Tasty tidbits
🐻❄️ Unlimited beverage samples, live music and exotic animals. Brew at the Zoo returns to Assiniboine Park tonight from 7 to 10 p.m. for an after-hours, adults-only event featuring dozens of craft beer, cider, wine, spirit and non-alcoholic drink producers. Tickets start at $65 and are available here. Designated driver passes are also available for $30.
🪿 Prefer your beer caramelized with views of a common local denizen? Head down to FortWhyte Alive (1961 McCreary Rd.) on Monday, Sept. 23 at 6 p.m. for beer poking — which involves sticking a hot steel rod into a cold beer to enhance its flavour — hosted by One Great City Brewing Co., while migrating geese land on the nearby lake. Tickets are $55 and include two beers and fire-roasted bannock.
☕ EQ3 Bistro has closed. The brunch spot inside the local furniture company’s flagship Polo Park store opened in 2021 as a collaboration with Deer + Almond. Owner Mandel Hitzer and EQ3 later parted ways. The bistro announced its closure via Instagram in a post alluding to “exciting things” coming soon.
🥛 If you’ve been to The Forks Market and wondered where the frozen-yogurt kiosk Frogurts has gone, look no further than the spot between Ellement Wine + Spirits and the arcade. The owners have completely overhauled the menu and reopened as Skyr, named after the Icelandic yoghurt-ish stuff. The revamped (elevated?) menu features a number of dishes, both food and drink, that feature skyr — check out a few of the dishes here or see the Skyr Instagram page for more.
🍔 The ballots are in and three local eateries have ranked among the top five national Le Burger Week entries. The annual food festival wrapped last week with Carlos’s Cucina in Gimli, PVG Street Eats in Winnipeg and Jonesy’s Restaurant and Lounge coming in second, third and fourth, respectively, among this year’s cross-Canada participants.
🥞 The Applebee’s in Transcona reopens next week as two restaurants in one. Canada’s first Applebee’s and IHOP (1598 Regent Ave. W) launches Tuesday at 10 a.m. with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and free pancakes for the first 200 visitors.
Recommended fare
Ben: I went for lunch to Pizzeria Gusto (404 Academy Rd.) this past week, and a new-ish addition to their daytime menu was deliciously impressive. The Manzo Italiano is a sandwich served on a house-made roll topped with red wine-braise short rib, Peroni mustard, caramelized onions, provolone and banana peppers. It’s so damn tasty that it can be excused for being a touch messy. Comes with a fresh and tasty house salad.
Eva: Did you know The Grove Pub & Restaurant (164 Stafford St.) serves breakfast? The pub opens early on Saturday and Sunday with a short but tasty breakfast menu that includes its famed French fries masquerading as hashbrowns.
Homemade
Harvest season is exciting and overwhelming. Homemade is here to help with reader canning recipes, including Elisabeth Laing’s Crunchy Dills, Judy Fowler’s Pickled Sunshine and Wendy Bunio’s Beet and Horseradish Relish. Want to share a recipe with readers? Visit wfp.to/homemade to fill out the submission form.
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