Downtown Victoria Hotels | Luxury Hotel in Victoria British Columbia

Hotel Grand Pacific Banquet Chef Ian Goard and Apprentice Chef Richard Baker took home both the People’s Choice and the Most Artistic Creation awards at last week’s Colour Your Palate competition in Victoria, BC.

An annual event to raise funds for the local artsREACH programme, Colour Your Palate challenged twelve of Victoria’s finest chefs to use colour as an inspiration for an artistic and delicious canapé. Ian and Richard were given “orange” to work with and their cubist creation, a saffron orange pound cake filled with orange mousse, blood orange gelee and caramel sponge candy, was the popular favourite.

The culinary team at the Hotel Grand Pacific, on Victoria’s Inner Harbour, has a reputation for creating great food with flair. The menus in The Pacific, an all-day dining restaurant, and The Mark, an intimate four-diamond dining room, change seasonally and emphasize local, organic and sustainable to present diners with a fresh and flavourful Island-inspired palate. Determined to be at the forefront of culinary sustainability, the HGP recently launched its Sustainable Wines program which complements both the hotel’s participation in the Ocean Wise sustainable seafood program, and emphasis on seasonal menus that source foods from within a 100-kilometre radius of the property.

The Hotel Grand Pacific was recently selected the Best Hotel in Canada by readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine. For more information about the Hotel visit www.hotelgrandpacific.com.