Hunter by name and trade, Michael is an outdoorsman, forager, hunter and professional chef with close to three decades of expertise in a professional kitchen. Born and raised on a horse farm in southern Ontario, Canada, his dream was to own a restaurant that would combine his love for food with a passion and respect for local and wild ingredients. Michael has used his experience in the outdoors to explore his culinary creativity, becoming chef and co-owner of Antler Kitchen and Bar in Toronto, Canada in 2015. Antler is strongly rooted in regional food culture—pure, fresh and seasonal. It embodies local flavor and spirit, offering contemporary dishes with an emphasis on game meat, sustainably caught wild fish, and wild foraged vegetables and fruit along with locally farmed ingredients that are always raised with passion and care. Antler has received countless accolades in all of the local and national magazines, newspapers, and more recently the internationally acclaimed Michelin Guide.

In the outdoors, Michael has hunted on three continents, chasing whitetails, elk, moose, muskox, mule deer, roe deer, waterfowl, wild boar, upland birds, small game and his first love, the wild turkey.

The Hunter Chef