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brick oven, puts out the best breads and
pastries imaginable (www.thenightoven.ca).
In Alberta, as Canada’s ranch heartland,
elk, bison, wild boar, caribou and beef—
which many refer to as Canadian Rocky
Mountain Cuisine—are plentiful. Canadian
Rocky Mountain Resorts has its own 540
acre game ranch to provide for its two
restaurants in the City of Calgary and dining
at the lodges in Banff , Lake Louise and
Emerald Lake (www.crmr.com/mountain-
city-restaurants-rockies). Chuck’s Steak
House in Banff off ers a full-on taste of
Alberta raised beef with a platter containing
5 oz. each of wagyu, prime and grass fed dry-
aged steaks (www.chuckssteakhouse.ca ).
ONTARIO
COUNTLESS TASTE TRAILS
AND FOOD FESTIVALS
Home to the Ontario Pork Council,
LAURENTIANS, QC • TOURISM LAURENTIANS
Stratford, famous for the Stratford Festival,
boasts a Bacon & Ale Trail along with a
BRITISH COLUMBIA ingredients in the forest: fi ddleheads, Chocolate Trail and seasonal trails such
BOUNTY FROM THE OCEAN, licorice fern, big leaf maple fl owers, as Foraging for Wild Edibles (www.
FORESTS & LAND nettles, oyster mushrooms and wild visitstratford.ca).
Specialties on the menu in British chamomile, to name a few (www.swallow In Prince Edward County, pop into a
Columbia include wild salmon, golden tail.ca). Edible Canada on Granville Island cidery, brewery, or ice cream shop for a cold
honey mussels, spot prawns, geoduck, BC off ers a restaurant, artisan retail shop treat or sample fi ne pinots and chardon-
bison, Fraser Valley duck and Salt Spring and handpicked gift baskets containing nays at wineries in this picturesque area on
Island lamb. locally-made gourmet products (www. the north shore of Lake Ontario. Check out
There is a wide range of guided ediblecanada.com ). the cool cocktail and food scene at the
culinary tours—sometimes led by chefs— Drake Devonshire (www.thedrake.ca ), enjoy
in southern B.C., particularly near the THE PRAIRIES fresh laid eggs for breakfast at one of the
Okanagan Valley, Cowichan Valley and GRASSLAND GRAINS AND bucolic B&Bs such as Wilfrid Boutique
Fraser Valley. City tasting tours in Victoria, RANCHLAND MEATS Farmhouse (www.thewilfrid.com ) or sign
Vancouver and Whistler visit restaurants Manitoba’s Parkland region has a self- up for a cooking class to learn the tools of
and culinary neighbourhoods (www. guided Cinnamon Bun Trail with about the trade at The Waring House (www.
hellobc.com ). seven trail stops along the way (www.park waringhouse.com ).
Cornucopia Whistler, celebrating 23 landtourism.com/cinnamon-bun-trail). In Butter tarts were a staple of pioneer
years in November, is an annual 11-day season, Winnipeg’s Exchange District BIZ cooking in both Upper and Lower Canada
indulgence of local food and drink that off ers tours to some of their delectable one- (now Ontario and Québec). The townships
pairs homegrown chefs with top B.C. of-a-kind restaurants (www.exchangedistrict of Mapleton, Minto, Southgate, Wellington
producers, breweries, distilleries and .org/tours/food-tours). West End BIZ covers North and West Grey’s self-guided Butter
wineries (www.whistlercornucopia.com ). the eateries in the west end of the city (www. Tarts and Buggies Trail combines these
St. Lawrence, a Qué bé cois eatery in westendbiz.ca/west-end-restaurant-tours). sweetly delicious pastries with insights
Vancouver under Qué bec-born chef J.C. Eating and drinking tours of the downtown into the Mennonite culture (www.butter
Poirier, and The Courtney Room, a haute area feature cocktail crawls, beer and tartsandbuggies.com).
meat and seafood spot in Victoria, were in appetizer tours and even breakfast samplings Ottawa is home to the only Canadian
the top ten Canada’s Best New Restaurants (www.downtownwinnipegbiz.com/events). campus of the renowned Le Cordon Bleu
2018 by Air Canada’s enRoute magazine Saskatchewan has more than 40 percent French cooking school (www.cordonbleu.
(www.canadasbestnewrestaurants.com ). of Canada’s farmland and Saskatoon’s culi- edu/ottawa ). C’est Bon’s gourmet walking
Off the Eaten Track off ers fun foodie nary scene takes full advantage of it. Chef tours are an ideal introduction to the
tours such as the Gourmet Ice Cream & Dale Mackay at Ayden Kitchen and Bar, The National Capital Region’s vibrant food
Pizza Tour of Vancouver and the Chocolate Food Network’s Top Chef Canada season one scene (www.cestboncooking.ca/gourmet-
and Churches tour of Victoria (www. winner, shows off the bounty of the land food-tours ).
vancouver .off theeatentracktours.ca). On (www.aydenkitchenandbar.com ). The Night Ontario has some 450 annual culinary-
the Wild Foraging – BC Rainforest Lunch Oven Bakery which uses local, organic and themed festivals and events many of which
& Walk, off ered by Swallow Tail Culinary heirloom grains such as red fi fe, mills the are listed in their on-line calendar (www.
Tours, participants discover native B.C. fl our in-house and bakes in a wood-fi red ontarioculinary.com ). 
