Along with All Points West and the Victoria ICA Folk Fest, I’m offering a couple of fantastic and delicious prizes in a contest which closes at 6pm, Friday, June 10th.
We want to hear about your favourite folk festival food memories. Is it the Beavertails, those little tiny donuts, or the fantastic picnic lunch you made to bring to the festival?
We have two great prizes:
#1: 1 pair FolkFest admission passes
Dinner and dessert for two on the World Feast Stage (July 6)
(Dinner prepared by Simon Manvell, Dock 503; dessert by Candace
Hartley, Dunsmuir Lodge.)
Return transportation to Vancouver Island for car and 2
passengers courtesy BC Ferries
2 nights accommodation for 2 at The Victoria Marriott Inner
Harbour (July 6 & 7)
*credit card required for incidentals
Buffet breakfast for two at The Victoria Marriott Inner Harbour
#2: 1 pair FolkFest admission passes
Dinner and dessert for two on the World Feast Stage (July 2)
(Dinner prepared by James Barber, The Urban Peasant, and Bill Jones, Deerholme Farm; Dessert prepared by Alberto Pozzolo and Janet Cochrane of the Italian Bakery.)
Click on ‘Comments’ at the bottom of this page to enter.(and please make sure you mention where you are writing from, so I can pick an out of town winner for the ferry tickets and hotel) Once again, contest closes Friday, June 10th, and the winners will be picked at random from all the entries. Good luck!
Nothing can come close to the FolkFest langos! I remember having them at the Prater Fair in Vienna as a child and was thrilled to find them at the Folk Festival. (And we get them every year!)
The yummy tiny donuts are always my favourites. They’re the Best!
Well, let me start by saying it was raining. As the line-up grew longer the rain fell harder, I was waiting in line to attend the folk fest and all you could smell was the food. I remember having a delicious french fry hot from the cook shack and it certainly hit the spot.
Beavertails remind me of the ones at Winterlude. They’re our family’s favourites.
I have never been to one, but I am looking forward to going. It sounds like a lot of fun to me. A lot of things I like all happening. Great
I live on the island and LOVE Folkfest@!
Just wanted to share our family’s tradition of filling our picnic basket with yummy veggie paninis every year; spinach, roasted red peppers, provalone cheese and anything else we have in the fridge the day before, it seems to make the sun sweeter or the rain not so bad!!
It is always the mini-donuts!
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My favorite Folk Fest Feast is Greek Day in Vancouver, B.C. where certain streets are closed off to traffic and opened to pedestrians only to saunter down them and partake in all the delicious foods that the aromatic wafting smells are coming from. The mood is festive with music and there is so much to see. My favorite Greek foods are to have the lamb souvlaki, with that tasty Greek feta salad, a sip of a red full bodied Greek wine, followed by the decadent dessert honey-sweet dessert… baklava!
Having arrived in Victoria last summer from Ontario, this will be our first Folkfest. We moved to the island from Ottawa where we’ve enjoyed many music festivals over the years.
One favourite food was the ‘Alligator on a Stick’ that we encountered one year at Bluesfest.
Our youngest son was about 6 at the time, and being hungry he decided that Alligator sounded appealing. OOH-WEE! The Cajun chef served up four skewers of this spicy succulent meat and we were hooked. (Kind of tastes like chicken).
Since then any form of kebab is affectionately referred to by our family as ‘Alligator on a Stick’.
I’ve been going to FolkFest since the seventies and while I enjoy sampling all the delicious foods, my favorite has to be the spicy treats from the East Indian kiosk. We moved ‘up-island’ to Black Creek in 1990, but still make the trip down to FolkFest every year.
Folkfest is a summer highlight for me – especially those langos!
I live in Vancouver, hence my favourite folk fest food memory hails from the Vancouver Folk Fest.
Have you ever had a Pavlova so dreamy that it made you feel ethereal? I did, and no there weren’t any angels, or angelic like singers, singing in the background. However there were heavenly murmurs of appreciation emitting from my vocal cords. I savoured every scrumptious bite. This delicacy imprinted itself upon my brain, imploring me to return to the festival the following year to seek my slice of Nirvana. Unfortunatley my festival experience was henceforth marred; I left brokenhearted as the vendor didn’t return. Perhaps the vendor moved to Victoria to share her glorious creation with our queenly capital?
To choose just one highlight would be impossible!
So here are two:
The To Die For Chocolate Cake @ the Jewish Community Centre’s booth lives up to it’s name.
The Persian ice cream is a close second for desserts.
Victoria resident
I live in Calgary but my favourite place to visit is Victoria.
We had lilac festival last weekend which has become too big and popular to enjoy. My local favourite is also the Greek festival with the traditional food and dancing. A fresh experience with a folk fest would be so cool.
Wow how does one pick a favourite!
The last few years I head first to the South African grill for their spicy sausages.
Then I enjoy Rosie’s Chocolate Cake at the Jewish Community Centre. But my family won’t leave until we’ve had a hot sugared langos.
Victoria resident
I have enjoyed everything from the Boer saugage to the Chinese food to the langos and the lox and bagel but my favourite has to be the fellowship that FolkFest provides to all of us.
Victoria Resident
My favourite food festival memory is of the town chowders that our little prairie town held each fall. The chowder was a fundraiser for the church. Everyone donated vegetables and meat which was finely chopped and thrown into great iron cauldrons that were stirred for hours by the town fathers (my father being one). The aroma hovered over the village all afternoon torturing the newly back-to-school kids. In the evening, all the locals sampled the many donated pies and cakes, but mainly they filled up on that humble communal stew, the chowder. Sunset would fall on sated appetites and a warm sense of community well-being.
Being from Edmonton, I must say that the Edmonton Folk Fest (without too much bias)is one of the best in the world! There’s nothing like a warm August night, sitting high on the hillside, with the lights of downtown Edmonton twinkling in across the river from you, while the music floats up from the stage below. The Folk Fest is always a wonderful experience, but always better with the buffet of tasty delights offered – Thai, Japanese, Ukrainian, Malaysian , Italian and Greek to name a few as Edmontonians love to eat and with a five days of international folk music guests, Edmontonians have the opportunity to sample music and food from several countries – a chance to travel the world without leaving home. My particular favourites are Chicken Satay, or a juicy barbequed Buffalo Burger topped with fried onions or Perogies BBQ’d Garlic Sausage with sour cream or Calamari – mmm so good!
I am from Powell River on the Sunshine Coast. We host the annual Sunshine Folk Fest. This is a multicultural arts festival and where the enjoyment of food connects us all. I stand in line every year for the barbequed Indonesian pork satay. The marinade is made and sold by a local woman, Diana Woods. I would love to attend the Victoria Folk Fest as it sounds like a gastronomic paradise. To sample the luscious food flavours from around the world
would be an unforgettable experience.
I live in Powell River and for several years we moved our daughter to Edmonton to attend U 0f A and always seemed to be in time for the folk fest. We have many wonderful memories of the multi cultural music and food.Buffalo Burgers were always a favourite as was the selection of Greek food. I love folk music and my stomach loves food so I am thinking that being able to attend the festival in Victoria would be a wonderful experience for both of us.
I’ve always packed a picnic lunch for folk fests past, and this is my favourite picnic menu: cold buttermilk fried chicken (with an extra spicy crust); marinated vegetable salad with seasonal produce (last time it was fresh corn kernels, tomato wedges, blanched green beans in a basil vinaigrette); a crusty loaf of bread, preferably sourdough; brownies and bing cherries for dessert (if there’s room after all that food!).