On February 1st, 2020, La Poutine Week presented by SaputoTM is set to kick off its eighth year in a row, serving up even bigger, better and crazier poutines! Enjoy a cheese, gravy and fries extravaganza from February 1-7, and taste specialty poutines at participating restaurants across the country. Restaurants with their hat in the ring can use the annual week-long competition to showcase their famous dishes and longstanding recipes or toss in new creations. From fried-chicken poutines, seafood and clam chowder poutines, to Pou-tail pastries and other poutine desserts – there’s something for everyone to discover during La Poutine Week 2020!
The largest poutine festival in the world, with over 400 participating restaurants in the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, British Colombia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba, La Poutine Week promises to push the bounds of poutine creativity once again! The week-long event and friendly competition aims to first and foremost celebrate our nation’s greatest delicacy and to provide restaurants an opportunity to be innovative, imaginative, and reach out to new audiences. Meanwhile, die-hard poutine lovers and newcomers to the delicacy alike get the chance to discover new creations, and vote for their favourite dish online. Visit the festival’s official website: LaPoutineWeek.com , to explore participating restaurants near you.
For the second year in a row, La Poutine Week is also giving back to communities across Canada. One dollar for every poutine sold at a participating restaurant during La Poutine Week will go to Anorexia and Bulimia Québec (ANEB), an organization that guarantees free, immediate and specialized help to people with an eating disorder and their loved ones. What’s more, in Winnipeg La Poutine Week will donating one dollar of every participating poutine sold to Agape Table; an organization working towards ending hunger in the Winnipeg community by offering weekday breakfasts and foodbanks twice a week. Find out more about ANEB and Agape Table on their websites; here and here
La Poutine Week was first created by co-founders Na’eem Adam and Thierry Rassam, also of the wildly successful fall food festival Le Burger Week, in 2012. After their success bringing a new kind of national burger festival across Canada, the Montreal entrepreneurs thought what better way than to expand the culinary horizons of Canada than with a poutine- focused festival! La Poutine Week was an instantaneous hit – with over 20,000 poutine-lovers flocking towards 40 participating restaurants across Quebec in the first alone! Now, eight years later, the festival includes six Canadian provinces and over 350,000 participants!
“If you scream poutine, people usually run towards the source of the sound”, says Rassam: “So having a festival revolving around poutine made our work easy and fun. Then of course, we’ve had partners and ambassadors that helped us grow the event in so many cities, making it the biggest poutine celebration in the world, nothing less!”
“What’s amazing about hosting La Poutine Week for so long is how passionate our fans have become”, continues Adam: “The level of seriousness that restaurants and poutine-lovers around Canada have for this fun and delicious festival never ceases to amaze me.”
On February 1st, poutine-lovers across the nation are called upon to get their forks ready and stomachs hungry as they get a chance to discover the countless delicious creations, and vote for their favourite on www.lapoutineweek.com.
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