Categories: Food & Drink

Here’s a list of new & exciting items you can try at this year’s Taste of Calgary food festival

Photo via Taste of Calgary / Facebook

We hope you’ve still got an appetite after Stampede week because summer 2022 is going to be forkin’ delicious and the fun has just begun! This August, leave the cooking to the pros and hit Taste of Calgary, which is finally returning after a two-year hiatus.

Featuring global cuisine and local restaurants bars and companies, this highly anticipated event celebrates the best food, drink and entertainment that the city has to offer.

This year, in addition to it being held at a new location (Calgary Parking Authority Lot #6 – 311 8 Street SW), the event will showcase new participants and a variety of contemporary dishes never before seen at Taste of Calgary.

Along with a wide variety of vendors, interactive activities, artisans, entrepreneurs, and musicians, here’s just a taste of what attendees can sink their teeth into this year!

NEW FOR 2022

Maritime Lobster Roll – 6 Tickets, Blowers and Grafton
The Creamy One (Cookies + Cream vanilla dough filled with a cheesecake core) – 4 Tickets, CHUNK’D
Crispy Buffalo Chick’n Burger (Vegan) – 5 Tickets, VBurger
Canmore Stampede (canned gin and tonic) – 3 Tickets, Wild Life Distillery
Canadian Boreal Gin – 3 Tickets, The Fort Distillery
Kwek-Kwek (crispy battered quail eggs) – 4 Tickets, Amihan Grill + Bakeshop

RETURNING FAVOURITES

Cotton Candy Ice Cream – 2 Tickets Foothills Creamery
Bannock Platter with Berry Sauce – 5 Tickets Kokoms Bannock Kitchen
5 Cheese Soft Pretzel – 7 Tickets Fantasy Donuts and Pretzels
Spicy Chicken & Cheese Sesame Donut – 7 Tickets Pure Modern Asian Kitchen
Mac and Cheese – 5 Tickets Flower and Wolf
Jerk Tofu – 7 Tickets Simply Irie

Sounds amazing right? Well, it gets better!

We hope you can walk and sip, because this year’s event will be licensed and gated – which means adults can stroll around trying food WITH a grown-up beverage in hand, plus – admission is totally FREE, with sample tickets going for $1 each.

For more information or to see the ENTIRE menu check out the website below, otherwise, we’ll see you out there, Calgary! You’re not going to want to miss it!