The Top 2 Tasting Menus Near The Pine
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Rank 1. The Pine
Contemporary Chinese
In a converted garage on Creemore's main road, Jeremy Austin channels his years cooking across Asia into precisely calibrated tasting menus built around Canadian seafood and produce. A tea-cured egg crowned with caviar, Sichuan boiled fish made with B.C. albacore, and a Shanghai crepe stuffed with snow crab signal a chef translating international technique through local ingredients.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Chinese Cuisine Restaurant
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #11 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 2. Naagen
Indigenous
In Owen Sound, Zach Keeshig cooks from the land around his Nawash First Nation home, sourcing foraged ingredients, hunted game, and specially raised proteins. His tasting menu moves through smoked lake fish, bison tartare, and charcoal-roasted squab with the rigor of modern technique and the philosophy of Indigenous stewardship, each course a deliberate argument about what food can mean.