Best Eats Ontario East

12/24/2024

Wishing you and yours an enjoyable and meaningful holiday season 🎄🕎 , and health & happiness for 2025 🙏😊

Les

11/24/2024

🎄 Calling all local food lovers! 🍽️

We want YOU to share your absolute favorite local food gifts right here! ✨

👉 Drop your top local food gift recommendations in the comments
👉 Tell us WHY they're so special
👉 Share your local food heroes and hidden culinary gems 🌟

The TOP community faves will be FEATURED on Best Eats Ontario East! 📸

The more you comment, like, and share this post, the higher chance your local food heroes get some AMAZING free exposure! 🔥

TAG local food makers, small businesses, and fellow foodies who need to see this! 👥

Let's celebrate and share Eastern Ontario's incredible food community together! 🍁🥘

10/10/2024

What a lovely addition to our neighbourhood 😍
Salt of the Earth Farm - Kingston, Ontario
Open Wednesday to Saturday 10-5pm for October 🍂

10/10/2024

https://www.kingstonist.com/news/best-places-to-pick-fresh-apples-and-pumpkins-in-the-kingston-area-2024/

(Kingston, Ontario) In the Kingston area, apple or pumpkin picking is a great fall activity. Knowing exactly where your produce comes from, and supporting a family farm in the process, is really easy to do.

09/27/2024

$2 for a slice of Atomica's amazing pizza .. wow !

09/27/2024

https://downtownkingston.ca/blogs/food-drink/el-gringo-tacos?mc_cid=168a89c3f2&mc_eid=384a62f432

Knock for Tac': El Gr**go Tacos Brings Street-Style Taqueria Experience to Downtown Kingston By Rosalyn Gambhir If you're strolling through downtown Kingston and suddenly catch a scent of smoky, spiced meat sizzling on the grill, don't worry - you've just discovered El Gr**go Tacos! Tucked behind an...

09/13/2024

Disgusting or Delicious? 🤢 😲 🤤 Rate These 16 CNE Foods...

Which "unusual" CNE food would you try? Which did you try and how was it?

Lobster Ice Cream
Chopped Pigtails
Mac & Cheetos Popsicle
4 Pound Taco
Deep Fried Mars Bars
Apple Cheesecake Poutine
Fried Chicken Coated In Cereal and Snacks
2 Foot Taco
Corn Dipped in Strawberry
Krispy Kreme Donut Burger
Pull'd Pork in Glazed Apple Fritter
Krispy Kreme Blueberry Chicken
And last but not least, Deep Fried Butter !

Food lovers ! A fun look at the incredible restaurants, food trucks, patios, stores and farms in Eastern Ontario. Kingston, Gananoque, Brockville, Cornwall, Napanee, Belleville, Picton, Trenton, Cobourg, Westport, Perth, Smiths Falls and in between.

09/07/2024

09/06/2024

This summer we’ve continued focusing on our mission of building capacity and leadership in Community Kitchens. We all have our own food stories, and food often plays a role in many of our memories. Community Kitchens recently asked participants at Open Kitchen to share some of their favourite recipes growing up.

For Cheryl Handa, Sunday dinners with her family were so special and she generously agreed to lead a workshop with us so that we could make two of her grandmother’s recipes: her homestyle shepherd’s pie and homemade date squares.
Cooking with Cheryl was like being welcomed into her kitchen at home. She warmly invited us into sharing her family traditions and recipes and it was obvious to all that these dishes were filled with love and belonging. Cheryl made participants of all ages feel welcome and included. It was an absolute joy to sit around a table together to share a healthy and comforting home cooked meal and the date squares at the end were the perfect sweet treat to wrap up a memorable day. Thanks so much for sharing with us Cheryl!

What is your favourite meal you enjoyed when growing up? Feel free to let us know and send a picture to [email protected] so we can share it with the community!

09/06/2024

09/06/2024

A new poll from Food Banks Canada found that 35 per cent of Canadians are feeling financially worse off than they did three months ago amid a wave of increased demands for food banks. Read here: https://tr.ee/fcMEJNrRYJ.

09/06/2024

Incomes are not keeping pace with expenses, causing more and more people to struggle to stay afloat. Ontarians are telling us they can’t keep up with the rising cost of living.

Feed Ontario is calling on the government to improve social assistance, invest in affordable housing, and build a stronger workforce. By addressing the root causes of poverty, together we can work to solve the challenges that so many people in our province are facing.

Find out more and sign our petition on our website: www.feedontario.ca/stayafloat

09/06/2024

09/06/2024

09/06/2024

Today is a bittersweet day. ||

It is our first day without our Hil.

Hilary started with us here at The Pig on August 20th, 1983. We’ve been lucky enough to share 42 of our 45 years with her.

To say she leaves a hole would be an understatement. She has served thousands and thousands of our customers, made friendships with many of our regulars, has been there in support of other staff members countless times. She is someone who would literally give you the lace shirt off her back if you needed it.

As every new staff member comes through the doors of this old barn, be it front of house or back, Hilary has had an impact. She has trained our new generation of servers, and she has also trained our line cooks to listen out for, “Anything for Hil?” as she sticks her head in the kitchen door.

The stories she tells from serving through the 80s, the 90s, the 00s, the 10s and now the 20s can get everyone laughing. Her loving memories of Zal and Rose have kept them alive for all of us. She watched Zoe grow up in the industry and loves her fiercely. Our history is so woven in with hers, she’s like one of the limestone bricks that holds this whole place together.

But today is also a sweet one. Because today Hilary is celebrating her first day of retirement.

No doubt she’ll be moving furniture or chopping wood…taking it easy like she normally does.

Oh Hil, how we will miss you. For all the memories you’ve given us, all we can say is “Thanks Hun.”