LCBO Food & Drink Summer 2019

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Hamilton southernontario Hamilton was one of the first cities in the province to embrace the mobile street food movement, with eight licensed food-truck areas in parks and nearly 300 food-truck-friendly events a year. Celebrate Canada Day with Beavertails or Jonny Blonde’s Maple Bacon Butter

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Winning Wednesdays: Dinner with a View at Sam Lawrence Park, with trucks like Gorilla Cheese and Jonny Blonde catering to the crowd while local elec- tronic music group Hnrsound spins tunes. Canadiana alert: Gorilla Cheese’s Zesty Mordant is an ode to the Trailer Park Boys that features zesty Dorito chips with jalapeño. Pairing potential: Watch for trucks at events with local breweries like Collective Arts Brewing, MERIT Brewing Company and Shawn & Ed Brewing. Gorilla Cheese Canada’s first grilled cheese food truck uses local, high- quality ingredients to create sandwiches like The Lumber- jack, an ode to Canada with oozing medium-aged cheddar, bacon, Granny Smith apple and maple syrup stuffed between thick slices of crisp griddled bread. INSIDER DISH

(sewhungry.com), a rally with a beer garden, music stage and a kid’s zone. Year round, Food Truck Alley, an installation on Aberdeen Avenue east of Longwood Drive, features the area’s favourite vendors along with picnic tables and plenty of free parking.

Tarts, along with family-friendly activities and fireworks displays at Bayfront and Pier 4 parks. Crowd-drawing Supercrawl is a three-day arts and music festival in mid-September that stretches along James Street North. Every May, trucks converge on Ottawa Street for Sew Hungry

Jonny Blonde Cooking from scratch using the area’s finest products, this truck is best known for its fire-grilled meats (Blonde was head chef at Cumbrae’s in Toronto). The Peachy Blonde tops made-to- order flatbread with grilled hormone-free chicken, brie, alfalfa sprouts and red pepper, plus Niagara peach chutney and basil aïoli.

The Salted Pig Ltd. Pork is the star, with everything on this little piggy’s menu either smoked, grilled, pulled or cured. The Whole Hog makes mouths squeal: a pork patty, maple bacon, peameal bacon, pulled pork, Swiss cheese, arugula and garlic aïoli between two fluffy pancakes.

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JONNY BLONDE PHOTO: MARJONNEKE GRECH

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