Taste Detours

04/22/2025

We want to share our love of Wellington County by pointing out the culinary links between our rural heritage and our growers and makers of today. This region has deep agricultural roots, so food – fresh, good, local, food – comes naturally to us. We celebrate the power of a full plate, cup, or bowl, to bring people and communities together.

All of our experiences harness the power of story-sharing. At Taste Detours, we aim to celebrate our regional heritage by uncovering the stories found within small towns and mid-sized cities via local flavour — offering the opportunity to learn some little-known lore of the area, and to hear directly from local food and drink purveyors themselves. Unique locales where you have to dig a bit deeper to unearth the true sense of place.

Try us out!

04/16/2025

This is the perfect post to replace my Insta to FB dump. ♥️

04/14/2025

Honoured to be mentioned in Tasty Travels pages by wonderful journo, .

We offered her a real slice of our town, including some of our best flavours:

Come back soon, Katie, and bring some of those lovely with you too! We're here for you all,

03/22/2025

Mmmm, butter 🧈

03/08/2025

Happy International Women’s Day!

02/20/2025

FEWD needs funds fast to meet growing demand in Guelph
Chef Yasi Zorlutuna says they face a $60,000 shortfall for 2025

Community FEWD is a food security program that uses fresh surplus items to create quality meals in partnership with community groups like the Guelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition, SEED and the Guelph Food Bank.

By
Joy Struthers
Guelph Mercury
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Food Equity with Dignity (FEWD), a local food security program, needs funds to keep cooking for the community.

Chef Yasi Zorlutuna said she hopes to get the word out — they need folks to fundraise and do whatever they can to help.

She said FEWD faces a $60,000 shortfall for 2025 and will only be able to sustain their work until March. The demand for FEWD rose 15 per cent in 2024, with 25,000 meals delivered to multiple locations throughout Guelph.

Zorlutuna said after next month she doesn’t know how they will proceed. FEWD has become a critical piece of the food security puzzle in Guelph since she started the program in 2022.

“We work with surplus foods, but I’m a chef, so my operation runs very much like a catering company or a food business,” said Zorlutuna. “Basically, my program was designed to fill the gap in food rescue, to process large quantities of perishable foods quickly.”

Read on in Guelph Mercury Tribune

We offer delicious take-home dinners in Guelph - check below for locations in your neighbourhood. The Menu is posted here the morning of our Dinners.

02/18/2025

While opening day for most Wellington farmers’ markets is still a few months away, there are plenty of options to support their vendors directly. Also, the Guelph Farmers' Market is open year-round and offers a huge variety of foods and locally made items! Discover our farmers' markets www.wellington.ca/tasterealwinter

County of Wellington Elora Farmers' Market Erin Farmers Market Mapleton Farmers' Market Minto Farmers' Market The Rockwood Farmers' Market Wellington North Farmers' Market

02/15/2025

Day 11 of 30 Days of Local Food: Atmosphere cafe + etc.

In what feels like a deluge of franchises and chains independent restaurants and cafes like Atmosphere can be a refuge from corporate food for corporate (and processed food) palates and corporate bottom lines with creative dishes using local food. I visited Atmosphere as part of my Taste Detours local food tour and this jerk chicken wrap, with salad (and that fantastic dressing) stay in my mind.

The pic: Said jerk chicken wrap and salad

Atmosphere cafe + etc: 24 Carden Street Market Square, Guelph

02/10/2025

WHY EAT LOCAL? There are many reasons why someone may choose to eat local food, including benefits to the local economy, creating direct relationships with individuals growing your food, distance from farm to plate and more. What are yours?

For inspiration on ways to eat local this winter (and year-round!), visit www.wellington.ca/tasterealwinter

County of Wellington

02/04/2025

It’s time.

Time to remember how good it feels to break bread with each other.
With family, friends, co-workers, and yes, strangers.

There’s much to mull over.
There will always be much to celebrate too. Connection, a shared experience, where our food and drink comes from, who’s making it…so much.

So come walk, talk, and taste with me and my regional food partners during these next cold winter months. Elora Grand Food Tour is February 22 and it’s sure to warm you right through.

One thing’s for sure, local never tasted so good. Find out more at tastedetours.ca.

02/03/2025

Still embracing this by developing travel experiences that centre the success of local people, businesses and communities.

Tourism that enables residents to thrive in place by showcasing and sharing their amenities with outsiders in way that infuses valued capital into the system. This capital is reinvested back into the system to ensure that core natural and cultural amenities flourish over time.

Thank you for this refreshed and regenerative look at what tourism is (should be), Dr. Nicole Vaugeois.

Taste Detours has always integrated these ideas into our tours, and strives to continue on a path beyond sustainability and towards

02/01/2025

The living-est people order Carefully Curated Picnics in February. This really drives home that belief we have at Taste Detours HQ: We are seasoned Canadians, so we tour all year long.

Now this particular picnic (only partially shown here) may be being enjoyed fireside in the living room, or outside in a snow fort for all we know. What you do with your picnic is yours to tell. Far be it for us to dictate how one should nosh.

I do know that this was an early Valentine’s gift, so pulled out all the stops to make this Food Tour in a basket (or two) an especially lovely offering from many of our food friends.

Do you want to picnic too? 🧺
Let us know,
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Thanks for your input today .ont

01/24/2025

Don’t let time run out.

Time’s running out to savour The Great Canadian Food Trail at The Wooly! 🇨🇦✨

Don’t miss your chance to WIN a $100 gift card to your fave Neighbourhood Group restaurant or a tour & tasting for 4 at Spring Mill Distillery ()! 🥂🎉

You don't want to miss out on:

🥟 Bacon & Cheese Perogies – Cozy vibes in every bite.
🥩 Bison Meatloaf – The ultimate home-cooked comfort.
🍓 Saskatoon Berry Bread Pudding – Warm prairie perfection, topped with ice cream.

Hurry in—January 26 is your last chance to indulge in these Canadian-inspired creations! Don’t let these flavours pass you by.

01/06/2025

Get to Eric the Baker asap!
And stop cancelling orders.

12/24/2024

Full of end of year gratitude for all the amazing flavours, faces, and connections we’ve experienced on our 2024 food and drink tours.

Thanks for breaking bread with me and championing the exceptional local food within .

May you even get a holiday, and if so, that it be filled with peace, goodwill, and plenty of good food.

12/21/2024

The last tour of 2024 started with a fiesta at , a comforting cassoulet at the riotous colour and warmth of , and ended cosy with a bite of the entire dessert menu from .

Thanks as always,

A delightful group of opticians who really saw the value (and joy!) of a progressive dinner. 👓

12/16/2024

12/11/2024