Where Korilla's Beef Comes From: Inside a Fourth-Generation Alberta Ranch
Most restaurants say "premium beef" and leave it there. At Korilla, the beef on your grill traces back to a specific place: Floating Stone Ranch, a family-run cattle operation in Alberta that's been raising cattle since 1918.
A ranch, not a supplier
Floating Stone Ranch sits near Floating Stone Lake, about three hours northeast of Edmonton. It's run by the Kotelko family — now in its fourth and fifth generation of Alberta ranchers, tracing back to a homestead their ancestors settled in 1918 near Vegreville. This isn't a commodity feedlot; it's a 3,000-head cow-calf operation where the same family has worked the same land for over a century.
Bred for taste, not scale
Floating Stone Ranch raises Speckle Park, a rare, Canadian-bred cattle breed developed specifically for flavour rather than volume. The ranch practices regenerative grazing — grazing methods designed to rebuild soil health and grassland over time rather than deplete it — and cattle are hand-selected by the ranch's own cattlemen, a process they call "cowboy-selected."
Why it matters at the table
Korilla's whole approach is built on a simple idea: the fun and energy of Korean BBQ doesn't have to come at the cost of quality. Sourcing from a ranch like Floating Stone — where the animals, the land, and the people raising them are known quantities, not a supply chain line item — is part of how that premium standard gets kept, cut after cut, table after table.
The short version
Who: Floating Stone Ranch, a fourth-generation, family-run Alberta ranch (Kotelko family)
Where: Floating Stone Lake, ~3 hours northeast of Edmonton, AB
Scale: 3,000-head cow-calf operation
Breed: Speckle Park, a rare Canadian breed raised for flavour
Practice: Regenerative grazing, cowboy-selected cattle
Next time you're at Korilla, the beef in front of you isn't just "Alberta beef" — it's beef with a ranch, a family, and a story behind it. Reserve your table at korilla.ca.
