Chef Pears went head-to-head with nine of Toronto’s finest culinary masters at the prestigious competition, and will now go on to compete at the Canadian Culinary Championships, the Great Kitchen Party Finale, in Ottawa in January.

Our gold medal was awarded by a unanimous decision and an almost unheard-of margin of 10 percentage points to last year’s bronze medallist, Keith Pears of the Delta Hotel. He called his dish “West Meets East,” a reference to his roots on Canada’s west coast.

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