Eatdrink #80 November/December 2019 - The Holiday Issue

22 | November/December 2019
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A Southwest Ontario Journey
Our Local Flavour Guide Expansion
By CHRIS McDONELL
CHATHAM-KENT • ELGIN • HALDIMAND • HURON • LONDON • MIDDLESEX • NORFOLK
OXFORD • PERTH • SARNIA-LAMBTON • STRATFORD • WINDSOR-ESSEX
Local Flavour
SOUTHWEST ONTARIO
CULINARY GUIDE
Restaurants • Specialty Shops & Services • Farmers’ Markets
Craft Beer & Local Wine • Agri-Tourism Attractions
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EXPANDED
EDITION
VOLUME 8
Unlike most of the storiees readers are
accustomed to seeing in this space, the
following is not a journey that anyone can
truly replcate. This is the story about how
our soon-to-be-released Local Flavour guide came to
be. I have sprinkled ads and photos from many of
the businesses represented in the guide throughout
this narrative. If it is not fully obvious, I will state
explicitly that we
are very excited
about this project.
This is an Eatdrink
story at the
moment, but the
guide is the story of
hundreds of hardworking
creative
people, in scores
of businesses that
make Southwest
Ontario a vital
and exciting place
to live in. We’re
thankful for the opportunity this has created to work with
such an illustrious group.
Change is never easy, nor without risk. After publishing
London’s Local Flavour perennially for the better part of a
decade, the Eatdrink
Craft Farmacy, London
team decided to
explore an expansion
of that popular
culinary guide into
a broader territory.
There had been plenty
of positive feedback
from participants
in this annual
undertaking, who
each shared a stake in
putting a high quality
guide together. Tens
of thousands of hard
copies were eagerly
Garlic’s of London, London
The Boombox Bakeshop, London