CHARCUT Roast House To Open in Calgary

Hot on the trail back to Calgary, Alberta... CHARCUT restaurateurs are packing global experience, acclaim and a promising new partnership. omegrown Calgarian Chefs Connie DeSousa and John Jackson, Service Director Jean Francois Beeroo and Carrie Jackson announce plans to open CHARCUT Roast House in December 2009. They were all most recently working and training in San Franciso.

With local appeal and a value-driven, sustainable approach, the new restaurant will be located in the much anticipated Le Germain Calgary project, where the city's downtown financial and entertainment districts converge. The dynamic, young culinary and service oriented ownership team has combined experience opening and operating destination restaurants from New York and San Francisco to Dubai and Bora Bora. Most recently relocated from San Francisco, North America's restaurant capital, members of the team have trained and worked at:

+ Alice Waters' Chez Panisse in Berkeley, listed by Restaurant Magazine as one of the top fifty restaurants in the world from 2006 to 2008;
+ Michelin Star AME Restaurant, named as Food & Wine Magazine's Best New Restaurant San Francisco;
+ Vitrine Restaurant, at the Mobil 5-Star St. Regis Hotel San Francisco;
+ Boulevard Restaurant, hailed as one of the best restaurants in San Francisco; and
+ Jean Georges Vongerichten's Jean Georges in New York City and Lagoon in Bora Bora.

"Calgary is blossoming as a global dining destination rich in culinary talent with remarkable local farms and produce," said John. "To be back in Calgary and bringing CHARCUT Roast House to life here is our dream."

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