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It really doesn’t matter where you are in Canmore,  you are surrounded by stunning views. We wanted to share our top five spots for great food AND great views. PD3 by Blake. The intimate fine dining restaurant atop a fully renovated 1962 Leland double decker bus has the perfect view of Canmore’s famous three sisters. You’ll be treated to the outstanding 5 course prix fixe menu (with a glass of on tap Prosecco to start) while you watch the golden evening light sweep across the mountains. Murrieta’s Canmore. In the summer, Murrieta’s has a wall of windows they can open up, and the view of the Ha Ling Peak and the East end of Rundle is stunning. If you aren’t too full after dinner, we highly recommend you say yes to dessert and try the flourless chocolate cake with a sour cherry compote and vanilla tobacco…

Every time I watch this video I get teary. I love where I live and this video really does it justice. So what are you waiting for? Check out our calendar and book some tours. Come share all the food, fun and adventure we have right here.

Country Guide Magazine February 16, 2016 Thanks going out to writer Steven Biggs who interviewed our founder Karen Anderson at length—and dug deep into her writing career —to portray the full impact of her work as a food writer and founder, owner and CEO of Calgary Food Tours and Alberta Food Tours, Inc. Catch the…

Toque and Canoe’s piece called The Artful Hotel – Where Every Room is a Gallery by Kim Gray features Calgary’s Hotel Arts – a business partner where we offer a private art and food appreciation tour called Palette to Palate. The Toque and Canoe article features several of our favourite paintings in the Hotel Arts’…

Here’s her article – Calgary 48. We loved having Arnette join us for our Palette to Palate art and food appreciation tour. She was a ton of fun and is a great appreciator of life, food and adventure. She fit right in! How about you? If you like great food, fun and adventure come on…

Alberta Food Tours has been proud to feature The Silk Road Spice Merchants on our Calgary – Inglewood Edibles – Made by Mavericks – food tours for many years. So it is with great delight that Alberta Food Tours owner Karen Anderson and her cookbook partner Noorbanu Nimji at A Spicy Touch announce a partnership…

A Spicy Touch – Family Favourites from Noorbanu Nimji’s Kitchen was recently launched and today was noted as one of the top cookbooks of 2015 in The Calgary Herald’s Cooking the Books – Cream of the Crop piece by Gwendolyn Richards. Alberta Food Tours, Inc. founder, president and CEO, Karen Anderson worked nine years with…

What a fun weekend Kristen and her friend Sarah had when they came to Calgary. Calgary Food Tours got to be a big part of their 48 hours and it was a delight. Check it out here:

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…