Soup-Splash – 5th Edition / Soupe-Splash – 5e édition
Restaurateurs are preparing their maple-inspired soups!
Presented as part of the Maple Sugar Festival, the Vanier Museopark invites you to the 5th edition of the Soup-Splash, a competition that will determine which restaurateur has prepared the best maple-inspired soup!
Participants will be able to taste soups prepared by the following restaurants: Bistro St-Jacques, Algonquin College (Food and Beverage Operation), Gourmet Express, Piccolo Grande, Epicuria, La Favorita, Coconut Lagoon as well as three other restaurants that will be revealed shortly.
This year’s selection committee is composed of last year’s winners, chef Éric Patenaude from Todric’s (Prize of the Public) and chef Jean-Claude Chartrand of L’Orée du Bois (Prize of the Judges), Pierre Jury and Gay Cook (food and restaurant critics) as well as Philippe Dupuy (chef at the Saint-Ô restaurant).
Tickets are on sale as of today at the Vanier Museopark. The Soup-Splash is one of the most popular events of the Maple Sugar Festival! Musical performance, door prizes and much moreare planned for this souperb evening!
Les restaurateurs préparent leurs soupes inspirées de l’érable!
C’est dans le cadre du Festival des Sucres que nous aimerions vous informer que le Muséoparc Vanier vous invite à la 5e édition de la soirée Soupe-Splash, une compétition qui déterminera quel restaurateur cuisinera la meilleure soupe inspirée de l’érable.
En liste cette année, vous pourrez déguster les soupes des restaurants suivants: Bistro St-Jacques, Collège Algonquin (Département des aliments et boissons), Gourmet Express, Piccolo Grande, Epicuria, La Favorita, Coconut Lagoon ainsi que trois autres restaurants qui seront dévoilés bientôt.
Le comité de sélection cette année se compose des gagnants de l’année dernière, soit le chef Éric Patenaude de Todric’s (Prix du public) et le chef Jean-Claude Chartrand de l’Orée du Bois (Prix des juges), Pierre Jury et Gay Cook (chroniqueurs pour la section restaurants et alimentation) et Philippe Dupuy (chef cuisinier au restaurant Le Saint-Ô).
Les billets sont en vente dès aujourd’hui au Muséoparc Vanier. Faites-vite, la soirée du Soupe-Splash est un des événements les plus populaires du Festival des Sucres! Animation musicale, prix de présence et plus encore sont au menu pour cette souperbe soirée!
Warm days get sap flowing for tapping season
Michelle Nash, YourOttawaRegion
While the maple sugar festival at Richelieu Park is still almost a month a way, organizers tapped the maple trees as temperatures rose last week.
One of the only urban maple sugar shacks in Canada, the Sugar Shack at Richelieu Park taps about 800 trees in the park. The annual sugar festival runs at the end of March. The recent rise in temperatures, which led to the cancellation of some Winterlude, made for the perfect flow of sap, so organizers at the Sugar Shack decided to collect the watery substance and make maple sugar in preparation for the festival.
“There is no other urban sugar shack in Canada, maybe in the world. This is a unique festival in the heart of Vanier,” Richer said.
Full story on the YourOttawaRegion website: Warm days get sap flowing for tapping season
Maple Sugar Festival Enters Final Weekend
Ottawa East EMC
By Desmond Devoy
EMC Events – Plenty of cool Franco-Ontarien music will take the place of snow at this year’s Maple Sugar Festival in Vanier’s Richelieu Park, which runs until Sunday, April 18.
This year, the Vanier-based Association des Professionels de la Chanson et de la Musique (APCM) will be celebrating its 20th anniversary representing Francophone musicians and singers in Ontario, and the western provinces.
Jean-Marc Lalonde will put on a bilingual show, while Louis Phillipe Robillard’s show will feature three English songs. Louis Racine’s show will be mostly in French, but the APCM’s founder, Donal Poliquin, who has had quite the international career in Europe, will be taking to the stage this weekend as well.
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