IWFS Toronto AGM Toronto Hunt Club

The area around The Toronto Hunt Club was known as The Birch Cliff area and began to be developed in 1895, when the Toronto Hunt Club relocated here.

Much Thanks goes to Marcel Bregstein and his staff for an amazing evening, as the pictues will tell.....

June 09, 2008 6:30 P.M.

Fox Hunts were held at this club up until the 1930's, when golf became the memberships preferred activity, a fine course too. In the late 1890's and early 1900's many Toronto residents built summer homes on the property adjacent to the Toronto Hunt Club. These families were attracted to the area by the magnificent Scarborough Bluffs.

A history of the Scarborough area can be found by

Clicking here.

IW&F Foundation of Canada Award winners will be announced.

Special thanks to member Marcel Bregstein for making this all possible.

The Annual General Meeting Dinner

Address:
1355 Kingston Rd Scarborough, Ontario, Canada M1N 1R1

Vouvray Brut, Canapés

Tete du Cuvee, Ackermann (Loire)lobster & blue crab salad on endive

Gruner Veltliner, Smaradg 2006Sea Scallop & Jumbo Prawn Duo

Freie Weingartner (Austria)mango tarragon salsa

Cotes du Rhone 2003, Porcini & Duck Risotto

E. Guigal (Rhone)sliced rare duck

Newton Merlot 1995, Roasted Veal Chop

(California)accompaniments du Chef

Bin 27 Port Dessert Tasting

Fonseca (Portugal)mini crème caramel, mini pear tart & berry

Marcel Bregstein

The Toronto Hunt Club

1355 Kingston Road

Toronto Ontario

M1N 1R1

Work: 416-691-2174

Fax: 416-691-7113

marcel@torontohunt.com

This year’s Annual General Meeting of Members and dinner was extra special – a great venue, breathtaking food and first-class wines from the IW&FS cellar. The Toronto Hunt’s lawn on the Scarborough Bluffs offers a spectacular view

over Lake Ontario in spite of inclement weather and Chef Darin Fedak prepared an outstanding meal. The dazzling talents of the Toronto Hunt’s staff were clearly being put to the test and they didn’t miss a beat. I want to take special note of the serving Staff, both courteous, unobtrusive and very professional, there has been some serious training going on at the THC. As a guest you lacked nothing. Some of these fine young people in their futures will be running his Country as our top Professionals in their chosen fields.

During the AGM Toronto Society regalia was issued to new members who had not previously received it.

Awards were presented to this year's George Brown Chef School’s top graduate

from the Culinary Management Course at the College.’ Ms. Rachel Lye. Drew Innes is this year's top graduate in the Sommelier Qualifying Course at the The Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers (CAPS). The awards were given by Bill Whiteacre, as President of The International Wine and Food Foundation of Canada, who presented each of them with a framed Scholarship Certificate and The Foundation's medal. Doug Colbourne, as Treasurers of The International Wine and Food Foundation of Canada, presented each of them with the Foundation's Scholarship Cheque.

The wines and dinner were superb in a setting of outstanding natural beauty, a Toronto gem. The Toronto Hunt Club’s Staff put on a show to rival the excellence found at the Cirque du Soleil, bottle decapitation with sabre is unique. Thus a special thanks to member Marcel Bregstein of the THC for his great dexterity with a sabre, he does it both with style and aplomb.

Clearly from the feast’s perspective the ‘piece de resistance’ was Chef Darin Fedek’s Veal, succulent, substantial, served pink to perfection and hot. The Napa Valley Newton was a match made with great knowledge and understanding of the wine its age and maturity, clearly a superb combination. As I write this, thinking about the meal I am salivation to do it all again.

Thank you David Jarvis and Chef Darin Fedek!