Tag: Emad Yacoub
OHI Hall of Fame 2023 Award Winners Announced
TORONTO — The Ontario Hostelry Institute (OHI) announced the winners of its Hall of Fame Awards, which recognize long-term hospitality leaders. The awards will...
Black + Blue Makes its Toronto Debut
TORONTO ― It was billed as Toronto’s largest restaurant opening in recent years and with 1,500 industry leaders invited to the opening, the billing...
Glowbal Restaurant Group has become a powerhouse in the fine-dining segment
For Vancouver-based Glowbal Restaurant Group (GRG), the overwhelming success of its flagship restaurant, Glowbal, in 2002 is what opened the door to expansion. Today,...
Five Sails Restaurant Under New Ownership
VANCOUVER — A staple in Vancouver fine dining-circles, Five Sails Restaurant’s future looked bleak near the end of 2019, when the restaurant closed its doors....
Glowbal Group Premiers Telus Garden Flagship Restaurant
VANCOUVER — Glowbal Restaurant Group has opened its 17,000-sq.-ft. flagship restaurant inside downtown Vancouver’s Telus Garden.
The new restaurant premiered earlier this month with a...
2013 Independent Restaurateur of the Year: Emad Yacoub of Glowbal Restaurant...
Few people speak of the Canadian dream, but Emad Yacoub is proof it exists. When the 19-year-old university-trained accountant moved to Canada from Egypt...
Industry Leaders Fêted at Kostuch Media’s 25th Anniversary Pinnacle Awards
TORONTO — In Toronto-based Kostuch Media’s biggest and most lavish awards ceremony yet, the magazine publisher celebrated its 25th annual Pinnacle Awards — honouring...
Vancouver Welcomes High Society
VANCOUVER – On Thursday, Oct. 29, the newest restaurant in Glowbal Group’s portfolio, Society, will open in the Yaletown ’hood of Vancouver. Matching soothing...