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Winnipeg food truck poutine: Mike Green PEG Beer Co.: Mike Peters Peasant Cookery: Jason Halstead Culinary Guide: Winnipeg on a Plate Winnipeg is home to over 1,100 restaurants and 100 languages, so it should come as little surprise to hear that our culinary scene is rather worldly. Our hole in the wall restaurants, which line streets like Sargent Avenue, Pembina Highway, Chinatown, and the West End, were once the most-celebrated aspect of our culinary scene, and to this day you can still get (for a really reasonable price) excellent Vietnamese, Cantonese, Thai, Laotian, Ukrainian and Portuguese food at smaller rooms throughout the city. But now, the main thing making waves on the local scene — along with some headlines in national and international papers and magazines — is Winnipeg's trendy new chef-driven restaurants, where farm to table, sustainable and handcrafted is often the norm, on plates that are all Instagram friendly. Throughout neighbourhoods like River Heights, Corydon, Osborne Village, downtown, Sherbrook Street and the Exchange District you'll find small plate and share plate restaurants, tapas bars, and Neapolitan pizza joints where the crust is so good it brings a tear to your eye. In the centre of the city, stylish modern European style cafes have sprung up where the wine and beer options are as diverse as the selection of artisanal beans, while our very own microbreweries are now boasting their own taprooms. Plus, there's no shortage of craft-cocktail bars while the majority of Winnipeg's restaurants flaunt sunny patios that are ideal for people watching. Throughout summer, all along Broadway and sprinkled throughout parts of downtown you'll find over 50 food trucks with menus ranging from Caribbean, to wood-fired pizza, to gourmet tater tots (seriously, so good), to exceptional sushi from one of Winnipeg's best Japanese restaurants. In fact on our culinary website, PegCityGrub.com, the most-popular articles year after year are our annual food truck guides, as people just can't get enough of these meals on wheels. Like Winnipeg itself, the most celebrated side of our culinary world comes courtesy of our unique and, shall we say daring offerings? In the New York Times, travel writer Elaine Glusac marvelled at the dinner she was served the previous winter at RAW:almond, an annual pop-up restaurant (and national award-winning tourism endeavour) where haute five-course meals are served in a stylish tent on the frozen ice of the Assiniboine River. Numerous Winnipeg restaurants have also been named to Canada's "best of" lists. 2015 saw enRoute — Air Canada's inflight magazine, which has become a standard bearer for Canadian cuisine — proclaim Winnipeg as "Canada's most overlooked food destination," while Enoteca, a wine bar in River Heights was named as one of the 10 best new restaurants in Canada for 2016. For more on Winnipeg's excellent dining scene check out our culinary website pegcitygrub.com, which is full of restaurant stories and reviews. www.tourismwinnipeg.com 9 WELCOME TO WINNIPEG ITINERARIES

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