August 5th is Food Day Canada!

It’s time for all of us to come together to celebrate our incredible food, farming, and the people who make it all happen for Food Day Canada. You can celebrate in your backyard or restaurants and shine a light on Canadian cuisine in your region. Food Day Canada encourages you to cook and eat Canadian Food, grown and raised right in our backyard.

Share your stories and pictures with us of your favourite foods, farms, and people. @FoodDayCanada #FoodDayCanada and you could win!

Shop. Cook. Dine. Celebrate. Canadian.

Shop. Visit your local markets, look for ingredients grown close to home, and support our Canadian farmers. Get inspired by the ingredient list carefully curated by our founder, the late Anita Stewart, C.M. Click here

Cook. Check out the many recipes featured by our chefs and partners on our social channels. Visit www.fooddaycanada.ca for hundreds of ideas.

Dine. Visit a restaurant or event near you with Canadian ingredients on the menu. Check out the map and list of our hundreds of restaurants, chefs, and event partners to try a new one or an old classic with your favourite people. Click here

Celebrate. How can you celebrate the great food we enjoy and the incredible people in our Canadian food system, from farms to our tables? Raise a glass, say thanks and cheers!

Our voices come to life from coast to coast online, on social media, and profiled on our website to collectively reach millions. Join in the conversation. Let’s turn it up!

Visit @FoodDayCanada on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter to enter to win one of 10 GRAND PRIZES! Share the news with your friends and family.

With sincere thanks to KitchenAid Canada for their generous support.

The 20th Anniversary was kicked off in style in a community event across the pedestrian bridge in Elora on August 1st.

Many great partners, chefs, VIPs, and community supporters joined in for fantastic food, music and a fun vibe. Here’s a sneak peek!

Let’s shine a light on Canadian cuisine

Over 40 Incredible icons and buildings are being lit up red and white from coast to coast to shine a light on Canadian cuisine and the great people in our food system on August 4th and 5th.

Look for the updated map to find an icon near you. Take a pic and tell people why it’s shining red and white on your social media channels. Don’t see one near you? Shine your lights on your own building!

• Araxi Restaurant and Bar, Whistler, British Columbia
• ARC, Fairmont Waterfront Centre, Vancouver
• Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar, Vancouver
• Burdock & Co, Vancouver
• Chef Mark Filatow, Waterfront Restaurant & Wine Bar, Kelowna
• Clayoquot Wilderness Resort, Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia
• Dosanko, Vancouver
• forage, Vancouver
• From Scratch – A Mountain Kitchen, Fairmont Hot Springs, British Columbia
• Globe@YVR, Fairmont Vancouver Airport, Vancouver
• Heartwood Kitchen Food Outfitter, Ucluelet, British Columbia
• Kindle @ Heather Mountain Lodge, Golden, BC
• L’Abattoir, Vancouver
• Lakehouse Kitchens Cooking School, Kelowna, BC
• Loaf Bakery, Fernie, B.C.
• Locals, Courtenay, British Columbia
• micro bar • bites, Kelowna, British Columbia
• Nimmo Bay Wilderness Resort, Nimmo Bay, British Columbia
• Notch8, Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, BC
• Part and Parcel, Victoria, British Columbia
• pilgrimme Restaurant, Galiano Island, British Columbia
• Pluvio, Ucuelet, British Columbia
• Quaaout Lodge and Talking Rock Golf, Chase, British Columbia
• RauDZ Regional Table, Kelowna, British Columbia
• Spinnakers Gastro Brewpub, Victoria, British Columbia
• Sunny’s – A Modern Diner, Kelowna, British Columbia
• The Fish Counter, Vancouver
• The Lobby Lounge and RawBar at Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel, Vancouver
• The Lookout Restaurant, Okanagan Centre, British Columbia
• The Terrace Restaurant, Kelowna, British Columbia
• The Wickaninnish Inn & The Pointe Restaurant, Tofino, B.C.
• The Wildflower @ Chateau Whistler, Whistler, British Columbia
• Unsung (Coastal) Heroes at Vancouver’s Bluewater Cafe
• Waterfront Wines Restaurant, Kelowna, British Columbia