Select Nova Scotia (NS Dept. of Agriculture) -  Local Food Hero - 2011

EKCC Best of Kings Awards 2011 - Tempest Restaurant - BEST FINE DINING

Cusine Canada Cookbook awards - Best Cookbook Honorable mention - September 2010

Grate Canadian Grilled Cheese Championships - WINNER - July 2010

Taste of the Valley People's Choice Award - Best Food 2010

Savour Food and Wine Festival - Best Hot Food - 2010

Taste of Nova Scotia - Member of the Year - 2010

Lieutenant Governor's Spirit Nova Scotia Local Food Award: TEMPEST RESTAURANT 2009

Best Health Magazine - Healthiest Restaurants in Canada - Tempest - Summer 2009

Taste of the Valley People's Choice Award - Best Food - 2009

Savour Food and Wine Festival - Runner up - Best Hot Food - 2009

TIANS Crystal Tourism Award - Best Sustainable Business - 2008

Taste of the Valley People's Choice Award - Best Food 2008

Savour Food and Wine Festival - Best Hot Food - 2007

Progress Magazine - Best Fine Dining Restaurant in Nova Scotia - Winter 2007

Nassau Food and Wine Society  - Best Chef in the Bahamas - 2000

Globe and Mail -April 2010 "Chester-born Michael Howell is a favourite homegrown chef. His restaurant, Tempest in Wolfville, is one of the best in the province" Lucy Waverman Savour 2010 - "Best In Show" - Chronicle Herald's People choice award - Emperors Duck "The Best Restaurant in the Maritimes!" Lifestyle Maritimes Magazine - September 2007 "One of Canada's Healthiest Restaurants" Best Health Magazine - September 2009

To read Janet Kronick's review of Atlantic Seafood, click on the link.

http://cuisinecanadascene.com/2011/01/27/atlantic-seafood/

The first annual Canadian Celebrity Chef Event in the Nation's Capital was held at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa January 24th, 2011. Chef Michael was invited to represent his cuisine and Atlantic Canada at the event. Here is what some of the press had to say: http://www.foodieprints.com/item/3343

Ottawa Food Blogger The Twisted Chef had this to say

"January 27, 2011 10:31 AM

Food Blogger Ruth Daniels has written a nice review of Atlantic Seafood . Read it at http://www.cookbooks4everykitchen.com/2010/04/atlantic-seafood.html

"Chester-native Michael Howell is a favourite homegrown chef. His restaurant, Tempest in Wolfville, is one of the best in the province" LUCY WAVERMAN - The Globe and Mail April 2010

Readers familiar with Atlantic Canada's burgeoning culinary scene won't be surprised to hear that Wolfville, situated in the fertile Annapolis Valley some 90 kilometres northwest of the capital, also boasts a show-stopping restaurant: chef Michael Howell's highly esteemed Tempest (www.tempest.ca), where the choice of chowders alone is enough to make a seafood aficionado swoon.

The Globe and Mail Saturday June 19th, 2010.  To read the entire article please go to

 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/its-morally-wrong-to-leave-nova-scotia-without-doing-the-communal-lobster-supper-at-least-once/article1609229/ 

Atlantic Seafood, by Michael Howell (Nimbus Publishing, $24.95). The Chester, N.S., native and owner of Tempest Restaurant in Wolfville combines excellent and easy-to-follow fish and seafood recipes and lovely colour photographs with prep tips - remove top and bottom from an empty tuna can and you have a fine three-inch mould, for instance - as well as invaluable advice about buying, and not buying, fish and seafood. Chef Howell, who serves only sustainable species at his restaurant, explains why he won't serve farmed salmon, for instance, that monkfish stocks are depleted in many places and that bluefin tuna is in danger of extinction. Susan Schwartz

Wine writer Sean Wood profiled Michael in a September 2009 edition of Tidings Magazine, labelling him one of Canada's Maverick Chefs

 http://www.tidingsmag.com/mavericks/michael-howell-fab-chef-of-nova-scotia.html

Montreal based Food writer and producer of the television show AT THE TABLE WITH... Mary Luz Mejia visited NS for the last two years during the Savour Food and Wine Festival . She visited Tempest and wrote this review

 http://cookingresources.suite101.com/article.cfm/tempest_world_cuisine

The annual Savour Food and Wine Spectacular (at the Harborfront Marriot last month) is the largest food show of its kind in Eastern Canada. The Chronicle Herald sponsors the Annual Best in Show Awards, and for the second time in four years, TEMPEST took home BEST HOT FOOD in the show. Our dish was a perennial Tempest favorite, Emperors Duck - Slow Braised duck in Chinese Barbeque Sauce atop at Scallion Pancake with Cilantro Oil, topped with crispy shallots.

Toronto Writer and Food Critic Lucy Waverman stopped by the booth and said that the cooking was on par or better than Toronto standards (should she be surprised???) and wrote about the show and Chef Michael recently in the Globe and Mail

http://m.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/lucy-waverman/recipes-halifaxs-best-seasonal-fare/article1529178/?service=mobile

Dinner At The Tempest Chef Michael Howell's Tempest Restaurant is certainly initially welcoming to those who enter its foyer but no one is prepared for the magnitude and imagination that comes in the form of his cooking or the service that his staff bring to the clientele. Christine White, Greg and I entered the abode carrying our bottle of Taurus Reserve. We were seated and the lovely sommelier called Sarah poured a glass of L'Acadie Reserve for us. This went very well with the initial appetizer of Parsnips and Apple as well as the Vegetable, Sausage and Fish Soup with an ever so good "arribbiata" taste to it! This was followed by a Riesling that matched a lovely Garden Salad as well as the sublime Lobster Risotto. The lovely acidity of both wines cut through the challenges of all the dishes following up each with lovely fruit brought to the forefront as the acid equalized the playing field. Though all the dishes were exemplary examples of what Chef Michael could do, the prize came in the form of Lamb with Purple/Blue Mashed Potatoes. The wine matched was the Benjamin Bridge Taurus Reserve Marechal Foch. Lamb is always a match for the a wine that exhibits black fruit and wood flavours as well as having the benefit of pepper spice with a touch of anise. This seemed to be the case with the Taurus---a reserve wine that puts the Marechal grape on a different playing field. A super match and a super day. One thing I would like to say is thanks to Dean Tudor of the Wine Writers Circle Of Canada whose daughter happens to be Chef Michael's wife. On hearing that I was coming to Wolfville, he suggested that I come and visit the restaurant. Of course, the Tempest and Michael Howell both having such a great reputation as well as being part of "Taste of Nova Scotia" were included in the itinerary of my visit!

Not even a tragic fire can slow down Michael Howell.The talented chef is known both at home and by someof the most discerning foodies in the world for hiseclectic pairings of Nova Scotian wine and cuisine

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