When the going gets tough, the Iron Chef creates meal kits for home cooks complete with video tutorials
Alex Chen teaches people how to prepare ready-to-make dinners from Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar
Salt-baked sea bream is among the dishes people can learn to make via video tutorials by chef Alex Chen. Photo by Leila Kwok
THERE’S LITTLE IN the way of silver linings when it comes to the pandemic’s effects on restaurants and dining, but without all the changes, people may have never gotten the chance to learn to cook in their own homes from Iron Chef Canada Alex Chen.
Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar’s home line, BLVD Provisions, is launching gourmet three-course meal kits available on weekends as of April 17. Each has an accompanying video where Chen shares easy-to-follow steps.
Executive chef of Signature Restaurants, Chen won gold at the 2018 Canadian Culinary Championships, the same year he went on to take the title of Iron Chef Canada.
Executive chef of Signature Restaurants Alex Chen. Photo by Leila Kwok
The menu will rotate weekly. The kits kick off with Boulevard paella, a popular dish with local clams, mussels, prawns, Humboldt squid, lobster, and chorizo sofrito.
Other items on the roster include coq au vin, salt-baked sea bream, slow-roasted Canadian prime ribeye, lobster mac ’n’ cheese, Hamachi crudo, and soupe de poisson. Beef tenderloin Rossini comes with foie gras, fondant potato and shaved Périgord truffles.
“All of these meal kits are some of my favourite things to eat or make and were inspired during my travels,” Chen tells Stir. “I am glad I get to share these chef-curated, restaurant-quality meals with people in the convenience of their own homes. I set you up for success with the convenience of the videos. Now you can understand the why, the how, and the when.”
Running to June 12, the meals include dessert prepared by Kenta Takahashi, Canada’s Best Pastry Chef 2020.
Orders must be placed by the Thursday before pick-up weekend. Kits are priced at $65 to $75 per person and can be purchased via Tock.
Those who are yearning to dine on an outdoor patio also have the option of going to Boulevard’s new heated, covered outdoor space. An expansion into the Sutton Place Hotel drive, the patio is open from 3 to 10 pm Tuesday to Sunday.
For more information, visit Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar.
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