Mario Batali

 Canada Some, such as television Iron Chefs Bobby Flay and Mario Batali, are known from their shows on the Food Network, while others, such as Thomas Keller and Joel Robuchon, are culinary legends that have become food luminaries in their own right by putting ...

Chef Mario Batali, the ruddy face of American Italian celebrity cuisine, has long operated by the motto that "wretched excess is just barely enough." Batali would likely find Edmonton's newest gourmet Italian restaurant a little wanting on the debauchery scale.