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The CANADIAN WEB AWARDS has become a trusted source for independent
website reviews worlwide since 1998. Reviewing websites to
determine if the site is informative, unique and beneficial
to Canadian consumers who visit, Taboo Resort, Golf &
Spa's website was awarded the highest CWA award.
 Taboo
Resort Golf and Spa - 2007 VQA Restaurant Award of Excellence.
This award, given by the Wine Council of Ontario, rewards
licensees who are embracing Ontario VQA wines and inspiring
their patrons with substantial VQA wine lists, tasting menus,
VQA wines by the glass, winemaker's dinners and staff training.
Resort Awards
• 2007 Silver - Best Ontario Resort / Hotel - Toronto Sun Readers' Choice Awards
• Voted 2006 M&IT Readers Choice Award for Best Meeting
Facility and Service Excellence
in Central Canada
• "Best Out-of-Towner Resort 2005" - Frommer's
Magazine
• "Executive Chef" - Alain Irvine : 2005 Canadian
Champion of the Copper Skillet Competition
• "Best Out-of-Towner Resort 2003" - Frommer's
Magazine
• Elements Culinary Theater was given Three Stars from
Where to Eat in Canada by Anne Hardy.
At the end of last season, Jay Scaife took over the Culinary
Theatre at Taboo from Michael Pataran. The Culinary Theatre
occupies the heart of the dining-room, which has a dramatic
view of the lake through a screen of trees. Scaife, who used
to work with Pataran, now cooks alone for the twenty guests
who have booked seats at the bar and maintains a running conversation
with anyone more interested in cooking than their girlfriend
or mother-in-law. There's no menu. Diners can choose five or
seven courses, each with an optional wine service. Pateran used
to cook, broadly speaking, in a Asian style; Scaife used to
cook in a modern French style with a Mediterranean accent. Now
Scaife does both - preparing exquisite morsels of bison, caribou,
sablefish, king salmon, chiogga beets and beautiful chawan mushi
or custard soup. He makes full use of fresh local produce-many
of the vegetables for instance come from Mrs. McBridge of Gravenhurst
Farmers Market. Scaife is an elegant, original and entirely
convincing chef. he doesn't cook the sweets, which ar much less
interesting, but he does choose the wines that come with each
course and he chooses extremely well. he's equally at home with
sake and has four from Japan and one from California to choose
fro, priced at up to 140.00 a bottle. (If you want something
cheaper, ask for Tsingtao beer from China, Asahi from Japan
or Mcauslan apricot, wheat from Quebec.) Taboo is an adventure
you shouldn't miss, whatever the cost.
• Taboo Resort named on the Weddingbells magazine "Honeymoon
Hotlist 2003"
Conference Awards
• "Best Meeting Facility & Service Excellence
in Central Ontario 2003"
- Meetings & Incentive Travel Magazine
• "Planner's Best Bets: Best Restaurant" - Meetings
East magazine
Golf Awards
Best Golf Course in Cottage Country - Toronto Sun Readers' Choice Awards 2007
2nd in Top 10 Beyond the GTA Courses - Toronto Star 2007
11th in Canada Golf Course in Canada - Score Golf Awards
2006- 4th
Public Golf Course Award in Canada - Score Golf Awards 2006
- 3rd
Golf Resort Award in Canada - Score Golf Awards 2006
- "Best
Golf Course in Ontario 2005" - Taboo is the Number
ONE rated golf course in Ontario as published in the 2005
Toronto Star Golf Guide.
- "Best
Course in Cottage Country" - Toronto Sun Golf Guide
2004 Golfer's Choice Awards
- "The
Bogey Man's BEST for 2004" Top Course in Ontario for
2004 - Toronto Star Golf 2004
- "Best
New Course in Ontario" - Ontario Golf News
- "Best
Golf Course in Ontario 2003" - chosen by The Bogeyman
- Toronto Star Golf Guide
- "Best
New Canadian Course 2004 - Third Place" - Golf Digest
magazine
- "Best
Course in Canada GOLD - 2003" - Score Golf magazine
- "Best Practice
Facility in Canada GOLD - 2003" - Score Golf
magazine
- "Best Resort
Course in Canada GOLD - 2003" - Score Golf
magazine
- "Best
Public Course in Canada GOLD - 2003" - Score Golf
magazine
- "Best
Condition Course GOLD - 2003" - Score Golf magazine
- "Best Customer
Service in Canada SILVER - 2003" - Score
Golf magazine
- "Best Scenery
in Canada SILVER - 2003" - Score Golf magazine
Acknowledgements
• Elements Culinary Theater was given Three Stars from
Where to Eat in Canada by Anne Hardy.
At the end of last season, Jay Scaife took over the Culinary
Theatre at Taboo from Michael Pataran. The Culinary Theatre
occupies the heart of the dining-room, which has a dramatic
view of the lake through a screen of trees. Scaife, who
used to work with Pataran, now cooks alone for the twenty
guests who have booked seats at the bar and maintains a
running conversation with anyone more interested in cooking
than their girlfriend or mother-in-law. There's no menu.
Diners can choose five or seven courses, each with an optional
wine service. Pateran used to cook, broadly speaking, in
a Asian style; Scaife used to cook in a modern French style
with a Mediterranean accent. Now Scaife does both - preparing
exquisite morsels of bison, caribou, sablefish, king salmon,
chiogga beets and beautiful chawan mushi or custard soup.
He makes full use of fresh local produce-many of the vegetables
for instance come from Mrs. McBridge of Gravenhurst Farmers
Market. Scaife is an elegant, original and entirely convincing
chef. he doesn't cook the sweets, which ar much less interesting,
but he does choose the wines that come with each course
and he chooses extremely well. he's equally at home with
sake and has four from Japan and one from California to
choose fro, priced at up to 140.00 a bottle. (If you want
something cheaper, ask for Tsingtao beer from China, Asahi
from Japan or Mcauslan apricot, wheat from Quebec.) Taboo
is an adventure you shouldn't miss, whatever the cost.
• Taboo Resort named on the Weddingbells magazine "Honeymoon
Hotlist 2003"
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