Corbin Tomaszeski is often recognized from Food Network's Restaurant Makeover, Crash My Kitchen and his new show: Dinner Party Wars. As the consummate host, he entertains, as he creates memorable meals designed to connect families, friends and communities – his philosophy that food and life go hand in hand sends a powerful message to audiences everywhere.
He began his career with them in Edmonton where he became Executive Chef of the restaurant in 1997. Not soon after with the help of Tomaszeski, Holt Renfrew upped their food services and revitalized their food and beverage operations from the hub at Toronto's Bloor Street Flagship to training their kitchen teams across Canada. The Holt's Café was launched in 2002, featuring a bright new menu with foods originating from France and has become a mecca for celebrities for lunch and special events while in Toronto. He is both prestigious enough and proud enough to fly to France every so often to create his exclusive menu and to keeping in touch with what his ‘flavor' is really all about.
Growing up on a farm in Alberta, Corbin learned the importance of fresh food and fine ingredients at an early age. While his Polish background has taught him that making foods from scratch is as important as the time you put into eating the foods when they are done. He has worked and apprentice under award winning chefs such as Dion Dayanandan and Simon Smotkowicz who was culinary captain of Team Canada for the internationally acclaimed Cooking Olympics.
Attention to detail is one component that helped create that demand for his highly discriminating clientele and his plates are known to be as beautiful and dramatic to see visually as they are wonderful to eat. Corbin is the ideal personality and charm together with incredible talent for any culinary event whether it's a food & wine festival, tradeshow, or even cooking in your home. His funny style invites you to cook along with him regardless if you're in the audience or standing right next to him. Past clients always invite him back, year after year because of how fun he is to work with and the draw he brings to your successful event.
