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Celebrating Culinary Creations

Local restaurants take centre stage at Alberta on the Plate dine around event

Jul 9, 2021 | 1:01 PM

Red Deer is one of several communities across the province taking part in a festival next month, aimed at highlighting and celebrating Alberta’s food stories.

Restaurants in Red Deer, Airdrie, Lacombe, Elnora, Leduc, Camrose, Devon, Sylvan Lake, Rosebud, Trochu, Wetaskiwin, Vermillion and St. Albert are participating in the third annual Alberta on the Plate dine around festival August 6-15.

Eighty-eight unique restaurants in 27 communities throughout Alberta featuring over 200 farms and producers are highlighted in this year’s event.

This year’s central Alberta restaurant contingent includes:

  • Airdrie – Abe’s Modern Diner, Ferraro Truly Italian, Flavours of Montreal, and Jam’s
  • Camrose – Hart House Wine & Tapa
  • Cochrane – Community Flatbread Co., and Fence & Post
  • Devon – HomeRoom Diner
  • Elnora – D & A Gardens
  • Lacombe – Cilantro and Chive
  • Leduc – Habaneros Mexican Grill
  • Red Deer – Bo’s Bar & Stage, Cilantro and Chive, and Gasoline Alley Farmers’ Market
  • Rosebud – Rosebud Country Inn Pie Shoppe & Eatery
  • St. Albert – Tryst Wine & Small Plates
  • Sylvan Lake – Lodge 43
  • Trochu – Sweetgrass Café
  • Vermillion – The Red Brick
  • Wetaskiwin – The Glens Grill

“This slate of restaurants showcases the local flavours that influence each region of the province,” stated Tannis Baker, Director of Big Ideas with Food Tourism Strategies, in a press release. “From the Indigenous peoples who shaped our land, to the immigration influences of the French, Ukrainian, Chinese and Vietnamese, the Alberta territory is shaped by the people as much as by the land which is reflected in the diversity of the restaurants, food products and culinary creators across Alberta.”

Alberta on the Plate is a province-wide dine around where participating restaurants offer fixed price menus highlighting local producers, growers, distillers, and brewers. It takes place in conjunction with Alberta Local Food Week and wraps up the same weekend as Open Farm Days.

For a full list of Alberta on the Plate participating restaurants, visit www.albertaontheplate.com.