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How was your summer?
I’m guessing it was pretty wet if you staycationed, but I hope it was delicious wherever you were, and that you found time to cook outside, eat outside, and enjoy a few cold sips outside too.
I love how many summer festivals there are now in every city and town, and for every interest – particularly, for me, the food festivals and the cultural festivals where I get to learn and try new foods, and meet new producers and restaurants that I may not know yet.
On that note, we had a staggering number of new restaurants open since our July/August issue went to print late June. So much so that it took more than three pages in this issue to tell you about them (and there were some that didn’t quite make the grade and that we didn’t feel we could honestly stand behind and recommend to you). It’s a lot of work visiting them all and trying their menus and drinks lists so we can let you know what we think is good and why you should visit, but you don’t hear any complaints from anyone on our team.
It’s interesting to see all over the province, that we can’t ever have enough Italian food options - in all its forms, whether that’s pizza or more elevated dishes (or both in one restaurant), and evidently burger bars just never go out of style!
Our 13th edition of the Alberta Beverage Awards took up most of our July, not only organizing into flights and judging blind many, many hundreds of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages of every type you can think of, but then the ginormous task of tallying the scores. We can’t wait for October for you to see all the results!
And before I bid you farewell, just a little reminder that our Edmonton Treasure hunt is coming up fast on Sunday September 14, and places are available for one of the most fun and rewarding discovery days of the year! Sign up as a team of two or solo, on our website at culinairemagazine.ca/ treasure-hunt.
