Whoot! what a thrill to be featured in @AvenueMagazine – “5 Great Calgary Food Tours” by @JenntotheH

Cool thing #23 – Calgary Food Tours is featured in Avenue Magazine

5 Great Calgary Food Tours.

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