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A top Icelandic chef will be in Winnipeg later this week at Wow! Hospitality restaurants 529 Wellington and Terrace Fifty-Five in Assiniboine Park.

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A top Icelandic chef will be in Winnipeg later this week at Wow! Hospitality restaurants 529 Wellington and Terrace Fifty-Five in Assiniboine Park.

Chef Hákon Már Örvarsson has cooked for some of the world’s top dignitaries, according to a Wow! news release.

From Thursday through Sunday, he will be preparing his innovative cuisine alongside 529 Wellington’s chef de cuisine, Fraser McLeod, and Terrace Fifty-Five’s executive chef, John Scarcella.

Örvarsson’s promotional trip to Winnipeg is an initiative of the Iceland Naturally tourist agency.

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