Edmonton’s chef Serge Belair will represent Canada at the World Association of Chefs Societies’ prestigious global chef challenge semifinals for the Americas, to be held in Las Vegas at the American Culinary Federation Convention in July.
Belair successfully ousted two other Canadian chefs in a competition in Edmonton in January for the right to represent Canada. If Belair wins in Las Vegas this summer, he will compete at the world finals in Stavanger, Norway, in March 2014.
Last summer, Belaie won the Canadian Culinary Federation’s chef-of-the-year challenge at its annual conference in Halifax. In addition, Belair was a member of Culinary Team Canada, which competed in the World Culinary Olympics last fall.
Originally from Gatineau, Quebec, Belair studied at Commission scolaire la Vallée de la Lievre and honed his skills at Hotel Clarion Gatineau’s Restaurant La Pergola from 1999 to 2005. Belair became the Shaw Conference Centre’s chef de partie in 2005, then sous chef in 2007 and senior sous chef in 2011.
