January 23, 2012

As you are a valued member of our community, and a past guest of one of our Muskoka resorts, we would like to share with you some recent changes within the Delta chain.

Our three Muskoka properties - Grandview, Rocky Crest and Sherwood Inn - are all owned by ClubLink, which is Canada's largest owner, operator and developer of private golf clubs.

Delta and ClubLink have been evaluating their respective strategic plans, and after a decade of excellent partnership, we have mutually agreed that the management of the three resort properties in Muskoka will return to ClubLink as of February 12, 2012.

Rocky Crest and Sherwood Inn will continue to operate as non-branded resort properties after the transition, and we understand that ClubLink is currently evaluating the options available to them for the Grandview property.

Starting February 12, Delta-branded programs and services, including Delta Privilege, will no longer be available at these resorts. However, all bookings and business commitments made at Rocky Crest and Sherwood Inn for the period beginning February 12 will continue to be honoured by the properties.

We have been proud to manage these resorts for the past ten years, and we wish our colleagues and the Muskoka tourism community every success for the future.

Sincerely,

Ken Lambert
Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Restaurants and Dining

Meet the Chef

Simplicity meets culinary creativity in the kitchens at Delta Rocky Crest Resort. Here, ingredients are allowed to express their natural flavours, albeit with somewhat exotic accents. A plate of fresh shrimp, for instance, might arrive at your table with a kick of spicy sambal and chili-spiked dark chocolate cream. And that traditional rack of lamb may surprise you with its mint chutney fortified with Chablis. Hungry yet? Let the culinary team at Delta Rocky Crest Resort satisfy your appetite with a unique cuisine that will be as memorable as the rest of your vacation.

Chef

Meet the chef
Patrick Louch, Executive Chef
Delta Rocky Crest Resort

Go ahead and play with your food. Patrick Louch won’t mind. The Executive Chef behind the menus at Delta Rocky Crest Resort believes people should be creative with food, especially when they’re cooking it.

“As a chef, I think it’s important to have a sense of fun and playfulness,” says Louch, who studied at Humber College in Toronto before working for more than a decade at the Valhalla Inn and later as a tourism coordinator for the city of Timmins. “While you do need to have a certain set of skills and experience to be able to cook, it’s even more important to be able to trust the ingredients in front of you, trust your instincts, and put your creative soul into the food.”

The result of Louch’s cooking philosophy is what he calls “simply sexy food – dishes that meld new and interesting flavours, textures and colours. Louch says people taste first with their eyes and noses, which is why he always makes sure the dishes at Delta Rocky Crest Resort look and smell as delicious as they taste.

“For example, we sear our flax-crusted salmon so that the flax seeds and crunchy and crispy while the salmon is rich and flavourful,” he says. “Then we top it off with a green apple slaw with a bit of pineapple juice for fresh cool liveliness.”

Louch is equally uncompromising when it comes to quality, focusing on fresh and locally-sourced ingredients such as cranberries, which he loves to include in as many dishes as possible. Even the pastas as Delta Rocky Crest Resort are made from scratch and hand-rolled, usually by Louch himself.

“I’m a hands-on chef,” he says. “As much as I provide the leadership and oversee the quality of our restaurants, I am also very much in the kitchen, cooking and, yes, playing with the food.”
 
 
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