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Lethbridge is filled to the brim with incredible local restaurants using ingredients produced by our rural producers. Discover everywhere carrying and using local producers the city below!
Italian Table
Lethbridge’s Italian Table is the premier restaurant for authentic Italian cuisine using local ingredients. Located in the Sandman Signature Lethbridge Lodge, the largest hotel and conference center south of Calgary, Italian Table serves a chef-inspired food menu that satisfies any palate.
Italian Table is deeply committed to the local community and embraces its social responsibility in as many ways as possible. Supporting local producers and service providers is at the center of their decision-making process. They believe the education of their team and individual needs will ultimately ensure their success.
Umami Shop
Umami Shop is a world grocery boutique realized through years of food knowledge and a desire to provide an alternative eating lifestyle through world cuisine. By providing you with choice ingredients, flavourful recipes, and simple instructions, we help you to discover your fifth taste, and a different way of cooking without changing yours.
Our vision at Umami Shop is to provide the world with a higher quality of
life through food exploration. We consistently offer ingredients of the highest quality to our customers in our grocery, kitchen, and deli. We strive to offer delicious foods that are local, environmentally conscious, reputable, and safe. Umami Shop offers it all at fair prices.
Through traditional and fusion cuisine from around the world, we want to continuously inspire everyone around us. There will always be new recipes to try, and we’ll make them as accessible as possible.
Our Umami Sauces are also carried by Asian Supermarket. Some local businesses that we source products from are Vital Green Farms, Wise Farms, Urban Micros, and Leffers Brothers.
Telegraph Taphouse
Built to house Lethbridge’s original telegraph office, the old telegraph building has been home to connections since 1937. It connected WWII soldiers with loved ones at home and connected businesses with the outside world.
The building now houses Telegraph Taphouse, featuring a cross-cultural menu with locally-sourced ingredients and craft beers and whiskeys worldwide.
Telegraph is also a huge supporter of our rural producers, with ingredients from outside of city limits made by local producers in almost every dish! whether its local beef from benchmark Angus, or delicious cheese from crystal springs, its in the recipe for the food at Telegraph Taphouse! If you're outside of town though, cattleman's chophouse is owned and managed by the same person, and boast the same level of fresh local ingredients.
Water Tower Grill & Bar
Perched high in the sky above Lethbridge, the Water Tower Grill and Bar offers a one-of-a-kind, panoramic view of the city – and front-row seats to southern Alberta’s brilliant prairie sunsets. Along with the view, they serve internationally inspired, casual cuisine made from local ingredients in a fun, stylish atmosphere.
From hand-crafted drinks at Cocktail Hour to a romantic evening out or a relaxed lunch with the family, the Water Tower is your home for food, drinks, and a view unlike anywhere else in the city.
Herbal Apothecary
Tony and Cami first started their business back in the spring of 2020. As a result of the pandemic, they had recently lost their jobs and needed to make lemonade out of lemons! It all started with microgreens. Cami and Tony bought microgreen seeds online, seeded a few trays in their living room, made up a brochure and started pounding the pavement.
In addition to growing microgreens, they've also grown their space; Cami and Tony soon came up with some new product lines, including herbal teas, wellness soaps and finishing salts; all of which included microgreens or mushrooms! Come summertime, they decided to get a booth at farmer’s markets and handed out samples like crazy. As such, Herbal Apothecary was born.
Spectrum Ale Works
Spectrum Ale Works is a microbrewery committed to producing quality craft beer using the best ingredients. They brew fresh, friendly beer handcrafted by true beer lovers. Owner Darrell Harris had been homebrewing for over 20 years before his wife opened their taproom.
with such a wide "Spectrum" of a selection of classic to creative brews, its no wonder the are part of the Highway 3 Ale Trail! Their commitment is to please the palate of both the beer novice and the connoisseur. They have a vast selection of core beers (including an ESB and a Hybrid IPA) and rotating seasonal, so there is always a beer for every palate. You won’t find your typical taproom snacks here - try some spring rolls or samosas to pair with your beer.
Theoretically Brewing
Theoretically Brewing Co. is the brainchild of co-owners Kel Baird and Kris Fischer; focused on locally sourced, sustainably-produced beer. This duo and their team of miscreant brewers embarked on opening a brewery in 2015.
Kel, the resident beer historian, is often found at the brewery and other community events, sharing her in-depth knowledge of brewing processes, chemistry and microbiology. Brewmaster Kris works at the University of Lethbridge as a Chemistry Instructor, teaching the upcoming generations of (potentially-beer-brewing?) chemists; or behind the scenes at the brewery working on concocting new flavours.
Theoretically brewing has been putting lethbridge brews on the map, including putting themselves on the map of the Highway 3 Ale Trail! Not to mention,Theoretically Brewing is becoming one of the first solar-powered breweries in Alberta. Theoretically Brewing is actively working towards building a zero-waste facility.
Learn more about all the amazing producers with our Food Tour Producers Page! From just outside city limits, these products are featured and used at all of the amazing restaurants on our food tour! From the delicious dishes at local Lethbridge restaurants, back to the soil where the veggies grow, you can track all your food back to its origin on your Southern Alberta Food Tour with Lethbridge Producers!
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