What is Londonlicious?
● The Londonlicious Festival is a local food festival dedicated to showcasing unique and delicious dining experiences in London, Ontario
● During the run of the festival, local restaurants offer curated prix fixe menus that spotlight new and delicious menu offerings
● The goal of Londonlicious is to support local restaurants, growers, farmers and suppliers and strengthen relationships between local agri-food businesses.
● Under Growing Chefs! Londonlicious is now run as a nonprofit, meaning that 100% of the fees restaurants pay to participate will be reinvested in the marketing of the festival.
**Please contact the venue directly to make your reservation, you will find venue contact information on the Londonlicious website, under “Menus”: http://londonlicious.ca/directory/.
Who is Growing Chefs! Ontario?
● Growing Chefs! Ontario is a registered charity based in London, Ontario. We unite Chefs, growers, educators and community members through integrated food education projects.
● Our mission is to change the way children, youth, families and the community learn about and develop healthy relationships with food.
● We offer a variety of Food Education Projects, that provide hands-on experiential learning opportunities for children, designed to build cooking skills, food literacy and an understanding of food systems.
● Growing Chefs! operates two innovative social enterprises which offsets our overhead and administrative costs.
○ An established hot lunch program, The Beet Café, which last year provided over 55,000 hot and healthy lunches to our school and camp partners.
○ We host a variety of public and private events for adults at out Headquarters at 460 King St. (the old home of The Auberge du Petit Prince Restaurant).