For more than a decade, Jacob Richler has helped shape the conversation around the Canadian food scene’s coming of age. Known to many as “Jacob Two-Two,” after the endearing children’s book his literary lion father, the late Mordecai Richler, dedicated to him, he has carved out his own place in the country’s cultural landscape, emerging as one of the nation’s most trusted arbiters of taste.

Clockwise from left: the dining room at Mimi Chinese, their Chicken Wontons and Char Siu Ribs; Richler (inset). | Scott Usheroff (Richler); courtesy of Mimi Chinese
Edible Canada
Jacob Richler, founder and editor-in-chief of 'Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants', dishes out his cross-country picks in time for the summer dining season