Chef Dale MacKay looking at a brighter future..

Touring the world as Gordon Ramsay’s right-hand at his Michelin-starred restaurants, the first Top Chef Canada winner and AAA Five Diamond Award winning Chef Dale MacKay is gearing up for a huge 2023 as he competes in the upcoming new season of Bravo’s Top Chef: World All-Stars with new episodes airing Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo. Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, and Gail Simmons will be back hosting Season 20 of the Emmy, James Beard and Critics’ Choice Award-winning series which will feature 16 winners and finalists from 11 different Top Chef versions around the world competing for the ultimate World All-Stars title. This time the chefs will return to the kitchen to battle it out throughout London before moving on to the grand finale in Paris. This epic showdown marks the first time the flagship edition of Top Chef has gone abroad for an entire season.

Originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, MacKay’s culinary career began as a fry cook in Vancouver, B.C. He then moved to London, England, where he began working at Gordon Ramsay’s Claridge’s, followed by stints in other Michelin-starred Ramsay restaurants in London, Tokyo, and New York City. He eventually returned to Vancouver to become the executive chef at Daniel Boulud’s Lumière restaurant, where the restaurant was awarded the AAA Five Diamond Award under his direction.

After winning Top Chef Canada and starting his own Vancouver restaurant, MacKay returned to his hometown, where he founded the Grassroots Restaurant Group with Christopher Cho and Nathan Guggenheimer. With this group, he’s opened restaurants in Western Canada, including: Avenue, Ayden Kitchen & Bar, Dojo, Little Grouse on the Prairie and Sticks and Stones.

In addition to his Top Chef Canada win in 2011, Dale MacKay has many more accolades to his name, including being named a Western Living “Foodie of the Year” in 2014, while Ayden made Air Canada’s EnRoute Magazine’s Top 10 Best New Restaurants list, won EnRoute’s People’s Choice Award for Canada’s Best New Restaurant and was on Vacay.ca’s Top 50 Restaurants in Canada list in 2014-2016.