Kingbridge Centre

At the Kingbridge Centre, you will find a variety of dining options available to further enhance your group’s experience. In keeping with the Kingbridge vision, our outlets reflect an environment that connects people and builds bridges to learning.

Connections Dining Room:
Overlooking the grounds of the Kingbridge Conference Centre & Institute, Connections Dining Room offers a combination of globally influenced buffets and entrées crafted in our open concept kitchen that will be sure to stimulate positive conversation.

See sample menu

Bridges Bar:
Just as a bridge connects locations, a conference centre connects individuals, ideas and organizations. With its one of a kind bar crafted of rare Rhodesian
Teak recovered from the same rail system, Bridges Bar is the ideal setting for end of day debriefs with colleagues or experiencing informal learning. Bridges Bar features an extensive selection of beers, wines and spirits as well as a unique pub-style menu.

In-Room Dining:
For those looking to unwind and reflect upon the days meeting, In-Room dining
is available to enjoy in the comfort of your guestroom.

Private Dining:
Whether looking to have a pre-meeting business breakfast or an elegantly served banquet dinner, the Kingbridge Conference Centre
& Institute has a wide variety of venues and menu options to further enhance your meeting experience. From an intimate setting for 10 people, to a grand ballroom for 200, indoors or out, Kingbridge has something to fit your private dining needs.

See Banquet Menus

Kingbridge Culinary Experience:
Experience first hand the delight in creating a gourmet meal with
your own two hands.
Let our Executive Chef and his team, take you and your colleagues on a “culinary tour” and stimulate your senses with the tastes & smells of cuisines from around the world. Your team will be given the tools and will work together to create their culinary masterpiece.

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Wine Tasting:
Relax with coworkers at the end of the day and learn about old and new world wines. This wine tour is designed to introduce its participants to a variety of wines and the history and nuances of each featured wine. Guests will sample a number of wines while receiving a history of the wine and it’s winery as well as the flavors that are specific to the particular variety of grape. This is an ideal pre-dinner activity or a great compliment to your private dinner.

Raimund A. Zyvatkauskas, CCC
Executive Chef

  A sailing enthusiast and second-generation chef, Chef
  Raimund Zyvatkauskas is deeply passionate about food
  and cooking. He believes a great meal requires both
  quality ingredients and superb craftsmanship. The wide
  range of menus at Kingbridge reflects the depth and
  variety of his experience.

  He started his career as a teenager working in a
  boutique hotel, then later apprenticed under Josef von
  Lanthen, a direct culinary descendant of the great
  Auguste Escoffier. Raimund went on to become
  Executive Chef of the largest hotel in Canada.

Voted the Greater Toronto Area Chef of the Year by his peers in 1999, Chef Raimund recently chaired the Canadian Culinary Institute and Raimund is a past-Chair of the Culinary Advisory Board for George Brown College as well as being on the advisory board for hospitality programs at Centennial College.

Raimund won the coveted Best Event of the Year by the prestigious Chaine des Rotisseurs, an internationally renowned society of gourmets dedicated to the fellowship of the table.

The idyllic natural setting of the Kingbridge Centre provides Raimund with creative inspiration. He serves fiddleheads gathered from the surrounding woods and enjoys showing guests his extensive vegetable and herb garden. He happily shares his culinary experience with guests in team-building cooking experiences.

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