The busy kitchen on a Sunday afternoon at Farmhouse Tavern, also known as F*CK MONDAYS, when the restaurant makes a conscious effort to finish with zero food waste at the end of the night.
Farmhouse Tavern executive chef, Eoin Ramsbottom, top left, and owner, Darcy McDonell, top right, sit to discuss Sunday’s menu.
One of the day’s dishes included bone marrow with romesco sauce (top). To complement the restaurant’s ultra-local menu, McDonell focuses on serving local wines, beers and spirits whenever he can.
Adam Hynam-Smith, chef and co-owner at Dispatch in St. Catharines focuses on low and no-waste techniques at his Australian-inspired restaurant, including pumpkin muhammara (top right) with sunflower seed dukkah that contains dehydrated lemon powder from leftover lemons on their third use, dehydrated corn powder, sesame, hazelnuts, cumin and coriander.
Hynam-Smith also makes his own garum (bottom left), a form of fermented fish sauce lovingly nicknamed “Gary the Garum” from squid and salmon roe. It should be ready in May 2020.