A regional celebration of the natural gifts of Newfoundland & Labrador food, culture, land & sea
September 17th - 19th, 2026 in Elliston, NL
The Chefs of Roots, Rants and Roars
Celebrated talent from near and far, cooking on the edge of the Atlantic.
Meet the chefs shaping this year's festival.

Blair Clemis
Major Tom
Calgary, AB
Originally from the small farming hamlet of Purple Springs, AB, Blair is a graduate of the SAIT Culinary Program in 2008. Since then, his early cooking career took him from Vancouver to the UK, then on to New York before settling down in Calgary, AB as the Head Chef of Model Milk in
2017.
Currently operating as the Culinary Director for Concorde Group’s Premium & Specialty Brands, Blair works with the teams at Model Milk, Pigeonhole 17th, Pigeonhole Downtown, Major Tom, Sky 360, and Barbarella.
