I love my company Calgary Food Tours Inc. and all the fun people I get to work with. Cheers to them for making our company a world class one! photo – Cole Anderson
Cool thing #23 – Calgary Food Tours is featured in Avenue Magazine
Thanks to Calgary’s Avenue Magazine Executive Editor Jennifer Hamilton for so clearing capturing and highlighting my company Calgary Food Tours Inc in the article above.
Yes, it’s true. When I’m not writing, I’m out on the streets of Calgary leading food tours. The tours are amazing because of the depth of Calgary’s food scene and the terrific partners we choose to showcase. Yet many people still don’t know what a food tour is or what we do.
Read on for a photo journey that will help you see why food tours are quickly becoming the number one attraction in cities around the globe.
To have a great food tour, you must have a great food city.
Calgary is a great food city and an amazing food destination. We are a great food city for the quality of the ingredients found here, the people cooking with those ingredients and the mavericks that add additional character to our food scene. We are also surrounded by natural beauty and have fun stories to tell about the history of this young city which is in full view of the Rocky Mountains and cozied up to two fresh water freely flowing rivers.
The best part of owning Calgary Food Tours Inc. is that because people think they “know” Calgary – we get to constantly surprise and delight locals and visitors with the sophistication of what’s really going on behind all the stereotypes people use to inform their opinion of this young city. The truth is mind-blowingly delicious and will make you rethink Calgary as Canada’s Chowtown and not just as its beloved old Cowtown. We love beef but like to make the point that what’s on the menu beyond beef is beyond belief.
Calgary Food Tours Inc. operates annually from May till mid-October and the tours are filled with food, fun and adventure. Our calendar and tickets are available on our website.
Taking time out for a food tour is a great way to savour it all. Enjoy this virtual tour until you get a chance to come on out and join us for a little food, fun and adventure. Cheers, Karen
food, wine, art, palate, palette photo – Karen Anderson
Millefiore at Hotel Arts photo – Karen Anderson
Cookbook Co Cooks owner Gail Norton discussing the art of cookbooks photo – Karen Anderson
perfectly framed bites for our Palette to Palate tour at the Cookbook Co Cooks photo – Karen Anderson
artful dessert at Avec Bistro photo – Karen Anderson
Avec Bistro anchoring one end of our Palette to Palate tour photo – Karen Anderson
Visiting with restauranteur Dewey Neurdorf at Brava Bistro photo – Karen Anderson
Ox and Angela owner Jayme MacFayden visits with guests photo – Karen Anderson
ACAD grad Tim Okamura’s work – never heard of him? Come and find out more about him on our Palette to Palate tour photo – Karen Anderson
Visiting with owner Pam Fortier at Decadent Desserts photo – Karen Anderson
Ox and Angela bring Spanish flavours to life for Calgary photo – Karen Anderson
CIBO’s private room is a cozy place to start our tours photo – Karen Anderson
What’s the story of this dark horse? photo – Karen Anderson
Butter tarts at Itza Bakeshop photo – Karen Anderson
fresh, local, seasonal at Brava Bistro photo – Karen Anderson
chefs Lance and Ryan at Bar C – shaking it up photo – Karen Anderson
learning about Elk at the Calgary Farmers’ Market photo – Karen Anderson
Spolumbo’s treats photo – Karen Anderson
always tasteful treats from owner Michelle Barby at Savour Fine Foods photo – Karen Anderson
what does this chocolate and The Naked Leaf tea shop have in common? a lot photo – Karen Anderson
Mojitos by chef Lance Monteiro at Bar C photo – Karen Anderson
Kensington Riverside Inn – such a lovely place to gather photo – Karen Anderson
Visitors from Australia showing us where they’re from photo – Karen Anderson
Italian dolce by Ida Durante of Zucchero at Spolumbo’s photo – Karen Anderson
The Naked Leaf tea shop owner Jonathan Kane and guests photo – Karen Anderson
Ox and Angela help us Savour 17th SW photo – Karen Anderson
Avonlea cheddar at Janice Beaton Fine Cheese photo – Karen Anderson
coconut cupcake at Decadent Desserts – simply beautiful photo – Karen Anderson
la piece de resistance at Avec Bistro photo – Karen Anderson
a sample of the hospitality that made Kensington Riverside Inn Calgary’s only Relais et Chateaux photo – Karen Anderson
Norwegians noshing on their first poutine at Brasserie Kensington photo – Karen Anderson
Colour theory explained on our Palette to Palate tour by Metrovino Wines’ Richard Harvey photo – Karen Anderson
Brulee’s sweets photo – Karen Anderson
fresh greens at JBFC – Farm photo – Karen Anderson
Gibson Fine Art gallery owner Patti Dibski shares art approachability with our guests photo – Karen Anderson
churros and chocolate at Ox and Angela photo – Karen Anderson
chef Duncan Ly’s Pad Thai at Hotel Arts photo – Karen Anderson
We get to decorate our own cupcake at Crave photo – Karen Anderson
Tastings at Kensington Wine Market are always a delight photo – Karen Anderson
cheese please at Janice Beaton Fine Cheese photo – Karen Anderson
such a pretty cake at Wilde Grainz in Inglewood photo – Karen Anderson
truffle popcorn photo – Karen Anderson
“the Mom” behind all those Cravelicious recipes – Helen McIntyre at Crave in Kensington photo – Karen Anderson
Brasserie Kensington – because its FUN photo – Karen Anderson
Sweets from Rouge photo – Karen Anderson
chef Duncan Ly at Hotel Arts photo – Karen Anderson
Do you know what Turkish Baharat is? Our guests sure do. photo – Karen Anderson
Sharp knives rock at knifewear photo – Karen Anderson
Crave cookies – everyone forgets they make cookies photo – Karen Anderson
Tea Trader – refreshing every time! photo – Karen Anderson
GM – Rene Bousquet at Rouge always has a wine and a story to go with it photo – Karen Anderson
Blending spices at Silk Road Spice Merchants photo – Karen Anderson
chef Judy Wood – on tour at the Calgary Farmers’ market photo – Karen Anderson
CIBO and Calgary Food Tours Inc share a lot of the same values – we love to work with this group photo – Karen Anderson
Scott Epple of Gull Valley at the Calgary Farmers’ Market
Chef Lance Monteiro at BarC photo – Karen Anderson
Brava – an oasis on 17thSW photo – Karen Anderson
house made ice cream and flour less chocolate cake at Rouge photo – Karen Anderson
CIBO kitchen – open and honest photo – Karen Anderson
Calgary Food Tours Inc. beekeeper extraordinaire Eliese Watson of @yycbees
Beef Tartare from Silver Sage at the Calgary Farmers’ Market
Shelley Bradshaw is founder of Innisfail Growers – a successful model of cooperative family farms – photo – Karen Anderson
Brulee pastry art photo – Karen Anderson
Crave lemon tarts photo – Karen Anderson
We visit Calgary Food Tours Inc.’s 2 beehives in the garden at Rouge photo – Karen Anderson
Rouge likes to surprise us – we love their surprises! photo – Karen Anderson
Crave ice box cookie cake photo – Karen Anderson
Katie Mayer of Hotel Arts Group cycled over to join our Inglewood tour one day photo – Karen Anderson
Me checking on my bees with my beekeeping guru Eliese Watson (we don’t open the hives on the tours!) photo – Karen Anderson
Owner Brad Churchill of Choklat with his bean-to-bar chocolate photo – Karen Anderson
5 tours per week – I’ll drink to that photo – Karen Anderson
Oh Karen, spectacular! You are making me so hungry! And opening my eyes about Calgary. Can’t wait to check it out more.
I will look forward to your return Tandi!
hugs, K