Emily Butcher's first food memories are of folding shrimp dumplings with her Grandma and eating sweet peas out of the garden in the Fraser Valley. Finding her footing at West Restaurant and Bar, she then moved to Winnipeg’s Deer + Almond. Emily found continual inspiration in special projects like RAW: almond and Chef Mandel Hitzer’s sense of playful creativity.
After winning Bronze at the 2020 Canadian Culinary Championships and competing on Top Chef Canada Season 9, Emily opened Nola in Winnipeg. Her food is inspired by the Prairie landscape but always rooted in her West Coast upbringing and Chinese heritage with surprising layers of flavour and texture.
