’s just how it’s done.
That corn was so good, so fresh, so sweet, and so flavourful. It is, to this day, the best corn I’ve ever had. It might even be my favourite vegetable. And I think I’m not alone in that because BC produces 18 million kilos of corn every year. Living in Vancouver, when we think of corn we naturally think of Chilliwack, but it does grow all over southern BC.
When I started working in restaurants I realized that there were other ways of cooking corn. It was a small revelation to me, to have it any other way besides boiled with butter. I’ve had it grilled in tacos, baked in popovers, creamed and sauteed. I’ve fallen in love with succotash, and I’ve become enamoured with corn chowder. And man, do I ever have a crush on cornbread! If I’m being honest here I’m not sure I’ve ever really had any preparation of corn that I haven’t liked.
So where can you get the best corn in the city? La Taqueria has a creamed corn taco, the sweetness of which does a little dance with poblano peppers and Mexican cheese. I haven’t tried the corn ice cream at West yet, but pastry chef Rhonda Viani has yet to do wrong by me. And, of course, Hawksworth has it on their tasting menu with halibut cheeks. They have kindly given us the recipe, which is – surprisingly – so easy (the corn, if not the halibut if you are familiar with sous vide) that you can make it at home and enjoy a final taste of summer as the leaves fall around you.
The Farmers Market is definitely where you’ll snag the sweetest and juiciest pieces, but most green grocers in the city are selling it still. Just look for plump pieces with the kernels still full all the way to the tip. Work the recipe after the jump… Read more
VANCOUVER SPECIALS: Robyn Gray Of The Hotel Georgia Makes Us “The Jazz Singer”
August 5, 2011
by David Greig | Welcome to the second sipper in the Scout series we call Vancouver Specials, wherein we take a close look at original cocktails of note that have been homegrown by our better bartenders.
“The Jazz Singer” | by Robyn Gray | 1927 Bar | Rosewood Hotel Georgia
10ml Plymouth Gin
15ml Lemon Juice
10ml Simple Syrup
5ml Maraschino Liqueur
5 Black Cherries
100ml Prosecco
Muddle 4 cherries and add the rest of ingredients except Prosecco
Shake hard and strain into a champagne flute
Top with Prosecco
Garnish with a cherry on the rim
The Deal
Inspiration? This drink takes its name from the very first movie to have an audio track, The Jazz Singer, released in the same year as the original opening of the Hotel Georgia, 1927. Where and when would you drink this? At the 1927 bar, as would be appropriate. Maybe at dusk, to the strains of a finely played saxophone. And with what? A dozen locally grown Ocean Wise oysters. Elegance and simplicity combined.
DINER: On Being Crippled And Wishing I Could Have Dinner Tonight At “Hawksworth”
June 10, 2011
The good folks at the brand new Hawksworth in the Hotel Georgia have produced a slick restaurant porn promo video (in HD, natch) that makes me wish for mobility (if I hadn’t broken my leg I’d have had dinner there last night). I’ve been hearing nothing but outstanding things in texts and emails from friends and colleagues, many of whom have gone so far as to state flat out that Hawksworth is the best restaurant in Vancouver, right out of the gate. It’s not hard imagining that anything less would prove a bitter disappointment for the people behind it. Can’t wait to go and wishing they delivered…
NB. If you have a thing against repetitive, synthetic music scores that make you want to punch things, press mute.
GOODS: Appointment Of Kristian Eligh As Chef De Cuisine At “Hawksworth” Confirmed
May 10, 2011
"Hawksworth" will open in the newly renovated Rosewood Hotel Georgia at 801 West Georgia in early May of 2011
The GOODS from Hawksworth
Vancouver, BC | Hawksworth Restaurant is pleased to confirm the appointment of Kristian Eligh as Chef de Cuisine. With over a decade of culinary experience to his name, Eligh has an impressive resume that includes recent tenures as opening Chef de Cuisine at Market by Jean-Georges at the Shangri-La Hotel and Chef de Cuisine at Diva at the Metropolitan Hotel. In further pursuit of his passion, he has also completed stages in a highly regarded collection of leading North American restaurants: Blackbird Restaurant and L2O in Chicago; Spice Market, Perry St and Jean Georges in New York; and McCrady’s in Charleston, South Carolina, all of which continue to influence his cooking style today. Read more
