2019 Leadership Award
Radical Gardens
Timmins, Ontario
Radical Gardens is a farmstead, turned restaurant, bakery, food truck, event company, digital marketplace and community hub in Timmins. Described as having “redefined foodservice, agriculture and access in Northern Ontario” they are a small business tackling big issues by innovating everything from farming practices to supply chain management.
Finalists included: Taste of Burlington, Taste Detours
2019 Experience Award
Ottercreek Woodworks
Tillsonburg, Ontario
The Tree-to-Table Experience by Ottercreek Woodworks is truly one of a kind. Guests enjoy a guided walk inside the Carolinian Forest with woodworker Dave Schonberger before heading into his workshop to create their own live-edge charcuterie board. After, they enjoy local charcuterie and cheeses while socializing around a massive pine table and reflecting on all they’ve learned. There is nothing else like it!
ottercreekwoodworks.com
Finalists included: Saints & Sinners Bootleggers Trail, Killarney Lodge
2019 Event Of The Year
Big Cheese Days by the Oxford County Cheese Trail
Oxford County, Ontario
Oxford is Canada’s Dairy Capital. Big Cheese Days was to created to celebrate Ontario’s cheese and dairy in a mammoth way. Visitors enjoy special experiences to celebrate cheese and dairy along the trail. The event is so popular, it’s been repeated for 3 years on Saturdays in May.
OxfordCountyCheeseTrail.ca
Finalists included: Cheers Caledon!, Farm to Table Community Celebration
Culinary Tourism in Ontario tells the magnificent story of our food, our land and our varied people. This years’ champions will, as their predecessors did, exemplify the innovation in story telling that satiates the growing appetite of folks to experience local flavours.
2018
Leadership Award
Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island
Experience Award
Johnston’s Cranberry Marsh
Event of the Year Award
FUNKfest by Sawdust City Brewing
2017
Leadership Award
Peterborough & Kawarthas Tourism
Experience Award
The Apple Pie Trail
Event of the Year Award
Beau’s Oktoberfest
2016
Leadership Award
Norfolk County
Experience Award
Niagara Culinary Tours
Event of the Year Award
Taste-Real : Local Food Fest
2015
Leadership Award
The Apple Pie Trail
Experience Award
Savour Toronto
Event of the Year Award
The Chatham-Kent Table
2014
Leadership Award
Windsor Eats
Experience Award
Foodies On Foot
Event of the Year Award *NEW!*
Savour Simcoe
2012
Experience Award
The Apple Pie Trail
Leadership Award
The Savour Stratford Perth County Culinary Festival
2011
Experience Award
The Savour Stratford Perth County Culinary Festival
Leadership Award
Savour Ottawa