Executive Chef

Steffan Howard

Executive Chef for: Palais Royale Ballroom, Casa Loma, The Grand Luxe Event Boutique, Food Studio Catering and Banquet Operations for The Pegasus Hospitality Group.

Executive Chef Steffan Howard has enjoyed cooking in Paris, Montreal and Toronto. In Paris, Steffan worked the opening for Disneyland Paris at the California Grill, being part of an international team of cooks who were rewarded a 14/20 by Gault Millau (only 16 other Hotel restaurants in Europe rated higher at the time), also doing stages at two different Michelin-rated restaurants and one local Patisserie.

Upon his return to Canada, Steffan joined the Flagship Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto, working his way onto the cooking line at Canada’s first CAA 5 diamond restaurant team at Truffles. Steffan also enjoyed being Sous chef at both Jov Bistro and the Art Gallery of Ontario. He was also Head Chef at the Woodlawn Terrace Inn in Cobourg, Ontario securing a spot on the Ontario’s Finest Inns Select Registry for food offerings for the 1st time in the Woodlawn Inn’s 30 year history.

Steffan is proud to be integrated with Ontario’s organic Food movement, spending 3 years working on an Organic farm as a product developer and initiating an organic catering company. In 2004, he was selected as not only the chairman of Toronto’s 15th annual Feast of Fields, hosting a forum on aquaculture with David Suzuki as the keynote speaker, but also by the World Wildlife Foundation to help promote ecological agriculture. Cuisine Canada asked Steffan to speak at their bi-annual food conference at Guelph University, as well.

Since learning and understanding the virtue and benefits of using local, indigenous and organic product, this ideology dominates when Steffan is customizing menu production for the Pegasus Hospitality Group. Steffan also enjoys cooking in the ethnic diversity that Toronto has to offer and has been invited to be a committee member for ‘Savour Toronto’ an organization developed to improve and create awareness of culinary tourism in Toronto.

Chef Steffan Howard and his international team continue to build beautiful food offerings for the Pegasus Hospitality Group, taking advantage of Toronto’s incredibly inspiring and diverse communities.