MONTREAL — P.F. Chang’s will open its first Quebec location in Montreal on April 18.

"It is an honour for me to share my passion for cooking and my Chinese culinary heritage. It is my sincere wish that Quebecers embrace the P.F. Chang's experience, our warmth, our varied and refined menu, our commitment to quality and our desire to offer the best Chinese food." said Philip Chang, co-founder of P.F. Chang's.

GUELPH, Ont. – With the aim to make local food more accessible at Ontario’s restaurants, markets, grocery stores and institutions, the Ontario government recently introduced a new Local Food Act.

The act intends to create a system that supports farmers, increase awareness of the importance of eating local and set quotas for public sector organizations, holding them accountable to the public.

TORONTO — After only seven months on the job, Chef Ryan Gallagher has announced via Twitter that he is leaving his post as executive chef of Reds Wine Tavern.

“Hey people of the twitter world. No longer at Reds. Going in different directions... keep you all posted on what’s next for me,” tweeted Gallagher last week.

MONTREAL — Normand Laprise, grand chef, Relais & Châteaux, and co-owner of Toqué restaurant in Montreal, has been nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award for his book, “Toqué Creators of a New Quebec Gastronomy (Les Éditions du Passage).”

The tome has been nominated in the category known as “cooking from a professional point of view.” Photographer Dominique Malaterre, who shot the photos in Laprise’s book, is also nominated. “This enormous recognition by the James Beard Foundation is a tribute to our gastronomy, my team of professionals and the publisher who participated in producing this little book of 500 pages,” said Laprise.