EnRoute Magazine - Reader's Choice

What began as a simple café with homemade soups, breads and chutneys has grown with the emergence of young French partners. Bistro dinners are "superbly prepared" and "served unpretentiously in relaxed 'artsy' suroundings."

Airlines Magazine
Calories you can count on – Saskatoon's French Bistro
By Johwanna Alleyne


Saskatoon's Calories restaurant is a favorite for special occasions and nights out. This French-style bistro proves there is nothing pretentious about good food.
Staff is friendly and knowledgeable, and clientele know each one by name. Despite its casual and welcoming style, Calories is popular because of the sophistication and French background chef and owner Remi Cousyn brings to the table.
The wine list is a gift to anyone who has ever wanted to taste great wine.
It's Bistro dining in the middle of the Canadian Prairie that is sure to please.

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Western Living Magazine
Applause for a French chef, prairie ingredients and four star service.
By Anne Suche

This smart yet unpretentious place suprises and delights. Rémi Cousyn, has impressive culinary credentials. Born in Nice, France, he trained under Rodger Vergé at Le Moulin des Mougins and worked in Italy, Switzerland, Montreal and Whistler, B.C. before coming to Saskatoon. In his open kitchen at the back, Cousyn makes the simplest fare sing. Great service, great value.

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Western Living Magazine

Chef Remi Cousyn's simple, colourful handling of fresh fish consistently wins raves from his Calories patrons.

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The Saskatoon Sun
Renovated Calories open for business

By Peter Wilson

Good news for those that haven't heard yet; Calories Restaurant's renovations have been completed and the popular Broadway dining spot is once again open for business. The new renovations are a win/win situation for customers and staff, with an expanded eating area and a much improved kitchen.

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Gazel.ca
Calories Bakery and Restaurant : de la fine cuisine française au cœur des Prairies
By Jean-Paul Gagné

Le succès du nouveau look « bistro » de l’établissement est immédiat. Mettant l’accent sur la qualité et le caractère distinctif de ses produits, le restaurant séduit les fins palais et amateurs de haute gastronomie. Selon Rémi, qui, depuis septembre 2000, est l’unique propriétaire du restaurant, le menu a été conçu pour miser sur les « acquis » du restaurant, tels que les desserts, de manière à permettre au restaurant d’innover et d’offrir à sa clientèle des plats qui sortent de l’ordinaire.

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Saskatoon District Health – Public Health Services

Congratulations on having a smoke free restaurant. The Medical Health Officer of Saskatoon District Health would like to present you with a Certificate of Merit in recognition of your smoke-free restaurant.

 

A Recipe for Romance
Valentines Day Should Start with Fine Dining
by Betsy Rosenwal


If you can't make it to Paris for February 14th, my pick for romance would be Calories, Saskatoon's casually sophisticated French restaurant. Its husband and wife owners, Chef Rémi and Janis Cousyn, combine a tastefully subdued atmosphere with inventively prepared, delicious food that along with an excellent wine list will entice you into letting down your guard. There is no better place in all of Saskatoon for this kind of happy ending.

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Calories has gone from bakery to French bistro, yet maintained its prairie simplicity.  The old plank floors and light earth tones compliment the chicken and seafood menu. It's still a good place for a morning coffee and pastry or for a slice of cake or pie.

 

Canada's Best New Chefs,
Accolades for a New Gastronomic Culture
by Toby Saltzman

Calories Bakery and Restaurant blossomed from a neighbourhood dessert and cappuccino bar to a notable dining room on the strength of Chef Rémi Cousyn's classical French mindset. Today, Cousyn, 33, draws an eclectic, savant crowd to the unpretentious, Parisian-style bistro-cum-art-gallery tucked in a Strip of 1900s heritage buildings next door to the Broadway Theatre, one of Canada's few remaining repertoire cinemas. Cousyn's daring menu reflects his quest to fuse Canadian ingredients with an international palate.

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Best of Saskatoon Awards
A people's choice reader's poll

2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 – Best Dessert Spot
2004, 2005, 2006 – Best French Restaurant
2005, 2006 – Best Vegetarian Friendly Restaurant
2006 – Best Soup

City Flavours: Big City Cuisine on Broadway
By Darlene Gulas-Bomok

I am always content after eating at Calories. Remi and Janis Cousyn could open a Calories in Toronto or Paris and it would thrive. Saskatoon is a tough market; however, Remi, with his French culinary training, creates top quality fare, which entices a loyal clientele. There are dishes that I have had at Calories that have raised the bar.

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Bridal Sweets
by Elizabeth Withey

Fruitcake? Icing rosettes? Lace? Please. We wanted ourwedding guests to eat thecake, not recoil in horror. Together, my husband and I jumped the barbed wire fence of wedding cake tradition. We wanted something adventurous. Fun. Something the guests couldn't wait to devour. And certainly something chocolate. With the help of Calories Restaurant in Saskatoon, we dreamed up an architectural marvel that would reflect our style and make every guest say "1 do" to dessert.

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Seven Surprises of Southern Saskatchewan
by Laura Robin

Calories, in Saskatoon, keeps its name from the days when it was simply a dessert cafe. Now it’s a renowned restaurant and food shop, selling fresh breads and locally made granola, and serving gourmet dinners in a bistro setting. Chef Remi Cousyn’s menu changes regularly but look for such specialties as Saskatoon Berry Lemonade, Saskatchewan Goose Rilletes and Northern Pike on a Saskatchewan wild-rice, leek and black trumpet pilaf. But don’t forget its famous desserts. Gourmet magazine has written to request several of the recipes; its toffee cheesecake is legendary.

Best Entertainment Area

The place to be is Broadway, a historic avenue originally designed to allow a 180-degree turn by a team of horses and wagon. Favourite stops include the Taj Mahal Restaurant, Calories Bakery and Restaurant and the Yard and Flagon Pub.

Calories of the Classiest Kind
- Long lived restaurant keeps things fresh and fantastic

by Noelle Chorney

Calories has been around a long time - it is their 20th anniversary this year, in fact. But make no mistake, they certainly haven't been resting on their laurels. There's been for example the development of Souleio, a new all-natural food line in partnership with Pine View Farms. And Calories hasn't forgotten how to treat their customers either...I'm sure no matter what you order, you won't be disappointed.

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Canada's Best Restaurants - A coast to coast culinary odyssey of where to eat well
by Evelyn Brown (in Saskatchewan)

Not merely the standard list of top eateries across the land, certainly they are represented, but we wanted to hear of those legendary spots that magically capture the mood of their city or town... Calories Restaurant's chef brought his skills to Saskatoon 10 years ago with this hugely successful cafe. Expect wholesome, well prepared dishes made with the freshest ingredients, often organic, and French panache.

 

Local Food on the Menu a Tasty Find
by Amy Jo Ehman

Where do you eat when you want to eat local food? I am frequently asked this question and, I am glad to say, the answer is getting easier.
One of the leaders in local cuisine is chef Rémi cousyn of Calories Restaurant on Broadway Avenue.

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Chefs, Farmers Cook up Ways to use Locally Produced Foods
by Lori Coolican

When gourmet chefs and farmers converged this weekend on a downtown hotel for a day of networking and discussion about locally produced food, the hotel had to find a larger room to accommodate their numbers.

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Ten years ago, Melanie and Kevin Boldt fulfilled a dream and bought a farm near Osler. They built a butcher shop on their farm with provincial certification and created a label called Pine View Farms.
Four years ago, they held the first Feast of Fields based on a concept that was popular on Vancouver Island. They teamed up with the owners of Calories restaurant in Saskatoon, Rémi and Janis Cousyn, to serve a beautiful dinner in a rustic setting using ingredients grown close to home.

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Where to eat when in Saskatoon

Last year, on February 14th, Mike, my spouse of 20 years, and I had planned an early dinner to suit our 81-year-old babysitter’s schedule! We celebrated at a local favorite: Calories.

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About Town – Saskatoon

Tucked in beside the Broadway Theatre art-house cinema, this is the lunch and dessert spot for your day trip. Chef-owner Rémi Cousyn, with co-owner and wife Janis, changes his French inspired menu monthly to take advantage of fresh herbs and edible flowers from his own garden and Saskatchewan’s organic producers.

 

Growing fresh herbs: Surprising kitchen gardens of Canadian city chefs

Herbal oasis in urban Saskatoon
For the past 13 years, besides creating delicious food, Chef Rémi Cousyn of Calories has been tending (with the help of his mother-in-law, Judith Hutton) a bountiful plot of land nestled next to his Saskatoon bistro. Tarragon, sage, basil, cilantro, arugula, and calendula are a few of his preferred herbs; although, born in Provence, he especially loves thyme and rosemary. Menu favourites at Calories often feature home-grown produce: from a unique dressing made with nasturtiun leaves, to a savoury potato-and-swiss-chard gratin. For the herb garden newbie Cousyn recommends perennials: “It’s a bit of a lazy pleasure to get plants the following year with very little effort!”

 

At Calories restaurant in Saskatoon, Provence-born chef-owner Rémi Cousyn has been using Katahdin fro his merguez sausages as well as other dishes.
“It’s very good. There is no muttony smell,” Mr. Cousyn says.

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