Jamie Kennedy back in expansion mode with new Niagara Falls restaurant
A few months ago, Jamie Kennedy told us that for him, 2010 was a year for consolidation and rebuilding. Now, the busy chef—who already runs Gilead Café and Bistro and Jamie Kennedy at the Gardiner Café, in addition to a catering business—is firmly in expansion mode with the recent announcement that he’s opening a new restaurant in Niagara Falls.
Jamie Kennedy on the Falls will be located on the 14th floor of the Sheraton on the Falls Hotel, and will sport floor-to-ceiling windows and a direct view of the falls. A partnership with Canadian Niagara Hotels, the fine-dining restaurant is aimed squarely at wooing patrons from the GTA who are already familiar with Kennedy and his Toronto eateries. “[Canadian Niagara] approached us,” Jamie Kennedy Kitchens spokesperson Jo Dickins told The Dish of the joint venture. “They wanted to open the best restaurant, so they called the best chef.”
Although Niagara Falls itself might seem an unusual home for a high-end restaurant, Kennedy hopes to draw from the Niagara region’s farms to support his local-first and seasonal-driven menu. Fittingly, Ross Midgley, a chef with more than 13 years of experience working in the area, has been tapped to run the kitchen. Wine writer Tony Aspler will curate the wine cellar, which lean heavily, although not exclusively, on Ontario bottles. Jamie Kennedy on the Falls is slated to open on November 25.
(Images: Kennedy, Davida Aronovitch; Falls, Chris Brown)
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A few months ago, Jamie Kennedy told us that for him, 2010 was a year for consolidation and rebuilding. Now, the busy chef—who already runs Gilead Café and Bistro and Jamie Kennedy at the Gardiner Café, in addition to a catering business—is firmly in expansion mode with the recent announcement that he’s opening a new restaurant in Niagara Falls.
Jamie Kennedy on the Falls will be located on the 14th floor of the Sheraton on the Falls Hotel, and will sport floor-to-ceiling windows and a direct view of the falls. A partnership with Canadian Niagara Hotels, the fine-dining restaurant is aimed squarely at wooing patrons from the GTA who are already familiar with Kennedy and his Toronto eateries. “[Canadian Niagara] approached us,” Jamie Kennedy Kitchens spokesperson Jo Dickins told The Dish of the joint venture. “They wanted to open the best restaurant, so they called the best chef.”
Although Niagara Falls itself might seem an unusual home for a high-end restaurant, Kennedy hopes to draw from the Niagara region’s farms to support his local-first and seasonal-driven menu. Fittingly, Ross Midgley, a chef with more than 13 years of experience working in the area, has been tapped to run the kitchen. Wine writer Tony Aspler will curate the wine cellar, which lean heavily, although not exclusively, on Ontario bottles. Jamie Kennedy on the Falls is slated to open on November 25.
(Images: Kennedy, Davida Aronovitch; Falls, Chris Brown) ){kind=link}
I want to go to there.
Finally a reason to go to Niagara Falls!
Yay. Something good at the bottom of Clifton Hill for a change!!
I completely concur with Guy. Inspite of Niagara’s tourism “overhaul”, the hotels are barely acceptable at best and restaurant choices still leave much to be desired. While AG is Niagara’s hidden gem, the addition of Massimo Capra and now Jamie Kennedy will finally begin to elevate dining choices to what they should have been long ago. Looking forward to November.
This will be an excellent venue for a fine dining restaurant. The view is absolutely spectacular and the prospect of such high quality dining is long over due. Can’t wait!
He runs Gilead Café and Bistro? Runs it? Really? His name appears to be over it and that seems to mean charging $13 for a single Eggs Benedict with a side of nothing. And it takes the kitchen staff about half an hour to cook you a plate of fries. Instead of expanding, he should get back to the Gilead Café and fix it.
For me lunch at Gilead Cafe was disappointing. It is what we would call in Europe a great neighborhood cafe, but it is largely overrated.
1) it is pricey
2) the service at the counter was really obnoxious and not friendly (it is self service)
3) we ordered 5 dishes to try it out.
BLACKENED COD was a complete disappointment (WANTED TO SEND IT BACK TO THE KITCHEN!).
hamburger was good.
The rest was nothing special to remember.
Sorry, Torontonians, I disagree with you that this is the place to take your gourmet friends to.
If you live in the neighborhood – yes, probably.
But this is not good enough to show to any well travelled person.