Tasty tidbits
🥌 Gimli’s Interlake Brewing Co. is dishing out draw weight and curls to the button via a small sheet of curling ice on the brewery’s rooftop patio. The sheet at 72-1 Ave. (in the old Whitecaps space) is open for drop-in rock tossing Saturdays and Sundays from 2 to 4 p.m. and for casual bonspiels (sign up solo or with a team of two) from 4 to 8 p.m.
🍇 The Fairmont Winnipeg (2 Lombard Pl.), in partnership with Jones & Company Wine Merchants, is welcoming Brian Lynn, proprietor of Majella Wines, for an evening of food and wine on Tuesday, March 4 as part of the hotel’s Signature Dinner Series. Lynn, based in Australia’s Coonawarra region (known for its red soils and stellar Cabernet Sauvignons), will talk about the four wines being poured at the event, which will be served alongside a three-course meal. The reception starts at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $129 plus taxes and are available here.
♀️Women’s Health Clinic is hosting its annual Fête de Fem celebration for International Women’s Day on Saturday, March 8 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq. Attendees will enjoy appetizers from some of the city’s top female and non-binary chefs, drink pairings and musical entertainment. Tickets are $200 and are available here, with proceeds from the event going to the Graham Avenue clinic, which had to close temporarily last week due to issues with aging infrastructure.
🍰Asian-French fusion bakery For Us is relocating from its current location on Henderson Highway to a new home at 1353 McPhillips St. The bakery — known for its inventive cream puffs and crêpe cakes — was opened in 2019 by baker Shen Wu, who describes the move as bittersweet in an Instagram post. The new shop, located south of Northgate Shopping Centre, is expected to open in April.
Recommended fare
Ben: I gave the Sookram’s Brewing Co. Dark Raspberry Cosmos a test drive recently, and it did not disappoint. It’s a riff on the brewery’s standard Cosmos, a dry-hopped sour, but is made with dark malts and loaded up with raspberries. Darker in appearance but not as weighty as a stout, the brew retains some of the tartness of the original Cosmos while adding subtle chocolatey notes from the malt and jammy red berry flavours. You can grab from the brewery, 479-B Warsaw Ave., Liquor Marts or beer vendors for $4.75/473 ml can (plus deposit). Oh, and Sookrams celebrates six years of beers on Saturday, March 8 with a whole pile of new brews, food pop-ups in the tap room and more.
Eva: If I didn’t make myself clear above, Ina Garten’s Be Ready When the Luck Happens is a great read. Casual, funny, illuminating and interspersed with recipes. Available at McNally Robinson Booksellers, the Winnipeg Public Library and elsewhere.
Homemade
Festival du Voyageur is fini, but these reader recipes for French fare live on. Our latest Homemade feature includes tourtière from Vicki Henderson, French onion soup from Janice Scott and tarte sucre à la crème from Paulette Duguay. Next week, we’re focusing on birthday desserts. Visit Homemade to send in a celebratory recipe.
Tarte sucre à la crème is an annual tradition for the Duguay clan. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
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