Eatdrink #39 January/February 2013
The LOCAL food & drink magazine for London, Stratford & Southwestern Ontario since 2007
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№ 39 | <strong>January</strong>/<strong>February</strong> <strong>2013</strong> www.eatdrink.ca 35<br />
Pristine Olive Tasting Bar<br />
Pristine Olive Tasting Bar is located at the<br />
corner of Cheapside and Maitland streets,<br />
in the premises that once housed Sullivan’s<br />
Meat Market. There’s plenty of room for two<br />
olive oil bars in town, says owner Jamie<br />
Griffiths, who enjoys walking first-timers<br />
through a thorough tasting process.<br />
Pristine’s supplier, Veronica Foods, is<br />
credited with opening the first stand-alone<br />
olive oil and balsamic tasting bar of its<br />
kind in North America<br />
in 2006. Now supplying<br />
over 300 stores, fifteen<br />
located in Canada, their<br />
fresh extra virgin olive oils,<br />
fused and infused olive<br />
oils, traditional balsamic<br />
vinegars, and naturally<br />
flavoured balsamic vinegars<br />
are all certified for their<br />
ultra-premium quality.<br />
Griffiths’ beautifully<br />
appointed shop offers more<br />
than 40 different olive oils<br />
and balsamic vinegars.<br />
Griffiths is also selling salts,<br />
spices, rubs and jams.<br />
The goal at The Pristine<br />
Olive is to help educate each customer by<br />
allowing them to experience what highquality<br />
olive oil should taste like. The<br />
Pristine Olive Tasting Bar specializes in real,<br />
fresh, certified, ultra-premium extra virgin<br />
olive oils. You will always find the unique<br />
chemistry and harvest/crush date posted on<br />
each of their extra virgin olive oils.<br />
Olive Your Favourites<br />
New to Stratford, Michelle Hern’s Olive<br />
Your Favourites is a speciality shop offering<br />
unique and exceptional quality extra<br />
virgin olive oils from around the world.<br />
Here you will also find balsamic vinegars<br />
from Modena, Italy. There’s even mango,<br />
dark espresso and dark chocolate, and like<br />
London’s<br />
Pristine Olive,<br />
Veronica<br />
Foods is the<br />
sole supplier.<br />
21 York Street, Stratford<br />
519-508-1757<br />
www.oliveyourfavourites.com<br />
Sample and<br />
taste the<br />
The<br />
Pristine<br />
live<br />
Tasting Bar<br />
462 Cheapside Street, London<br />
519 433 4444<br />
www.thepristineolive.com<br />
many varieties they offer, and make a note<br />
of your favourites, then bottle and seal your<br />
choices on-site.<br />
Photo by Jamie Drummond
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