Briana Kim

"Now more than ever, makers and creators in Ottawa want to be the best in what they do. Not just in the city, but in the country, and you feel that energy.”

From her apartment, Briana launched her own catering business where she’d have to stay up all night swapping meal after meal in her small conventional oven to be ready by morning. A bigger kitchen is all she wanted, a trendy plant-based restaurant is what she turned it into. Café My House is full of the unexpected thanks to Briana’s fearless adoption of molecular gastronomy. Her entirely plant-based ginger-marinated mushroom “steak” was the showstopping dish at Ottawa’s Gold Medal Plates that won first place.