Food & Drink Fest...Hamilton's Festival with Taste!
101 York Boulevard L8R 3L4 Hamilton, ON, Canada

Join Famous PEOPLE Players Founder, Diane Dupuy CM, for Virtual Happy Hour on Monday, April 19 @ 5pm! Grab your cocktails and prepare to be enchanted by special guest celebrities and Diane’s stories of life, love, and survival. Learn about Famous PEOPLE Players and see the spectacular Dine & Dream Theater! To RSVP, email [email protected], phone 416-532-1137, or visit www.famouspeopleplayers.com.

Today is National #TakeoutDay! Show some local love by supporting a neighbourhood restaurant and ordering takeout!

Happy #NationalBeerDay! Which beer(s) will you be enjoying today? Support local, and give a shoutout!

Happy #NationalCocktailDay!

Get into the #StPatricksDay spirit with a cocktail by Goodridge&Williams Canadian Whisky!

Happy St. Patrick's Day from your friends at Food & Drink Fest! Sláinte

Dear Friends, We want to thank everyone for their support and patience as we navigate these unusual times. We genuinely believe that for the past 13 years Food & Drink Fest has been a gathering place for the community and a showcase of the hospitality and entertainment industry as a whole! ... We’ve attempted to keep this spirit alive by rescheduling the event several times, but with numerous COVID factors out of our control, we have simply run out of time to make this festival reflective of the top-notch event that you and our team expect. The safety and comfort of our guests is top priority, and based on direction from our host and local and provincial health authorities, we have decided to defer Food & Drink Fest in 2020 and get started on 2021. Though we are sad that the 2020 event has not turned out as anticipated, we are excited and reinvigorated for 2021. We can’t wait to welcome you back in the spring. Food and Drink 2021 will return to the normal spring date April 23/24, 2021. Our venue partner, FirstOntario Centre, is in the final stages of their home game schedule for the Hometown OHL Bulldogs, so this may shift 1 week later. We expect this to be finalized in the next 3-4 weeks. Stay tuned! Sincerely, The Food & Drink Fest Team

Brock University’s Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI) is contributing to Niagara’s pandemic efforts thanks to a new partnership with Dillon's Small Batch Distillers. CCOVI donated nearly 5,000 litres of wine to the Beamsville-based distiller, which will be transformed into approximately 1,000 bottles of hand sanitizer for the local community. Debbie Inglis, Director of CCOVI, says collaborating with Dillon’s on this initiative is a win-win.... When guests visit the institute’s wine cellar, they often ask us what we do with our research wine once the projects have ended, Inglis explains. Thanks to this partnership, we can tell them the wine is being given a second life, as well as keeping our community safe and healthy in the process. The distillery began donating small bottles of hand sanitizer to frontline workers at the onset of the pandemic. Demand for the product skyrocketed, which meant the distillery required a larger supply of base alcohol to keep up. Distiller Louis Hinshelwood, who has also been working on the hand sanitizer project, says donations like the one from CCOVI ensure the company has what it needs to produce a safe, quality product. When people found out we were making hand sanitizer, the response was overwhelming and it was really endearing to see the community come together, he says. The relationship that we have with Brock is amazing, and it’s great to see a university step up and provide us with the wine we need to continue making hand sanitizer because every little bit helps.

Only two weeks to go until #NationalBeerLoversDay!

There's something special rolling down the line from Niagara Oast House Brewers!

Get ready for your long weekend with these 11 brand-new local beers & ciders #ONcraftbeer #craftbeer #LCBO http://ow.ly/WUYm50AEvFs

It’s Canada #TakeoutDay! In celebration of Chicken Wing Fest, why not order wings from your favourite restaurant or try somewhere new, and vote for the best wings in Hamilton at www.nationalchickenwingday.com/contest! You could win Red Bull Racing Sunglasses! Don’t forget to send a photo of you enjoying your wings to [email protected], and you’ll be entered into our Chicken Wing Photo Contest for a chance to win a year’s supply of Frank’s Red Hot Sauce!