GALLERY: The Dinner Party, a celebration of women in the kitchen from some of Toronto’s top female chefs

Restaurant kitchens can be macho, male-dominated places. So, on Monday night, 60 guests gathered at The Great Hall to celebrate the unsung talents of the women in Toronto’s kitchens at The Dinner Party, a special event organized by Alexandra Feswick of the soon-to-open Samuel J. Moore. Feswick enlisted some of the city’s top female talent to create a collaborative tasting menu dedicated to the women who inspired them. The evening was a takeoff on Judy Chicago’s famous 1979 installation of the same name, which honoured famous female historical figures with a dinner of dishes and place settings celebrating their accomplishments. “I’ve been working in the industry for nearly a decade and have yet to find many people who don’t walk into a kitchen I’m running and ask me where the chef is,” Feswick tells us. “I’ve decided that this needs to change.”