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We love the produce of Alberta and the talented chefs in our province who showcase it. That’s why it was such an honour for our President Karen Anderson to be chosen for a seat at ATB financial’s Long Table Dinner in Calgary in June, 2015. ATB has sponsored a series of “think tank” long table…

We had the chance to meet Eating Europe owner Kenny Dunne at the first Global Food Tourism Conference. He has a background in marketing and produced this great “abstract” video to make the point that if you are visiting a new city (or Rome in this case) you’d love to follow a local around and…

Flood magazine’s Laura Studarus wrote a piece on Calgary Food Tours as her choice in the magazine staff pick’s for The Best of 2014. It’s a pretty big deal when one of the major voices for “all things culture” in Los Angeles writes an article raving about a food tour in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Especially…

Hot off the press! Canadian Expat Mom Lisa Webb writes about our Craving Kensington tour and if you read it you’ll see we call it that for a reason. There are so many treats on this tour. It is one of our most popular. Lisa is a true food enthusiast with a keen eye for…

Food blogger Tara Noland booked into our Craving Kensington food tour as a treat for an out of town guest. We didn’t know about Tara’s phenomenally successful blog. Tara just showed up to enjoy the day with her friend and she wasn’t fussed at all that we didn’t know about it. Her modesty was a…

Here’s a link to the article called “Surprising Calgary” (pages 46 – 47). It was part of an Air Transat feature on Alberta as “The Canadian Eden”. How cool is that? Kudos to the writers Helene Laurendeau, Mamzelle Poppy and Sarah-Emilie Nault who came with their photography crew to enjoy four Alberta cities in four…

Here’s a Media Post article by the World Food Travel Association’s Eric Wolf entitled Food Tourism: The Latest Fad Or Here To Stay?   With 25% of vacation dollars spent on food, the article makes a call for regions to consider differentiating their area’s brand of food. Turns out tasting the truly regional specialties of an…

Alberta is reinventing itself as a culinary destination – You Are Where You Eat Sep 16, 2014 by Alix Kemp The local food movement has taken off in Alberta, evidenced by an exploding interest in farmers’ markets, increasing numbers of restaurants that boast locally sourced produce and a growing contingent of food-centric festivals. But it…

Thanks two Phoenix and senior reporter Lisa Wolansky at Trending on Shaw for the fun opportunity to talk about what we do at Calgary Food Tours Inc. and to share some of our favourite local food products. It was my first time on live television. Did I seem nervous? I wasn’t. But, only because Lisa…

It may not be the silver screen but we were thrilled to be included in this Telus TV series called Calgary Eats and to have our Kensington tour highlighted in this short video clip. People ask us all the time, what’s a food tour? Now we have this beautiful visual answer to share with them.