“La bonne cuisine depends on taste and skills long before it comes to depend on money, and it is a great mistake to think otherwise”
Jean-Christophe Poirier

“St. Lawrence is so plainly Jean-Christophe Poirier’s passion project. You see and taste the love”
Mia Stainsby, Vancouver Sun

Jean Christophe Poirier grew up in St–Jerome, Quebec, and attended culinary school in Montreal.

After a year of working at a classic French restaurant he landed at Toqué (cooking shoulder to shoulder with Angus An).

His next stop was Vancouver and Lumière’s vaunted million-dollar kitchen, where he assembled 10-course tasting menus and a dozen more à la carte items for the bar. “Toqué was never slammed,” he recalls. “Lumière was slammed.”

A culinary powerhouse whose creativity and technical skill have made his restaurants a delight.

Trained in classical French and Québécois haute cuisine that is rooted in seasonality and terroir, Chef Jean-Christophe Poirier has had an impressive breadth of gastronomic accomplishments.

He is a star and major influencer in the Vancouver food scene with a series of award-winning restaurants including St. Lawrence, where he showcases his Québécois roots and classic French cooking.

His serious talent and impeccable credentials were most recently recognized when St. Lawrence won a pair of gold medals.